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Dotfiles-nix skill-hunter

Find and download skills. Use when you need to discover existing skills from GitHub repositories and store them in the correct local skills category. Results in discovered skills being downloaded into the users dotfile repo.

install
source · Clone the upstream repo
git clone https://github.com/not-matthias/dotfiles-nix
Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/
T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/not-matthias/dotfiles-nix "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/modules/home/programs/cli-agents/shared/skills/skill-hunter" ~/.claude/skills/not-matthias-dotfiles-nix-skill-hunter && rm -rf "$T"
manifest: modules/home/programs/cli-agents/shared/skills/skill-hunter/SKILL.md
source content

Skill Hunting.

1) Search with gh CLI

Use this regex path filter:

path:/^./.?(opencode|ai|llm|claude|codex|agents|pi|cursor|factory)\/skills?\/.*\.md$/

Example:

gh search code "zellij path:/^./.?(opencode|ai|llm|claude|codex|agents|pi|cursor|factory)\/skills?\/.*\.md$/" \
  --limit 20 \
  --json repository,path,url

2) Download the full skill directory (using 
gh download
)

Given a result path like 

.pi/skills/terminal/zellij/SKILL.md
, download the directory (
.pi/skills/terminal/zellij/
), not only one file.

# Install once (if needed)
# gh extension install yuler/gh-download

REPO="owner/repo"
SKILL_FILE_PATH=".pi/skills/terminal/zellij/SKILL.md"
SKILL_DIR_PATH="$(dirname "$SKILL_FILE_PATH")"

DOTFILES_ROOT="${DOTFILE_REPO_ROOT:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}"
STAGING_ROOT="${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills-research"
mkdir -p "$STAGING_ROOT"

# Download directory directly from GitHub without cloning full repo
gh download "$REPO" "$SKILL_DIR_PATH" --outdir "$STAGING_ROOT"

echo "Downloaded: $STAGING_ROOT/$(basename "$SKILL_DIR_PATH")"

3) Categorize and move to ${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills/{category}

Pick a category from existing dirs under 

${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills/
.

DOTFILES_ROOT="${DOTFILE_REPO_ROOT:-$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)}"
SKILLS_ROOT="${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills"

# Show available categories
find "$SKILLS_ROOT" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf "%f\n" | sort

# Inputs
DOWNLOADED_DIR="${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills-research/zellij"
SKILL_NAME="zellij"
CATEGORY="shells"   # choose from existing categories above

TARGET_DIR="${SKILLS_ROOT}/${CATEGORY}/${SKILL_NAME}"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TARGET_DIR")"
mv "$DOWNLOADED_DIR" "$TARGET_DIR"

echo "Stored at: $TARGET_DIR"

Done Criteria

  • You used 
    gh search code
    with the regex above.
  • You downloaded the skill directory (not just 
    SKILL.md
    ).
  • You moved it to 
    ${DOTFILES_ROOT}/ai/files/skills/{category}/{skill-name}
    using an existing category.