Skill Discovery

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

Sby Skills Guide Bot
ProductivityBeginner
606/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-discovery#subagents#meta#agent-tools

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Our review

Dynamically discovers all available skills and subagent types.

Strengths

  • Lists all installed skills with a single command.
  • Explains how skills trigger based on keywords.
  • Describes subagent types and their typical uses.
  • Helps users navigate the agent system.

Limitations

  • Subagent types depend on the Task tool definition, not this skill itself.
  • Only works within the .claude/skills directory structure.
  • Does not provide detailed usage instructions for each skill.
When to use it

Use when you need to see what skills or subagents are available for your current task.

When not to use it

Do not use when you already know which skill you need or require in-depth information about a specific skill.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill only instructs running a local Python script to list other skills. No destructive commands, network access, or data exfiltration are present. The script path is relative to the skills directory, posing no immediate risk.

No concerns found

Examples

List skills
/s
Show available agents
show skills
List subagent types
what agents are there?

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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