Claude Skills Export

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Generates a comprehensive markdown catalog of all Claude skills from personal, project, and plugin sources. It helps you document or review all available skills in your environment at a glance.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DocumentationIntermediate
1206/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-export#documentation#catalog#markdown#skills-management

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Our review

Generates a comprehensive markdown catalog of all available Claude skills from personal, project, and plugin sources.

Strengths

  • Automates documentation of skills
  • Scans multiple sources (personal, project, plugins)
  • Outputs an organized markdown table
  • Handles discovery of enabled plugins

Limitations

  • Requires Claude-specific file structure
  • Plugin discovery is complex and error-prone
  • Only reads YAML frontmatter, not full skill content
When to use it

Use when you need to create or update an inventory of all installed Claude skills for reference or sharing.

When not to use it

Do not use if you want to modify skills or understand their full content; it is not suitable for non-Claude environments.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill only reads existing SKILL.md files and generates a documentation file using echo. The allowed bash tools are read-only (cat, find, ls) and echo, posing no risk of data loss, exfiltration, or destructive actions.

No concerns found

Examples

Export all skills
Export all available Claude skills to a markdown catalog file.
Generate skills documentation
Generate a documentation file (SKILLS.md) listing all personal, project, and plugin skills.
Create skills inventory
Create an inventory of all installed Claude skills with their names, descriptions, and locations.

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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