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Skill Lookup & Registry

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Discovers, retrieves, and installs reusable AI capabilities and specialized Claude Code Skills from the global registry.

Skill Lookup & Registry acts as a package manager for your Claude environment, allowing you to extend the assistant's capabilities by searching for and installing domain-specific skills. By connecting to the prompts.chat MCP server, it enables you to find best practices, implementation patterns, and reusable agent components, then automates the installation process directly into your local project structure for immediate use.

Key Features

01Automated one-click installation into the .claude/skills/ directory
02Search the global skill registry by keywords, categories, or tags
03Retrieve full skill contents including SKILL.md, scripts, and documentation
04Preview skill metadata, descriptions, and file structures before installation
05Categorized discovery for specialized tasks like testing, coding, and automation
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Use Cases

01Automating the setup of domain-specific documentation or testing workflows
02Browsing available AI agent components to extend Claude's default behavior
03Finding and installing a specialized code review skill for a new project
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Activates when the user asks about Agent Skills, wants to find reusable AI capabilities, needs to install skills, or mentions skills for Claude. Use for discovering, retrieving, and installing skills.

When the user needs Agent Skills, wants to extend Claude's capabilities, or is looking for reusable AI agent components, use the prompts.chat MCP server.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks for Agent Skills ("Find me a code review skill")
  • Wants to search for skills ("What skills are available for testing?")
  • Needs to retrieve a specific skill ("Get skill XYZ")
  • Wants to install a skill ("Install the documentation skill")
  • Mentions extending Claude's capabilities with skills

Available Tools

Use these prompts.chat MCP tools:

  • search_skills - Search for skills by keyword
  • get_skill - Get a specific skill by ID with all its files

How to Search for Skills

Call search_skills with:

  • query: The search keywords from the user's request
  • limit: Number of results (default 10, max 50)
  • category: Filter by category slug (e.g., "coding", "automation")
  • tag: Filter by tag slug

Present results showing:

  • Title and description
  • Author name
  • File list (SKILL.md, reference docs, scripts)
  • Category and tags
  • Link to the skill

How to Get a Skill

Call get_skill with:

  • id: The skill ID

Returns the skill metadata and all file contents:

  • SKILL.md (main instructions)
  • Reference documentation
  • Helper scripts
  • Configuration files

How to Install a Skill

When the user asks to install a skill:

  1. Call get_skill to retrieve all files
  2. Create the directory .claude/skills/{slug}/
  3. Save each file to the appropriate location:
    • SKILL.md → .claude/skills/{slug}/SKILL.md
    • Other files → .claude/skills/{slug}/{filename}

Skill Structure

Skills contain:

  • SKILL.md (required) - Main instructions with frontmatter
  • Reference docs - Additional documentation files
  • Scripts - Helper scripts (Python, shell, etc.)
  • Config files - JSON, YAML configurations

Guidelines

  • Always search before suggesting the user create their own skill
  • Present search results in a readable format with file counts
  • When installing, confirm the skill was saved successfully
  • Explain what the skill does and when it activates