Browse and evaluate

Skill MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills/skills/browse-and-evaluate

Use when exploring the ai-agent-skills catalog to find, compare, and evaluate skills before installing. Always use --fields to limit output size and --dry-run before committing to an install.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills --skill browse-and-evaluate

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One thing to look at

runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 5 commands, including `npx ai-agent-skills search <query> --fields name,tier,workArea,description --limit 10` and 4 more.

SKILL.md

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Browse And Evaluate

Goal

Find the right skill for a task without flooding the context window or installing blindly.

Guardrails

Always use --fields on list/search/info to keep output small. Default: --fields name,tier,workArea,description.
Always use --dry-run before installing anything.
Never install more than 3 skills at once without explicit user confirmation.
Prefer --format json in non-interactive pipelines. The CLI defaults to JSON when stdout is not a TTY.
Use --limit when browsing large catalogs. Start with --limit 10.

Workflow

Search or browse the catalog.

npx ai-agent-skills search <query> --fields name,tier,workArea,description --limit 10

Get details on a candidate.

npx ai-agent-skills info <skill-name> --fields name,description,tags,collections,installCommands

Preview the skill content.

npx ai-agent-skills preview <skill-name>

Dry-run the install.

npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name> --dry-run

Install only after reviewing the dry-run output.

npx ai-agent-skills install <skill-name>

Gotchas

The preview command sanitizes skill content to strip prompt injection patterns. If content looks truncated, check if suspicious patterns were removed.
Collection installs pull multiple skills. Always --list or --dry-run a collection before installing.
Upstream (non-vendored) skills require a network fetch at install time. Use --dry-run to verify the source is reachable.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.