Skill Finder: Discover and Install Agent Skills from Hugging Face

Overview

Agent skills are packaged instructions and resources hosted on Hugging Face Spaces with the agent-skill tag. Use the Hugging Face MCP tools to search and install them.

Searching for Skills

Use the hf_space_search MCP tool to find skills:

# Search for all skills
hf_space_search(filter="agent-skill")

# Search with keywords
hf_space_search(filter="agent-skill", search="training")

Installing Skills

Use the hf_download MCP tool to download a skill:

# Download a skill space
hf_download(repo_id="hf-skills/llm-trainer", repo_type="space", local_dir=".claude/skills/llm-trainer")

Skill Structure

A valid skill contains a SKILL.md file with YAML front matter:

---
name: my-skill-name
description: When to use this skill and what it does.
---

# Instructions for the agent...

Optional directories: scripts/, references/, templates/