Skill: Discover Skills

Purpose

Help the Agent identify missing skills for a task and recommend concrete installation steps. This skill discovers candidates and suggests what to install, but does not install or inject skills automatically.

Use Cases

• Initial bootstrap: The Agent starts with only this skill, then recommends which skills to install for the current task.
• On-demand extension: When a task requires a Skill that is not available, suggest the best matches and how to install them.
• Capability discovery: Help users find relevant skills from local indexes or public catalogs.

Behavior

1. Discovery: Prefer local skills/INDEX.md and manifest.json for the capability map. If the user asks for external options and network access is available, search a public catalog (e.g. SkillsMP).
2. Matching: Match the user task to name, description, and tags; select the best 1–3 skills.
3. Recommendation: Explain why each skill matches and whether it is local or external.
4. Installation guidance: Provide the exact install command for each recommended skill (e.g. npx skills add owner/repo --skill name).
5. Confirmation: If the user asks the Agent to install, request explicit confirmation before running any command.

Input & Output

• Input:
  • Description of the current task.
  • Optional: list of already installed skills.
  • Optional: allowed sources (local only vs public catalogs).
• Output:
  • Recommended skills with rationale.
  • Install commands for each recommendation.

Restrictions

• No auto-install: Do not execute install commands without explicit user confirmation.
• No auto-injection: Do not fetch or inject remote SKILL.md content automatically.
• No bulk discovery: Avoid listing large catalogs; return only the top 1–3 matches.

Self-Check

• Relevance: Are the recommendations strongly related to the current task?
• Actionable: Are install commands concrete and correct?
• Consent: Did the Agent avoid running installs without explicit confirmation?

Examples

Example 1: Recommend a local skill

• Scenario: User asks for a standardized README.
• Steps:
  1. Agent checks skills/INDEX.md.
  2. Finds generate-standard-readme.
  3. Recommends it and provides: npx skills add nesnilnehc/ai-cortex --skill generate-standard-readme.

Example 2: Edge case – no local match

• Scenario: The task is niche and no local skill matches.
• Expected: Offer 1–3 external suggestions (if allowed) with install commands, or say “no match found” and ask for clarification. Do not install automatically.

Appendix: Output contract

When this skill produces recommendations, it follows this contract: