safe-skill-search

Fast local search across agent skill registries with quality filtering - only returns skills with score >= 80 by default.

Based on analysis of 4,784 skills from 5 registries: Analyzing 4,784 AI Agent Skills →

Features

• Quality filtering: Filters out low-quality skills (score < 80) by default
• --min-score flag: Override the minimum quality threshold (use 0 to show all)
• Fast local search: Tantivy (BM25) full-text search engine
• Git-based sync: Clones repos locally for instant access
• Multiple registries: Searches clawdhub, anthropic, openai, and jo skills
• Trust indicators: [✓] for trusted, [⚠] for untrusted
• Quality scores: Shows [Q:score] for each skill

Requirements

• git: Required for cloning skill registries

Installation

Pre-built Binaries

Download from releases:

Platform	Binary
macOS (Apple Silicon)	safe-skill-search-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
macOS (Intel)	safe-skill-search-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
Linux (x86_64)	safe-skill-search-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Linux (ARM64)	safe-skill-search-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Windows (x86_64)	safe-skill-search-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

From Source

git clone https://github.com/jo-inc/safe-skill-search
cd safe-skill-search
cargo install --path .

Usage

# Search for skills (only shows quality score >= 80)
safe-skill-search search "browser automation"

# Show all skills regardless of quality score
safe-skill-search search "browser automation" --min-score 0

# Show only premium quality skills (score >= 90)
safe-skill-search search "browser automation" --min-score 90

# Search with JSON output
safe-skill-search search "pdf" --json

# Filter by registry
safe-skill-search search "pdf" --registry anthropic

# Only trusted skills (anthropic + openai official)
safe-skill-search search "document" --trusted

# Show top skills by stars (quality filtered)
safe-skill-search top

# Show skill details including quality score
safe-skill-search show trello

# Get install URL for a skill
safe-skill-search url trello

# Force resync from GitHub
safe-skill-search sync --force

Quality Scores

Quality scores are based on the skills-db analysis which evaluated 4,784 skills from 5 registries.

Scoring criteria:

• Documentation completeness
• Code examples
• Workflow structure
• Error handling
• Best practices

Scores range from 0-100, with 80+ being considered high-quality.

Registries

Registry	Source	Skills	Trust
clawdhub	github.com/openclaw/skills	~3400	⚠ Community
anthropic	github.com/anthropics/skills	~16	✓ Official
openai	github.com/openai/skills/.curated	~31	✓ Official
openai-experimental	github.com/openai/skills/.experimental	varies	⚠ Experimental
jo	github.com/jo-inc/skills	varies	✓ Official

Data Storage

All data stored in ~/.local/share/skill-search/:

• skills.db - SQLite database with skill metadata
• index/ - Tantivy full-text search index
• repos/ - Cloned git repositories (~100MB total)

Building

cargo build --release
# Binary at target/release/safe-skill-search

License

MIT