find-capability

find-capability is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jasonkneen/lazar. It costs 0 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision process for finding an existing skill, combining several skills, or creating a new one for a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task needs more than simple shell commands and you need to choose the right capability.
Why use it?
It avoids unnecessary new skills and helps the agent reuse procedures that already exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when a task needs more than simple shell commands and you need to choose the right capability.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jasonkneen/lazar/find-capability
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.

Any agent
npx skills add jasonkneen/lazar --skill find-capability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jasonkneen/lazar

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 find-capability

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for find-capability

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 274 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 $0.00000 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00027

Measured 9d ago against content hash b8fe52671e34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-capability 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 9d 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.

src/seed-skills/_meta/find-capability/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

find-capability

Decide whether a capability already exists, can be composed from existing skills, or needs a new skill.

When to use

Whenever a task requires something beyond bare bash one-liners.

How to use

  1. Read the index:

    cat $LAZAR_HOME/skills/INDEX.md
    
  2. If a single skill matches, read it and use it:

    cat $LAZAR_HOME/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
    

    Done.

  3. If multiple existing skills could compose into the answer:

    • Sketch the chain (skill A produces X, skill B consumes X, ...).
    • Run it.
    • If it works AND the chain is non-trivial AND you'd reuse it, document the composition itself as a new skill (invoke create-skill).
  4. If no skill or composition fits:

    Read _meta/create-skill/SKILL.md and author a new skill.

Principle

Reach for existing skills before authoring new ones. The skill library is the agent's memory of "how to do things"; growing it carelessly bloats the index without adding capability.

A useful test: would a human reading INDEX.md a week from now find this skill name self-explanatory and distinct from the others? If not, rename or merge before committing.

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. 9d ago First seen · 40 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b8fe52671e34

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-capability is a skill published in the GitHub repository jasonkneen/lazar (31 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 274 tokens. 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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