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.
How do I install this agent skill?
npx skills add https://github.com/moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills --skill browse-and-evaluateIs this agent skill safe to install?
- Gen Agent Trust Hubpass
The skill provides a secure workflow for browsing and evaluating AI agent skills. It utilizes the ai-agent-skills CLI tool and emphasizes protective measures such as dry-running installations and sanitizing previews to prevent prompt injection and unintended code execution.
- Socketpass
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- Snykwarn
Risk: MEDIUM · 1 issue
What does this agent skill do?
Browse And Evaluate
Goal
Find the right skill for a task without flooding the context window or installing blindly.
Guardrails
- Always use
--fieldson list/search/info to keep output small. Default:--fields name,tier,workArea,description. - Always use
--dry-runbefore installing anything. - Never install more than 3 skills at once without explicit user confirmation.
- Prefer
--format jsonin non-interactive pipelines. The CLI defaults to JSON when stdout is not a TTY. - Use
--limitwhen 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
previewcommand sanitizes skill content to strip prompt injection patterns. If content looks truncated, check if suspicious patterns were removed. - Collection installs pull multiple skills. Always
--listor--dry-runa collection before installing. - Upstream (non-vendored) skills require a network fetch at install time. Use
--dry-runto verify the source is reachable.
How can the creator link this skill?
Add the canonical catalog link to the repository README so users can inspect current installs and available audits. The publishing guide covers the complete discovery path.
<a href="https://skillzs.dev/skills/moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills/browse-and-evaluate">View browse-and-evaluate on skillZs</a>