skill-grep

A smart skill search engine for agents — discover reusable skills and workflows instantly.

🌐 Try the Web Version: skillgrep.net . Search skills directly in your browser!

🌟 Why Skill Grep?

Finding the right skill shouldn't be harder than building it yourself.

When you need a capability, you shouldn't have to:

• Wonder if a solution already exists
• Manually browse multiple marketplaces
• Guess which skills are actually high-quality

Skill Grep searches across sources using multi-field retrieval and returns ranked recommendations with quality signals (e.g., GitHub stars), so you can quickly find the best option.

🛠️ How It Works

1. You: "I need a skill for CI/CD automation"

2. Skill Grep:
   ├── Builds structured query from your intent
   ├── Calls search API with query fields
   ├── (Optional) Asks one clarification question if needed
   └── Returns 1-3 ranked recommendations

3. You: Select the best match
   └── Skill Grep learns from your feedback

✨ Key Features

🚀 Installation

For Claude Code

You can register this repository as a Claude Code Plugin marketplace by running the following command in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add LittleDinoC/skill-grep

/plugin install skill-grep@skill-grep

Option 1: Via skill manager

npx skills add https://github.com/LittleDinoC/skill-grep --skill skill-grep

Option 2: Manual install

You can download the specific skill folder and place it in your skills directory.

# Navigate to your skills directory (e.g., for OpenClaw)
cd ~/.openclaw/skills 

# Extract only the specific skill folder
npx degit LittleDinoC/skill-grep/skills/skill-grep skill-grep

Note: This installs only the skill-grep package without cloning the entire repository history.

🔍 Usage

The skill activates automatically when you ask your agent to discover, find, or search for skills.

Example Sessions

Simple search:

You: "Find me a skill for git commit conventions"

Skill Grep:
> Searching for skills...

Recommendations:
1. conventional-commits (github/awesome-copilot, 26.8k repo stars ⭐)
   Best for: Structured commit message generation following Conventional Commits specification.
   This skill guides you through creating standardized, descriptive commit messages with a structured XML format. It includes instructions, examples, and validation to ensure your commits follow the Conventional Commits specification.

2. git-commit (github/awesome-copilot, 26.8k repo stars ⭐)
   Best for: Complete commit workflow with intelligent staging
   A more comprehensive option that handles the full git commit workflow: auto-detecting type and scope from changes, generating conventional commit messages from diff, interactive commits with overrides, and intelligent file staging for logical grouping.

Search with clarification:

You: "I need a skill for testing"

Skill Grep:
> I found several testing skills, but they serve different purposes. What type of testing do you need?
   1. Test-Driven Development (TDD) — Write tests first, then implement code to make them pass
   2. Test Generation — Generate comprehensive tests for existing code (multi-language)
   3. Language-Specific Testing — Focused testing for specific languages (Python, C++, etc.)

You: "End-to-end testing"

Skill Grep:
> Refined search...

Recommendations:
1. e2e-testing-patterns (wshobson/agents, 32.3k repo stars ⭐)
   - Fit: Master E2E testing with Playwright and Cypress, flaky test debugging, CI/CD integration.

🎯 Search Behavior

📚 Research & Citation

Skill Grep is the practical extension of our paper Multi-Field Tool Retrieval. While the paper proposes a framework for retrieving tools across multiple metadata fields, this project brings those insights into a functional search engine for AI agents.

If you find this work helpful for your research or projects, please cite our paper:

@misc{tang2026multifieldtoolretrieval,
   title={Multi-Field Tool Retrieval}, 
   author={Yichen Tang and Weihang Su and Yiqun Liu and Qingyao Ai},
   year={2026},
   eprint={2602.05366},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.IR},
   url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05366}, 
}

⚖️ License

Released under the Apache License 2.0.

📋 User Agreement

By using Skill Grep, you agree to our User Agreement.

Data Collection Notice: We collect search interaction data (without involving personal privacy information) to construct public research datasets. This helps advance research in skill retrieval and agent capabilities. See the User Agreement for full details.