iknowkungfu-discovery

iknowkungfu-discovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from samuelgudi/iknowkungfu. It costs 64 tokens per session (796 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery workflow for finding and installing coding-agent skills from the I Know Kung Fu registry, a catalogue of reusable agent instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the registry, inspect skill files and categories, and install a suitable skill for the host agent.
Why use it?
It helps identify an existing skill for a task before building or installing something manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to search the registry, inspect skill files and categories, and install a suitable skill for the host agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samuelgudi/iknowkungfu/iknowkungfu-discovery
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 samuelgudi/iknowkungfu --skill iknowkungfu-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samuelgudi/iknowkungfu

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 796 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 $0.00064 $0.00796
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00080

Measured 12d ago against content hash ff104ef4a4b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

iknowkungfu-discovery 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 12d 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.

skills/samuelgudi/iknowkungfu-discovery/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

I Know Kung Fu — discovery

Use this skill when the user has explicitly asked you to find, inspect, or install a skill from the I Know Kung Fu registry.

When to use

  • The user says: "is there a skill for X?", "find a skill that does Y", "search the registry for Z", "install the X skill".
  • Before reaching for a third-party tool that may already be packaged as a reviewed skill.

When NOT to use

  • Reflexively, for every task. The user must have asked. Reflexive invocation pollutes session context.

Two paths: MCP (preferred) and CLI

MCP — if iknowkungfu-mcp is registered with your host (Claude Code, Hermes, Codex, Cursor, etc.), you have eight tools without shelling out: search, get_skill, get_skill_file, install_skill, list_categories, list_tags, list_agents, update_registry. Stay in-loop and use these. install_skill writes the skill into the host's canonical skills directory directly.

CLI — if MCP is not wired, fall back to the kfu command:

kfu update                          # refresh registry cache (~/.cache/iknowkungfu/)
kfu search <query>                  # rank candidates
kfu show <author>/<slug>            # inspect one candidate
kfu install <author>/<slug>         # install for the detected host

Query DSL

Both kfu search and the MCP search tool accept a Lucene-style DSL — lean on it, plain keywords degrade fast as the registry grows:

postgres migration                  # plain keywords
tag:rust agent:claude-code          # filter by tag and host
"binary parsing" -status:deprecated # exclude deprecated
(tag:rust OR tag:go) version:>=1.0  # version constraints
NOT requires:env_var:*              # only skills without env-var requirements

Determinism contract: identical (query, registry version) always produces identical result order. Tie-broken deterministically.

The flow

  1. Refresh if the cache might be stale: kfu update (or the MCP update_registry tool).
  2. Search, filtered to the host: kfu search "<terms>" --agent claude-code. Skim the top three to five candidates.
  3. Inspect the strongest match: kfu show <id> — confirm the description's WHEN clause matches the user's task, the requires.commands are available locally, and status is not deprecated.
  4. Install: kfu install <id> (CLI) or install_skill(id, agent) (MCP). Claude Code picks up the new skill in the current session automatically; other hosts may need a reload.
  5. Multi-host environments: if more than one host is detected, pass --agent <host> explicitly, or set IKNOWKUNGFU_DEFAULT_AGENT once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 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. 12d ago First seen · 59 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A ff104ef4a4b1

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iknowkungfu-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository samuelgudi/iknowkungfu (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 796 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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