Skill Discovery

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Dynamically discover all available skills and subagent types. Auto-triggers on list and help commands.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentBeginner
206/2/2026
Claude Code
#skill-discovery#subagent-types#available-skills#claude-skills#discovery

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Our review

Dynamically discovers all available skills and subagent types in Claude Code.

Strengths

  • Provides a quick overview of installed skills.
  • Helps understand which subagents can be invoked via the Task tool.
  • Explains the automatic keyword-based triggering mechanism for skills.
  • Makes it easy to add new skills using the skill-creator skill.

Limitations

  • Does not list uninstalled or external skills.
  • The list of subagent types depends on the Task tool configuration, not this skill.
When to use it

When you need to discover what skills and subagents are available in your Claude Code environment.

When not to use it

If you are already familiar with the skill ecosystem and want to execute a specific task without exploring.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score85/100

The skill instructs running a local Python script for discovery, with no destructive commands, remote payloads, or exfiltration. It only provides documentation and a safe script invocation.

No concerns found

Examples

List all skills
show skills
Discover subagent types
what agents are available?
General capability inquiry
what can you do?

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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