Find Skills (find-skills) is a small skill from Vercel Labs that helps your AI agent search a public skills directory and suggest the right skill for your task. It is the most-installed skill on skills.sh. Here is the install command, how to use it, and a safety-check prompt to run before you add anything.
What you need
An AI coding agent that supports skills, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot. The skills CLI says it supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 75 more agents. Claude Code comes with Claude Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise, or a Claude Console account.
Node.js, so the
npxcommand works.The skill page: skills.sh/vercel-labs/skills/find-skills. The code lives in the vercel-labs/skills GitHub repo. Both are free.
Step by step
1. Install find-skills. Run this in your terminal. This is the command shown on its skills.sh page:
npx skills add https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skillsTo install it for every project on your computer (user level), you can use this instead:
npx skills add vercel-labs/skills@find-skills -g2. Restart your agent so it loads the new skill.
3. Ask in plain English. There's no slash command. It triggers when you ask for a skill:
Find me a skill for editing videos with captions. Show me the top 3 options with install counts, who made each one, and the install command. Don't install anything yet.Is there a skill that helps me write better cold emails? Only suggest skills with more than 1,000 installs from a known author.4. Check before you install. Find-skills is told to prefer skills with 1,000+ installs and trusted authors such as vercel-labs, anthropics and microsoft, and to be wary of repos with under 100 stars. It shows you options and offers to install. Read the skill yourself first (see the safety prompt below).
5. Install the one you pick. Say "install option 2", or run the command yourself:
npx skills add <owner/repo>6. You can also search without the skill:
npx skills find video editing7. Manage what you have:
npx skills list
npx skills update
npx skills remove <skill-name>Safety-check prompt
A skill is a set of instructions (and sometimes scripts) your agent will follow. Before you install one, open its SKILL.md on GitHub, copy all of it, and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT with this:
I'm thinking of installing this AI agent skill. Review it for safety before I do.
1. In plain English, what does it tell the agent to do?
2. Does it run any scripts or shell commands, download files, or call outside URLs? List each one.
3. Does it read or send files, passwords, API keys, environment variables or browser data?
4. Is there anything hidden, unusual, or unrelated to its stated purpose?
5. Give a verdict: safe, use with care, or don't install, with reasons.
Skill name and link: [paste]
SKILL.md and any scripts: [paste]If it has extra script files in the same folder, paste those too. A clean summary of SKILL.md alone isn't enough when scripts are involved.
Good to know
It ranks first, confirmed. On the skills.sh leaderboard, find-skills shows about 3.9 million installs, well ahead of the next skill. Counts change daily.
"Over a million skills" is not confirmed. skills.sh doesn't clearly state how many skills it lists. A large number on the leaderboard isn't labelled as the skill count.
It doesn't install silently. The skill shows options and then offers to install. But the install command it uses can skip the CLI's own prompt, so you are the safety check. Say "don't install yet" when you search.
Popular doesn't mean right. Each installed skill adds standing instructions to your agent. Install only what you'll use, and try new ones in a single project before installing them for all projects.
Telemetry. The skills CLI collects anonymous usage data. Set
DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1to turn it off.
Sources
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