browse-and-evaluate
Skill1.1k starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use when exploring the ai-agent-skills catalog to find, compare, and evaluate skills before installing. Always use --fields to limit output size and --dry-run before committing to an install.
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
6 rules. About 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈2
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 16
Always use --fields on list/search/info to keep output small.
- Very specific: line 17
Always use --dry-run before installing anything.
- Distinctive: line 18
Never install more than 3 skills at once without explicit user confirmation.
- Very specific: line 19
Prefer --format json in non-interactive pipelines.
- Very specific: line 20
Use --limit when browsing large catalogs.
- Distinctive: line 24
Search or browse the catalog.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 308,232 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Browse And Evaluate
Goal
Find the right skill for a task without flooding the context window or installing blindly.
Guardrails
- Always use
--fieldson list/search/info to keep output small. Default:--fields name,tier,workArea,description. - Always use
--dry-runbefore installing anything. - Never install more than 3 skills at once without explicit user confirmation.
- Prefer
--format jsonin non-interactive pipelines. The CLI defaults to JSON when stdout is not a TTY. - Use
--limitwhen browsing large catalogs. Start with--limit 10.
Workflow
- Search or browse the catalog.
npx ai-agent-skills search <query> --fields name,tier,workArea,description --limit 10- Get details on a candidate.
npx ai-agent-skills info <skill-name> --fields name,description,tags,collections,installCommands- Preview the skill content.
npx ai-agent-skills preview <skill-name>- Dry-run the install.
npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name> --dry-run- Install only after reviewing the dry-run output.
npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name>Gotchas
- The
previewcommand sanitizes skill content to strip prompt injection patterns. If content looks truncated, check if suspicious patterns were removed. - Collection installs pull multiple skills. Always
--listor--dry-runa collection before installing. - Upstream (non-vendored) skills require a network fetch at install time. Use
--dry-runto verify the source is reachable.
Trending
More talk lately.thin dataabout the whole repository
Who's talking about MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills
- ProSkillsMD/proskills“[Candidate] moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills/skills/backend-development - backend-development”GitHub · Oct 9, 2026
- ProSkillsMD/proskills“[Candidate] moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills/skills/audit-library-health - audit-library-health”GitHub · Oct 9, 2026
- ProSkillsMD/proskills“[Candidate] moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills/skills/ask-questions-if-underspecified - …”GitHub · Oct 9, 2026
- sudosubin/agents.nix“agent-skills.github.moizibnyousaf.ai-agent-skills: init at 4.3.2”GitHub · Sep 30, 2026
The biggest 4 of 4 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.
Other versions2 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 2
- skillcreatorai/Ai-Agent-Skills★ 1.1k100% same
- MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills★ 1.1k100% same
Edited · 0
None found.
Wrote their own version · 0
None found.
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository17 other files it gives its agents.
- ask-questions-if-underspecifiedSkill
- audit-library-healthSkill
- backend-developmentSkill
- best-practicesSkill
- build-workspace-docsSkill
- changelog-generatorSkill
- code-documentationSkill
- content-research-writerSkill
- curate-a-team-librarySkill
- database-designSkill
- install-from-remote-librarySkill
- llm-application-devSkill
- migrate-skills-between-librariesSkill
- review-a-skillSkill
- share-a-librarySkill
- update-installed-skillsSkill
- verification-agentSkill
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Your trail
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