Skill Scout

Before you spin up yet another skill from scratch, run this. It searches your local skills, marketplace catalogs, GitHub repos, and the web for anything that already does what you need. Salvaged from a stale community PR by redminwang, it walks through intent capture, multi-source search with grep and gh CLI, vetting for sketchy commands or unmaintained repos, then ranks up to 10 candidates and presents three paths: use as-is, fork and modify, or create fresh. The anti-patterns section is honest about the real problem: we all skip search and rebuild the wheel. Worth keeping in your toolkit if you maintain more than a handful of skills.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add affaan-m/ecc --skill skill-scout --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Skill Scout

Use this skill before creating a new skill. The goal is to avoid duplicating existing community or marketplace work, while still vetting anything external before adoption.

Source: salvaged from stale community PR #1232 by redminwang.

When to Use

The user says "create a skill", "build a skill", "make a skill", or "new skill".
The user asks "is there a skill for X?" or "does a skill exist that does Y?"
The user describes a workflow and you are about to suggest creating a new skill.
The user wants to fork or extend an existing skill.

If the user explicitly says to skip search or create from scratch, acknowledge that and proceed with the requested creation workflow.