Our review
Generates a markdown catalog of all Claude skills available in the environment.
Strengths
- Discovers skills from multiple sources (personal, project, plugins)
- Automatically extracts name and description from YAML frontmatter
- Generates a sorted and formatted markdown table
- Handles plugin discovery via settings and manifests
Limitations
- Only reads the first 5 lines (frontmatter) of SKILL.md files
- Plugin discovery depends on marketplace structure and may fail if misconfigured
- Catalog is static and does not update information in real time
When you need to inventory all Claude skills for documentation or maintenance.
If you need the full content of skills beyond name and description.
Security analysis
SafeThe skill uses only read-only tools (Glob, Read, Bash restricted to echo, cat, find, ls) to discover and read SKILL.md files and configuration files. It generates a local markdown file with skill metadata, posing no risk of data exfiltration or system modification.
No concerns found
Examples
Generate a catalog of all my Claude skills with their names, descriptions, and locations.Create a SKILLS.md file that lists every available Claude skill from personal, project, and plugin sources.Show me all Claude skills from enabled plugins in a markdown table.name: skill-export description: Export Claude skills. Use to generate documentation of all available Claude Skills. allowed-tools: TodoWrite, Glob, Read, Bash(echo:), Bash(cat:), Bash(find:), Bash(ls:) license: MIT
Skill Export
Generate a comprehensive markdown catalog of all Claude skills available in the environment.
Workflow
Discover Skills from Three Sources
Personal Skills: ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md
- Scan all subdirectories for SKILL.md files
Project Skills: .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md
- Scan all subdirectories relative to current working directory
Plugin Skills: Requires careful multi-step discovery
- Read
~/.claude/settings.jsonto get enabled plugins (format:plugin-name@marketplace-id) - Parse each plugin ID into plugin name and marketplace ID
- Look up marketplace location in
~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json - Read
{marketplaceLocation}/.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonto get the marketplace manifest - Find the specific plugin by name in the manifest's
pluginsarray - Only scan skills listed in that plugin's
skillsarray (do not scan entire marketplace) - For each skill path, read
{marketplaceLocation}/{skillPath}/SKILL.md
Critical: Plugin discovery must be scoped to enabled plugins. Do not scan all skills in a marketplace—only those listed in the specific enabled plugin's manifest entry.
Extract and Format
For each SKILL.md file:
- Parse YAML frontmatter to extract
nameanddescription. - Record location as absolute path to the skill directory (use
dirname()of SKILL.md path)
Critical: Only read the YAML frontmatter, i.e., the top 5 lines, of SKILL.md files.
Generate markdown table:
# Skills
Skills are additional instructions for specific scenarios. Given below is a list of name, description, and location of all available skills.
If a skill is relevant to the task you're performing based on its description, read the SKILL.md file at the location of that skill for additional instructions.
| Name | Description | Location |
|------|-------------|----------|
| skill-name | Description text | /absolute/path/to/skill |
Formatting: escape pipe characters (\|), remove newlines from descriptions, sort by location type then name.
Write Output
Write the output into a SKILLS.md file at the current working directory. Write the generated markdown into the file, and display summary to the user in chat.
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