Claude Skills Export

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Generates a comprehensive markdown catalog of all available Claude skills by scanning personal, project, and marketplace sources.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
406/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-catalog#documentation#export#markdown

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Generates a Markdown catalog of all available Claude skills in the environment, discovering them from personal, project, and plugin sources.

Strengths

  • Comprehensive inventory of skills from three sources
  • Automatic generation of a Markdown table
  • Plugin skills discovery scoped only to enabled plugins without scanning the entire marketplace

Limitations

  • Only reads the YAML frontmatter of SKILL.md files, not the full content
  • Plugin discovery relies on precise settings.json configuration
  • Assumes standard directory structure for skills
When to use it

When you need a quick overview of all available skills and their descriptions.

When not to use it

When you need the full skill content or if the environment does not follow the standard skills directory layout.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill only uses read-only file discovery and content reading commands (Glob, Read, Bash with echo, cat, find, ls). It does not execute or modify files, access network, or exfiltrate data. All operations are local and non-destructive.

No concerns found

Examples

Export all skills
Export all Claude skills and create a SKILLS.md file.
Generate skill catalog
Generate a Markdown catalog of all my Claude skills including personal, project, and plugin sources.
List available skills
List all available Claude skills with their names and descriptions in a 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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