Claude Skills Export

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Generates a comprehensive markdown catalog of all available Claude skills. Discovers personal, project, and plugin skills, then creates structured documentation.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
206/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-export#documentation#skills-catalog#markdown

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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 to use it

When you need to inventory all Claude skills for documentation or maintenance.

When not to use it

If you need the full content of skills beyond name and description.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score88/100

The 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

Export all skills
Generate a catalog of all my Claude skills with their names, descriptions, and locations.
Create SKILLS.md
Create a SKILLS.md file that lists every available Claude skill from personal, project, and plugin sources.
List enabled plugin skills
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

  1. Read ~/.claude/settings.json to get enabled plugins (format: plugin-name@marketplace-id)
  2. Parse each plugin ID into plugin name and marketplace ID
  3. Look up marketplace location in ~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json
  4. Read {marketplaceLocation}/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json to get the marketplace manifest
  5. Find the specific plugin by name in the manifest's plugins array
  6. Only scan skills listed in that plugin's skills array (do not scan entire marketplace)
  7. 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 name and description.
  • 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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