search-skills

search-skills is a command for Claude Code from athola/skrills. It costs 10 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for finding installed agent skills by name or description using an approximate text search. It can return matching skills, their locations, scores, descriptions, and sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for skills with a query, adjust the match threshold or result limit, search names only, and handle empty or unsuccessful searches.
Why use it?
It helps locate a relevant installed skill when its exact name is unknown.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the skrills plugin — 17 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to search for skills with a query, adjust the match threshold or result limit, search names only, and handle empty or unsuccessful searches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/athola/skrills/search-skills
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/athola/skrills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skrills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 commands.

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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 284 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00010 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured 11d ago against content hash fa8373de64ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-skills scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/skrills/commands/search-skills.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Search Skills

Search installed skills using the skrills MCP server.

Use the mcp__plugin_skrills_skrills__search-skills-fuzzy tool with:

  • query: Search query (required)
  • threshold: Similarity threshold 0.0-1.0 (lower = more results)
  • limit: Maximum results to return
  • include_description: Also search descriptions (default: true)

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  • First argument or quoted string: search query
  • --threshold N or -t N: Similarity threshold (default: 0.3)
  • --limit N or -l N: Max results (default: 10)
  • --name-only: Only search skill names, not descriptions

Report search results including:

  • Skill name and location
  • Match score
  • Brief description
  • Source (Claude, Codex, Copilot)

Handle errors:

  • If query empty: Prompt for search query
  • If no matches found: Suggest broader search or lower threshold
  • If index unavailable: Report and suggest re-indexing
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 33 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A fa8373de64ff

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search-skills is a command published in the GitHub repository athola/skrills (69 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 284 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.