Ai-Agent-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.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/browse-and-evaluate" ~/.claude/skills/moizibnyousaf-ai-agent-skills-browse-and-evaluate && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/browse-and-evaluate/SKILL.md

source content

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.