Skill Discovery

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Dynamically discover all available skills and subagent types. Auto-triggers on help requests or skill listings.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentBeginner
306/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-discovery#subagent-types#meta-skill#claude-skills#trigger-keywords

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Our review

This skill dynamically discovers all available skills and subagents in the Claude Code environment.

Strengths

  • Instantly lists all installed skills and their trigger keywords.
  • Explains how automatic keyword-based triggering works.
  • Provides an overview of subagent types like Explore, general, Bash, Plan.
  • Facilitates adding new skills via the skill-creator skill.

Limitations

  • Depends on the discover.py script being present in the skills directory.
  • Only shows local skills under .claude/skills, not external ones.
  • Subagent types are defined by the Task tool, not this skill.
When to use it

Use this skill when you need to know which skills are available or how to invoke them.

When not to use it

Do not use it if you already know the available skills or for performing a specific task.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill runs a local Python script to list skills, with no indication of external network calls, data exfiltration, or destructive commands. The script is under the user's control and the skill's purpose is benign discovery.

No concerns found

Examples

List all skills
Show skills
What can you do?
What can you do?
List agents
List agents

name: s description: Discover available skills and subagents. Auto-triggers on: /s, show skills, list skills, available skills, what can you do, help with skills, what agents, list agents allowed-tools: Bash, Read

Skill Discovery

Dynamically discover all available skills and subagent types.

Usage

Run the discovery script to list all skills:

python3 .claude/skills/s/scripts/discover.py

Subagent Types

Subagents are spawned via the Task tool. Available types are defined in the Task tool's system description. To see current subagent types, check the subagent_type parameter in your Task tool definition.

Common subagent types include:

  • Explore - Fast codebase exploration, file finding, searches
  • general-purpose - Complex multi-step tasks, research
  • Bash - Git operations, command execution
  • Plan - Architecture decisions, implementation planning

Note: Subagent types are defined by the Task tool, not this skill. Check your tool definitions for the authoritative list.

How Skills Work

Skills live in .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: skill-name
description: What it does AND when to trigger (keywords here!)
allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Write, Task
---
  • Triggering: Skills auto-trigger based on keywords in their description field
  • Invocation: Use /<skill-name> or natural language matching trigger keywords
  • Tools: Each skill declares what tools it can use in allowed-tools

Adding New Skills

Use the skill-creator skill: /skill-creator <description>

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