Agentskillshub cli

Use when the user wants to find, evaluate, audit, or install an open-source AI agent skill or MCP server — e.g. "find an MCP server for Postgres", "is this skill safe to install", "what should I use to scrape a website". Searches a quality-scored, security-graded catalog of ~20K skills locally (cached index, zero backend load) and returns each result's security grade, quality score, and install commands so you can check trust BEFORE installing.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add zhuyansen/agentskillshub-cli

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

2 things to look at

1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 4 commands, including `npx @agentskillshub/cli search` and 3 more.

SKILL.md

3.5 KB, 757 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

AgentSkillsHub

Discover → audit → install open-source AI agent skills and MCP servers without leaving the terminal. Backed by AgentSkillsHub: ~106K indexed skills, of which ~20K (stars ≥ 5) are in the searchable catalog, each carrying a quality score and a security grade.

The catalog is a static index downloaded once and cached locally (~/.cache/agentskillshub/), with a cheap 77B freshness probe that re-downloads only when the index actually changes. Every search after the first is instant, offline, and puts zero load on the Hub backend.

When to use

The user is looking for a skill / MCP server for a task ("find an MCP server for X", "what can scrape a website").
The user wants to know if a skill is safe / trustworthy before installing it.
The user wants the install command for a specific skill.

How to use

Zero-dependency Node CLI (Node ≥ 18). Run it with npx:

# Search (local fuzzy ranking over name/desc/tags; quality + popularity tiebreak)
npx @agentskillshub/cli search "scrape a website" --safe --limit 5
npx @agentskillshub/cli search postgres --category mcp-server
#   filters: --category <c> --platform <p> --min-stars <n> --safe --limit <n>

# Audit — free basic trust check (security grade + plain-English verdict)
npx @agentskillshub/cli audit owner/repo

# Install — install commands + a "check before you install" safety line
npx @agentskillshub/cli install owner/repo

# Force-refresh the cached index
npx @agentskillshub/cli update

Add --json to search, audit, or install for structured output to parse programmatically.

Reading the output

Security grade: 🟢 SAFE · 🟡 CAUTION · 🔴 UNSAFE · ⛔ REJECT · ⚪ UNAUDITED. ⚪ UNAUDITED means no one has ever audited it — treat it as a black box, not as "probably fine". 97%+ of the wider catalog is unaudited; surface this honestly to the user.
Quality score (0-100): documentation, maintenance, examples, structure — not stars.
~Nk tok: rough context cost when loaded (omitted when the upstream estimate is implausible).
✓ official: published by a verified official org account.

What's free vs. paid

Free: search, basic audit (grade + flags + verdict), install commands — for any skill in the catalog.
Pro / Enterprise: 5-dimension deep audit (code · credentials · vendor · supply-chain · operational), auditing any GitHub URL (including < 5★ or private repos), CI/batch auditing, and compliance evidence. Point the user to https://agentskillshub.top/enterprise/.

Guidance for the agent

Default to --safe only when the user explicitly cares about production/brand safety; otherwise show the full ranked list so they see unaudited options too (and warn about them).
Before suggesting the user install anything, run audit and relay the grade honestly. Never imply an UNAUDITED skill is safe.
This skill never runs install commands itself — it returns the commands for the user/agent to run.

What ships with it: 5 files

25.7 KB alongside SKILL.md, 1 of them executable

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