skill-lookup_skill

Overview

This skill helps you discover, retrieve, and install reusable AI agent capabilities for Claude and similar agents. It connects to the prompts.chat MCP tools to search available skills, fetch full skill packages, and guide local installation into your agent environment. Use it to extend agent functionality quickly with community-created components.

How this skill works

The skill queries the prompts.chat MCP index to search skills by keywords, category, or tag and returns concise search results with metadata and file counts. When retrieving a specific skill it fetches all files and metadata for that skill. For installation, it provides step-by-step instructions to save the files into the agent's skills directory so the agent can activate the new capability.

When to use it

• When you ask to find or list available agent skills (e.g., "Find a code review skill").
• When you want to retrieve a full skill package by name or ID.
• When you ask to install a skill into your local Claude agent environment.
• When you want to filter skills by category or tag for specific use cases.
• When you need the file list and metadata for a skill before deploying it.

Best practices

• Always run a search before recommending creating a new skill to avoid duplicates.
• Use keyword, category, and tag filters to narrow results and reduce noise.
• Review the skill metadata and file list before installation to confirm intent and dependencies.
• After installation, confirm files were saved to the expected directory and test the skill in a safe environment.
• Keep installed skills in a dedicated skills directory to simplify updates and backups.

Example use cases

• Search for automation skills that wire into CI/CD pipelines and retrieve candidate skills.
• Fetch a documentation-generation skill, inspect its files and helper scripts, then install it locally.
• Install a community prompt collection for code review and run tests to validate outputs.
• Filter skills by the "coding" category to assemble a toolkit for developer assistants.
• Retrieve a specific skill ID provided by a colleague and install it for internal use.