resource-scout

A search guide for finding existing Claude Code skills and MCP servers in online marketplaces, code repositories, and registries. MCP servers are connections that let an agent use outside tools or services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a skill for a development task, discover an MCP server for an external service, or compare available resources before implementing one yourself.
Why use it?
It helps avoid building a custom solution when a suitable skill or tool connection already exists. It also provides search sources and a process for narrowing the need before searching.

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/nicepkg/vsync/resource-scout
Any agent
npx skills add nicepkg/vsync --skill resource-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nicepkg/vsync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00091 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured 2d ago against content hash 85e027b9ceca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resource-scout 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to resource-scout — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/resource-scout/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resource Scout

Search and discover existing Claude Code skills and MCP servers before building custom solutions.

Quick Search Strategy

For Skills:

  1. WebSearch: site:skillsmp.com [topic] or claude skill [topic]
  2. Check GitHub: awesome-claude-skills [topic]
  3. Browse: skillhub.club, claudeskills.info

For MCP:

  1. WebSearch: MCP server [tool/service name]
  2. Check: glama.ai/mcp/servers, mcpmarket.com
  3. Official: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers

Skill Search Workflow

Step 1: Define Need

Before searching, clarify:

  • What task needs to be accomplished?
  • What tools/services are involved?
  • Is it a common pattern (git, testing, API) or domain-specific?

Step 2: Search Marketplaces

Primary sources (largest catalogs):

Source URL Best For
SkillsMP skillsmp.com 71000+ skills, long-tail search
SkillHub.club skillhub.club AI-evaluated, quality filter
Claude Skills Hub claudeskills.info UI-friendly browsing

Search patterns:

# On SkillsMP
[domain] skill          → "marketing skill", "database skill"
[framework] claude      → "react claude", "fastapi claude"
[task] automation       → "deployment automation"

Step 3: Search GitHub

Curated lists:

  • github.com/keyuyuan/skillhub-awesome-skills - 精选清单
  • github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-claude-skills - 生态大全
  • github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills - 大量通用技能

Ready-to-use repositories:

  • github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills - Content/Marketing
  • github.com/gked2121/claude-skills - Workflow思维
  • github.com/Microck/ordinary-claude-skills - 超大集合
  • github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills - 结构化

Search command:

# Use WebSearch tool
site:github.com "claude skill" [topic]
site:github.com "SKILL.md" [topic]

Step 4: Evaluate & Install

When skill found:

  1. Check last update date (prefer recent)
  2. Review SKILL.md for quality
  3. Check if has scripts/references
  4. Install with skill-downloader or manual copy

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 166 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 85e027b9ceca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

resource-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository nicepkg/vsync (57 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to resource-scout, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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