find-skills

find-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sammcj/agentic-coding. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,300 once invoked), scanned E, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for finding and assessing skills from the open agent-skill ecosystem. It treats a skill like a software dependency that should be reviewed before installation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching for skills that match a task, comparing candidates, reviewing their instructions, and presenting installation options for the user to approve.
Why use it?
It helps identify suitable extensions while making the security and suitability risks clear before anything is installed.

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/sammcj/agentic-coding/find-skills
Any agent
npx skills add sammcj/agentic-coding --skill find-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammcj/agentic-coding

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-skills

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/find-skills.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/find-skills)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/find-skills"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sammcj/agentic-coding/find-skills.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan E 3 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 $0.00074 $0.02300
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01150
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00460
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00230

Measured yesterday against content hash 59602c151f4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade E, and why

find-skills scanned grade E with 3 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/scan_skill.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Instruction-override phrasinghighPrompt injection

Text telling the model to disregard its earlier instructions or safety rules is the shape of a prompt injection, whoever wrote it.

- Instructions to ignore previous instructions or override system prompts

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- `curl | bash`, `wget | sh`, `curl | sh`, or equivalent piped-execution patterns

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- `curl | bash`, `wget | sh`, `curl | sh`, or equivalent piped-execution patterns
Skills_disabled/find-skills/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Skills

This skill helps you search for and evaluate skills from the open agent skills ecosystem, then present your findings to the user so they can make an informed decision about installation.

Security Context

A skill is arbitrary code that runs with your (the agent's) full permissions. This includes filesystem access, network access, and the ability to execute commands. Treat skill discovery the same way you would treat evaluating a new dependency in a software project: search, assess, report findings, and let the human decide.

You must never install a skill without explicit user confirmation. You must never use flags that bypass confirmation prompts (e.g. -y, --yes). Your role is researcher and advisor, not installer.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks "how do I do X" where X might be a common task with an existing skill
  • Says "find a skill for X" or "is there a skill for X"
  • Wants to search for tools, templates, or workflows
  • Mentions they wish they had help with a specific domain

Do NOT proactively suggest installing skills when the user simply asks for help with a task. Help them directly first. Only search for skills if the task is specialised enough that a dedicated skill would meaningfully outperform your general capabilities.

Skills CLI Reference

The Skills CLI (npx skills) is the package manager for the open agent skills ecosystem.

Command Purpose
npx skills find [query] Search for skills by keyword
npx skills add <package> Install a skill (user should run this themselves)
npx skills check Check for updates to installed skills
npx skills update Update installed skills

Browse skills at: https://skills.sh/

Workflow

1. Clarify What the User Needs

Before searching, confirm:

  • The domain (e.g. React, testing, infrastructure)
  • The specific task (e.g. writing integration tests, reviewing PRs)
  • Whether a skill is likely to add value beyond what you can already do

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. yesterday First seen · 228 lines · 74 tokens per session scan E 59602c151f4c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository sammcj/agentic-coding (159 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,300 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it E with 3 findings (instruction-override phrasing, downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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