npx load-skill [skill]
Over the last year, I spent an unbelievable amount of time learning, testing, and improving how I work with AI systems. I built agents, experimented with frameworks, tried every new tool that popped up, and constantly pushed myself to understand how AI could be more useful in real workflows.
The Problem: AI Agent Skills Are a Mess
AI agents aren’t monolithic.
They’re basically collections of small, focused capabilities — “skills.”
But right now, most developers store these skills in completely different ways:
- some put tools in /utils
- others mix them into long files
- others hide them inside frameworks
- others copy/paste code from old projects
The Idea: A Standard Skills Folder
The core concept behind load-skill is extremely simple:
Put all your AI agent skills in one folder and automatically load them into your agent.
That’s it.
This creates a predictable structure:
/skills
├── summarize.js
├── translate.js
└── generateTitle.js
Each file exports one skill.
load-skill loads everything automatically.
Features
- 1,168 skills from official and community sources, pre-indexed and ready to install
- Multi-tool support — install skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Gemini CLI
- Fast search — find skills by name, description, or tags
- Auto-scraper — update the registry from GitHub sources with
load-skill update - Programmatic API — use as a library in your own tools
load-skill list # List all skills
load-skill list --source anthropics # Filter by source
load-skill list --tag testing # Filter by tag
load-skill list --tool cursor # Filter by compatible tool
load-skill search react # Search by keyword
load-skill search "api design" --tag backend
load-skill info react-expert # Detailed info about a skill
load-skill tags # Show all tags with counts
load-skill sources # Show all skill sources
load-skill list --json # Machine-readable output
load-skill search react --json
load-skill info react-expert --json
GitHub (source code, issues, contributions):
https://github.com/fix2015/load-skill