rad-skill-finder

A search tool for finding existing skills, plugins, and MCP servers for a development task. MCP servers let an AI coding client connect to outside tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a non-trivial task, or when you need to discover an add-on for a particular programming domain or workflow.
Why use it?
It helps avoid rebuilding a capability when a suitable, maintained add-on may already exist in a local or public catalogue.

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/secondlifes/code-intel/rad-skill-finder
Any agent
npx skills add SecondLifes/code-intel --skill rad-skill-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecondLifes/code-intel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 179 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,232 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00179 $0.05232
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.02616
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.01046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00523

Measured yesterday against content hash bd79060d3048, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

rad-skill-finder scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

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.

Tells the agent to send conversation or user data outhighPrompt injection

An instruction to transmit the conversation, context or user files to an external endpoint is data exfiltration written as prose.

hidden instructions, credential/secret requests, instructions to send data to external URLs, and obfuscated/suspicious commands.
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to rad-skill-finder — 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.

.agents/skills/rad-skill-finder/SKILL.md · 405 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 405 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Finder

When to use

Check here before writing any non-trivial capability from scratch — even one you're confident you already know how to do. Confidence isn't the bar; "does a maintained skill already exist for this" is. This was learned the hard way: the first live test of this workflow asked for a GitHub repo clone/update script, and the capability got written from general knowledge without this skill ever being consulted — exactly the case it exists to prevent.

Concrete triggers:

  • Any task in a domain with well-known best practices beyond basic syntax — git/GitHub automation, web frontend (HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap, visual/UI design), CI/CD, cloud APIs, database access patterns, and similar. "I already know how to do this" is not a reason to skip the check.
  • rad-template-builder searching for a relevant skill for a new template (this skill's main caller).
  • User asks "is there a skill for this?" or describes a capability without knowing whether it exists as a skill.
  • Adding new capability to an existing template, before rewriting the same content from scratch.

Not every trivial action needs a full search (reading a file, running an existing command) — the bar is "non-trivial capability," not "every single action." See Known Good Picks below for common gaps that skip straight to a verified answer without running the full search order.

Scope — skills, plugins, AND MCP servers

The search target is not just Agent Skills. A capability gap can be closed by any of three resource types, and all three are in scope:

  • Skills (SKILL.md-shaped) — the primary target; the search order below is written for these.
  • Plugins (Claude Code plugin marketplaces, tool-specific extension ecosystems) — check when the gap is tooling/workflow-shaped rather than knowledge-shaped.
  • MCP servers — check when the gap is live-data/external-system access (APIs, databases, SaaS products). Sources: the official MCP registry search (search_mcp_registry tool where available), github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers, and mcpservers.org-style directories.

Read the full file on GitHub · 405 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. yesterday First seen · 405 lines · 179 tokens per session scan C bd79060d3048

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rad-skill-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecondLifes/code-intel (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 179 tokens to every session and 5,232 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent to send conversation or user data out). It is 100% identical to rad-skill-finder, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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