skills-discovery

skills-discovery is a skill for Claude Code from vahidkaargar/it-department-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local search tool for finding available skills and rules on a computer. It is the required starting point when you need a capability but do not know where it is.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search by intent, retrieve one skill’s location and triggers, and find rules or capabilities across the machine.
Why use it?
It prevents you from searching the wrong folders and helps identify the relevant instruction file before you use a skill.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to search by intent, retrieve one skill’s location and triggers, and find rules or capabilities across the machine.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 974 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 $0.00110 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00097

Measured 12d ago against content hash 14a95ac9bf6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-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/skills-discovery/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills discovery — source of truth

Enforced when the opt-in guard hook is installed (see repo docs/hooks.md; treat search-first as mandatory even without it). The hook ~/.claude/hooks/skills-discovery-guard.py runs on every Bash call (PreToolUse) and denies (exit 2) raw enumeration of skill directories — ls/find/tree against ~/.claude/skills, ~/.agents, ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.skills-archive, plugin caches, or bulk find -name SKILL.md / glob-cat of many SKILL.md files. skillfind/rulesfind/build-index.py/skillserve.py are allow-listed by name so the catalog's own tooling still works. This is the STRICT §3 rule (~/.ai/rules.md, propagates into AGENT_RULES.md + CLAUDE.md) — every agent on this machine must comply, not just Claude Code.

Skills may live across many roots on this machine. NEVER enumerate them into context. Search first, read ONE SKILL.md.

Find a skill (any agent with shell access)

skillfind "<intent>"              # ranked top-5, e.g. skillfind "nginx reload"
skillfind "<intent>" --json       # machine-readable (name, path, score, category)
skillfind --get <name>            # one skill: path + triggers
skillfind --category <slug>       # browse one category
rulesfind "<topic>"               # rules (.md/.mdc); --always = per-session token cost

Then: Read the single SKILL.md path returned. Follow it. Done.

  • Hot set pre-listed (~1k tokens): ~/.agents/skills-catalog/CATALOG.md
  • Machine index: ~/.agents/skills-catalog/index.json (query via --json, don't load whole)
  • Archived skills searchable too; restore: mv ~/.skills-archive/<name> ~/.claude/skills/<name>

HTTP API (optional, agents with no shell)

If skillserve.py is running (see repo docs for setup), on http://127.0.0.1:3401 (bind localhost only): /search?q=<intent>&n=5 · /get?name=<skill> (returns full SKILL.md body) · /catalog · /rules?q= · /rules?always=1 · /health.

No shell, no HTTP? (last fallback)

Read ~/.agents/skills-catalog/CATALOG.md (hot set), or grep ~/.agents/skills-catalog/index.json for keywords. Never walk skill dirs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 12d ago First seen · 64 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 14a95ac9bf6b

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skills-discovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository vahidkaargar/it-department-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 974 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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