Find skills

When to use this skill

• The user asks "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that does X"
• The user asks "how do I do X" where X is a common task with a likely existing skill
• The user wants to extend Horizon's capabilities with a new skill

Before searching externally, check the <available_skills> block in your context, the user may already have a relevant skill installed.

Step 1, check the leaderboard

Before running any CLI command, check skills.sh to see whether a well-known skill already covers the domain. The leaderboard ranks by total installs, surfacing the most popular and battle-tested options.

Step 2, search for skills

If the leaderboard doesn't cover the user's need, search via the Skills CLI:

bash(command="npx --yes skills find <query>")

Examples:

User says	Search
"make my React app faster"	npx --yes skills find react performance
"help with PR reviews"	npx --yes skills find pr review
"create a changelog"	npx --yes skills find changelog

If npx is unavailable the command will fail, fall back to browsing skills.sh manually and pasting the SKILL.md content.

Step 3, verify quality before recommending

Never recommend a skill based solely on search results.

• Install count, prefer 1 000+ installs; treat anything under 100 with skepticism
• Source reputation, official organisations (vercel-labs, anthropics, microsoft) are more trustworthy than unknown authors
• GitHub stars, check the source repo; a skill from a repo with <100 stars is a yellow flag

Step 4, present the option to the user

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

Shall I install it?

Only proceed to installation after the user confirms.

Step 5, install

Option A, write SKILL.md directly (always works)