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Find Skills

Find Skills (find-skills) is a skill by Vercel Labs that lets a coding agent search the open agent skills ecosystem and install a skill when you ask for something it doesn't know how to do yet.

Notes by Lior Pesoa · Updated · Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor

Made by Vercel Labs.

Source: github.com/vercel-labs/skills · MIT license. Everything below is my review: I tested it myself.

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npx skills add vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills

Raw for agents: /library/find-skills.md

Verdict

8/10

My score

Cheap insurance against installing the wrong skill: with it, the agent picked the official, widely used option and flagged a suspicious copy. Without it, the agent picked a niche one.

Tested

Pros

  • Recommended the official Remotion skill (about 654K installs) instead of a niche skill with about 480.
  • Checked security audits and called out a skill whose install count didn't match its 8-star repo.
  • Gave a working install command and a ready-to-use prompt for the video.
  • Almost free to keep installed: about 10% more time and cost on this task.

Cons

  • Leans toward popular, general skills. The niche skill the plain run found was built for screenshots specifically.
  • Install counts and audits come from the skills.sh directory, so it inherits that directory's blind spots.
  • It only helps when you ask for something new. It does nothing for tasks your agent already knows.
Best for
Anyone who installs skills from GitHub and wants a second opinion before running someone else's scripts.
Skip it if
You only use a few skills you already know and trust.

The test

Same task, both runs

I want to make a 15-second promo video for my iPhone app from its App Store screenshots, using my coding agent. Is there an agent skill for that? Find the best option and tell me exactly how to install it. Don't install anything.

Without the skill1.1 min · $0.24
  • Pick: jezweb/claude-skills walkthrough-video (about 480 installs)
  • Backup: remotion-dev/skills
  • Warned that installing runs third-party code
  • Found it by web search and directory pages
With find-skills1.2 min · $0.27
  • Pick: remotion-dev/skills remotion-best-practices (about 654K installs)
  • Add-on: appeeky/aso-skills app-preview-video for App Store specs
  • Checked three security audits for each pick
  • Flagged a copied skill with 52K installs but an 8-star repo

What I found

  • Both runs found real, installable skills and neither installed anything.
  • With the skill, the agent checked the skills.sh leaderboard and security audits first, so it chose the official, widely used option.
  • Without it, the agent chose a skill built for this exact job but with far less use, and listed the official one as a backup.

How I ran it: Claude Code 2.1.306 with Claude Opus, run headless twice with only Claude Code's built-in skills loaded (no user skills, plugins or MCP servers). The second run had find-skills installed in the project and its prompt started with "Use the find-skills skill." Both runs could search the web and run npx skills.

What it does

  • Notices requests like "is there a skill for X" or "how do I do X" where an existing skill might help.
  • Searches for matching skills with npx skills find.
  • Installs the one you pick with npx skills add.
  • Can check installed skills for updates with npx skills check and npx skills update.

When to use it

Keep it installed all the time. It only steps in when you ask for a capability, and it saves you from searching GitHub yourself.

Questions

Who made find-skills?

Vercel Labs. It's part of github.com/vercel-labs/skills, the repo behind the npx skills CLI, under the MIT license.

What is npx skills?

A command-line tool for finding, installing and updating agent skills from GitHub and other sources.

Does it install skills without asking?

It suggests skills and installs the one you choose.