search-skills

search-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielvm-git/bigpowers. It costs 41 tokens per session (804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local search tool for finding the most relevant coding skills from a natural-language request. It searches skill descriptions and keywords rather than using an online AI service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are unsure which skill fits a task, when starting research, or when looking for a skill that can handle a particular job.
Why use it?
It helps choose the right skill when many are available, without returning an unranked list or depending on external search services.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/danielvm-git/bigpowers/search-skills
Any agent
npx skills add danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill search-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for search-skills

README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 804 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 $0.00041 $0.00804
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00402
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00080

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3dccc0862ce4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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.

.cline/skills/search-skills/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story: e09s01

story: e21s01

Search Skills

HARD GATE — Search results must be ranked by relevance. Do NOT return all matches without prioritization. Use skill metadata (phase, purpose, frequency) to rank.

HARD GATE — Do NOT use external embedding APIs or AI-based semantic search. This is a lexical-only index (ADR: zero external dependency).

Lexical search only — no embedding service (ADR: zero external dependency). The index is a flat markdown file (specs/SKILL-SEARCH-INDEX_LATEST.md) built from every SKILL.md's YAML frontmatter — name, description, and key phrases. No vector DB, no API calls, no network dependency.

When to use

  • You're unsure which skill to invoke for a user's request
  • At the start of research-first to find pre-existing skills that might solve the problem
  • When a user asks "is there a skill for X?"
  • Before calling a skill by name, to confirm it's the right one

Pre-flight

  • Does specs/SKILL-SEARCH-INDEX_LATEST.md exist? If not, run bash scripts/build-skill-index.sh.
  • Is the index fresh? Check its timestamp — if > 24 hours old or after any SKILL.md change, regenerate.

Process

  1. Refresh index if stale — Run bash scripts/build-skill-index.sh if specs/SKILL-SEARCH-INDEX_LATEST.md doesn't exist or was modified before the last SKILL.md change.

  2. Search the index — Use ripgrep on the lexical index:

    rg -i "<keywords>" specs/SKILL-SEARCH-INDEX_LATEST.md
    

    The index contains each skill's name, description, phase, and key use-case phrases, so natural language queries work well even without embeddings.

  3. Rank results — Read the top 3 matches. Evaluate by:

    • Exactness — Does the description literally match the user's intent?
    • Phase fit — Is the skill designed for the current lifecycle phase?
    • Trigger phrases — Does the skill's "Use when" section match the situation?
  4. Recommend one skill — Select the single best-matching skill. Provide:

    • The skill name
    • Why it's the best match (citing the description or trigger phrase)
    • What it produces (artifact, dialogue, or state change)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 74 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 3dccc0862ce4

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search-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (163 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 804 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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