finding-skillslisted
Install: claude install-skill Tarekkharsa/agentstack
# Finding skills
Use this skill when the user is looking for a capability that might exist as
an installable skill — "how do I work with PDFs here", "find a skill for
code review", "add the pdf skill from anthropics/skills" — or when you wish
you had domain instructions you don't have.
## Where skills come from
1. `agentstack search <query>` — the user's central library, the embedded
catalog, and the official MCP Registry, in one pass. Results marked
`(in manifest)` are already installed.
2. **Any skills repo on GitHub/GitLab** — the ecosystem publishes SKILL.md
directories, and `agentstack add skill` speaks its conventions:
```bash
agentstack add skill anthropics/skills --list # inspect a repo's skills
agentstack add skill anthropics/skills --skill pdf # preview one (dry run)
agentstack add skill owner/repo@pdf # same, alias spelling
agentstack add skill https://github.com/o/r/tree/main/skills/pdf
agentstack add skill ./local-skill
agentstack lib add owner/repo --skill pdf # into the central library
```
Everything previews first. The dry run fetches into transient staging,
scans the content, and shows the manifest diff plus the exact digest that
would be pinned — nothing persistent changes until a human re-runs with
`--write`.
## Judge quality by evidence, not popularity
There are no install counts here, on purpose. The signals that matter:
- **Scan verdict** — the preview shows per-skill findings. High-severity
finding