Find Skills

This skill helps you discover and install skills from the open agent skills ecosystem.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user:

• Asks "how do I do X" where X might be a common task with an existing skill
• Says "find a skill for X" or "is there a skill for X"
• Asks "can you do X" where X is a specialized capability
• Expresses interest in extending agent capabilities
• Wants to search for tools, templates, or workflows
• Mentions they wish they had help with a specific domain (design, testing, deployment, etc.)

The skill tools

Cherry gives you two built-in tools for skills — use them, and do NOT shell out to npx skills, git, or any package manager:

• search_skills(query) — search the marketplace by keyword. Returns matches, each with an opaque install_source value.
• install_skill(install_source) — install ONE skill into Cherry's managed library and enable it for this agent. Cherry clones the repo, installs just that one skill, and registers it in a single deterministic step. Permission handling follows the active Claude permission mode (Step 6).

Browse skills at: https://skills.sh/

How to Help Users Find Skills

Step 1: Understand What They Need

When a user asks for help with something, identify:

1. The domain (e.g., React, testing, design, deployment)
2. The specific task (e.g., writing tests, creating animations, reviewing PRs)
3. Whether this is a common enough task that a skill likely exists

Step 2: Check the Leaderboard First

Before running a CLI search, check the skills.sh leaderboard to see if a well-known skill already exists for the domain. The leaderboard ranks skills by total installs, surfacing the most popular and battle-tested options.

For example, top skills for web development include:

• vercel-labs/agent-skills — React, Next.js, web design (100K+ installs each)
• anthropics/skills — Frontend design, document processing (100K+ installs)

Step 3: Search for Skills

If the leaderboard doesn't cover the user's need, call the search_skills tool:

• User asks "how do I make my React app faster?" → search_skills("react performance")
• User asks "can you help me with PR reviews?" → search_skills("pr review")
• User asks "I need to create a changelog" → search_skills("changelog")

Each result includes an opaque install_source, source registry, review URL, install count, and available star count. Pass the exact install_source value to install_skill.

Step 4: Verify Quality Before Recommending

Do not recommend a skill based solely on search results. Always verify:

1. Install count — Prefer skills with 1K+ installs. Be cautious with anything under 100.
2. Source reputation — Official sources (vercel-labs, anthropics, microsoft) are more trustworthy than unknown authors.
3. GitHub stars — Check the source repository. A skill from a repo with <100 stars should be treated with skepticism.

Step 5: Present Options to the User

When you find relevant skills, present them to the user with:

1. The skill name and what it does
2. The install count and source
3. That you can install it for them into Cherry
4. A link to learn more at skills.sh

Example response:

I found a skill that might help! The "react-best-practices" skill provides
React and Next.js performance optimization guidelines from Vercel Engineering.
(185K installs)

I can install it into Cherry's skill library for you — want me to go ahead?

Learn more: https://skills.sh/vercel-labs/agent-skills/react-best-practices

Step 6: Install (Uses the Active Permission Mode)

⚠️ Security: Skills are third-party code that runs with full agent permissions. A malicious skill could read, modify, or delete files on your system.

Before installing any skill:

1. Show a security warning — tell the user that the skill is third-party code and will run with full agent permissions.
2. Provide a review link — the skills.sh page (or source repository) so the user can review the skill's SKILL.md and any scripts it contains.
3. Require install intent — call install_skill only when the user asked to install the skill or accepted a presented option. A search-only request must not mutate the skill library.

Once the user has expressed install intent, call install_skill with the exact install_source

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