Skill Lookup

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name: Skill Lookup
description: 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 via prompts.chat MCP server.
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name: skill-lookup
description: 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.
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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