Skills Guide

Recipe Finder

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Finds recipes by ingredient, cuisine, or dietary preference using TheMealDB API. Helps when users ask for meal ideas based on available ingredients or specific dietary needs.

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ProductivityBeginner
2/28/2026
Claude CodeCursorWindsurfCopilotCodex
#recipes#food#api#web-fetch#meal-planning

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Automated summary

This skill finds recipes through the free TheMealDB API by ingredient, cuisine type, or dietary preference.

Strengths

  • Queries TheMealDB across three axes: ingredient, cuisine area, and name search
  • Requires no API key, so it works right away
  • Returns results in a clean layout with name, image, category, and main ingredients
  • Supports combining multiple queries to refine suggestions

Limitations

  • TheMealDB's catalog is modest, so some ingredient/cuisine combinations yield few or no results
  • Strict restrictions such as gluten-free are only handled to the extent the API exposes them
  • Relies on network access through web_fetch, so it cannot run offline
When to use it

Use it when the user wants meal ideas based on ingredients on hand or a particular cuisine.

When not to use it

Avoid it when the user needs highly precise, nutritionally detailed, or verified-source recipes.

Security analysis

Caution
Quality score82/100

The skill only performs read-only fetches against a public recipe API and contains no destructive, exfiltrating, or obfuscated instructions. The main concerns are the undeclared `web_fetch` dependency and the lack of URL encoding for user input, which warrant caution rather than a risky rating.

Findings
  • •The skill requires `web_fetch`, but no allowed-tools are declared, creating a capability/declaration mismatch.
  • •User-supplied ingredient, cuisine, or search values are interpolated directly into API URLs; URL-encoding and basic validation should be added.
How this analysis is made

Examples

Ingredient-based ideas
What can I make with chicken and rice tonight?
Cuisine search
Show me some Italian dinner recipes.
Dietary preference
I'm looking for vegetarian meal ideas.

Recipe Finder

Find recipes by ingredients, cuisine, or dietary preferences using TheMealDB free API.

Triggers

Use this skill when the user:

  • Asks "what can I make with [ingredient]"
  • Requests "recipes for dinner" or "Italian recipes"
  • Says "vegetarian options" or "vegan meals"
  • Asks for meal ideas based on ingredients they have

Tools

  • web_fetch - Fetch recipe data from TheMealDB API

Instructions

  1. Parse the user's request to identify:

    • Main ingredient (e.g., chicken, eggs, pasta)
    • Cuisine type (e.g., Italian, Mexican, Chinese)
    • Dietary restriction (e.g., vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free)

  2. Call TheMealDB API:

    • By ingredient: https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/filter.php?i={ingredient}
    • By cuisine: https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/filter.php?a={cuisine}
    • Search by name: https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/search.php?s={query}

  3. For each recipe found, optionally fetch details:

    • https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/lookup.php?i={id}

  4. Format response with:

    • Recipe name
    • Thumbnail image (if available)
    • Category and cuisine
    • Key ingredients
    • Brief instructions (or link to full recipe)

Response Format

Present recipes in a clean, scannable format:

  • Recipe name (bold)
  • Image thumbnail (if available)
  • Category | Cuisine
  • Main ingredients list
  • Brief description

Notes

  • TheMealDB is free, no API key required
  • Results are limited but reliable
  • Combine multiple queries for best results (ingredient + cuisine)

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2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

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Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/recipe-finder-mm5t8c5g/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

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