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Browse and Evaluate

By MoizIbnYousaf· MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills· 0

Search and compare skills in the catalog before installing them safely.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

    Already have it? Skip ahead.

  2. Paste into Claude Code or into your terminal.
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    This copies the whole skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/browse-and-evaluate-moizibnyousaf/ — the SKILL.md plus any scripts, reference docs, or templates the skill ships with. Safe default: works for every skill.

    Faster alternative (instruction-only skills)

    Skips the clone and grabs only the SKILL.md file. Don't use this if the skill ships Python scripts, reference markdowns, or asset templates — they won't be downloaded and the skill will fail when it tries to load them.

    Quick install (SKILL.md only)
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  3. Restart Claude Code.

    Quit and reopen Claude Code (or any other agent that loads from ~/.claude/skills/). New skills are picked up on startup.

  4. Just ask Claude.

    Skills auto-activate when your request matches the skill's description — no slash command needed. Trigger phrases live in the skill's own frontmatter; you can read them in the “What this skill does” section above.

Prefer to read the source first? Open on GitHub.

When Claude uses it

Use when exploring the ai-agent-skills catalog to find, compare, and evaluate skills before installing. Always use --fields to limit output size and --dry-run before committing to an install.

What this skill does

Browse And Evaluate

Goal

Find the right skill for a task without flooding the context window or installing blindly.

Guardrails

  • Always use --fields on list/search/info to keep output small. Default: --fields name,tier,workArea,description.
  • Always use --dry-run before installing anything.
  • Never install more than 3 skills at once without explicit user confirmation.
  • Prefer --format json in non-interactive pipelines. The CLI defaults to JSON when stdout is not a TTY.
  • Use --limit when browsing large catalogs. Start with --limit 10.

Workflow

  1. Search or browse the catalog.
npx ai-agent-skills search <query> --fields name,tier,workArea,description --limit 10
  1. Get details on a candidate.
npx ai-agent-skills info <skill-name> --fields name,description,tags,collections,installCommands
  1. Preview the skill content.
npx ai-agent-skills preview <skill-name>
  1. Dry-run the install.
npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name> --dry-run
  1. Install only after reviewing the dry-run output.
npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name>

Gotchas

  • The preview command sanitizes skill content to strip prompt injection patterns. If content looks truncated, check if suspicious patterns were removed.
  • Collection installs pull multiple skills. Always --list or --dry-run a collection before installing.
  • Upstream (non-vendored) skills require a network fetch at install time. Use --dry-run to verify the source is reachable.

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