skill-recommend

A project-aware command that recommends Claude Code skills based on a project's technology and goals rather than installation popularity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a project for suitable skills, refresh the recommendation catalogue, group results by capability or preference, and decide which suggestions to evaluate next.
Why use it?
It helps developers find relevant add-ons and understand why they match, including their trust level and the project details that triggered the recommendation.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/captkernel/skills_curator/skill-recommend
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/captkernel/Skills_Curator

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 311 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9fc40905d730, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-recommend 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/skill-recommend.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Recommend skills for this project

Run the project-aware recommendation engine:

python "$HOME/.claude/skills/skills-curator/scripts/registry.py" --recommend

If $ARGUMENTS contains "refresh", pass --refresh to force a fresh catalog fetch.

How to present the result

Don't just dump the output. Walk the user through it:

  1. Lead with the strongest match — highest score, highest trust tier
  2. Explain why it matched — which project tags triggered it, in plain English ("you're doing scraping, this is for scraping")
  3. Group by type — Capability skills (new abilities) before Preference skills (better defaults)
  4. Flag trust — 🏛️ Official, ✅ High, 🟡 Medium
  5. Offer the next step — "Want me to evaluate this against your project goals?" → triggers /skill-evaluate

Why this differs from npx skills or skills.sh

The skills.sh leaderboard ranks by install counts. This ranks by fit. A skill with 50k installs is a worse match than a skill with 200 installs if those 200 installs were on projects exactly like yours.

Trust tier + tag overlap is the signal we use. If you want raw popularity, --discover is the catalog browser.

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. 2d ago First seen · 31 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 9fc40905d730

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-recommend is a command published in the GitHub repository captkernel/Skills_Curator (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 311 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 2026-08-31.