SkillIssue - Claude Plugin & Skill Search
A Claude Code skill for discovering and recommending plugins and skills from multiple marketplaces with analysis and installation instructions.
Overview
SkillIssue helps users find the right Claude Code plugins and skills for their needs by searching across multiple marketplaces, analyzing plugin capabilities, and providing ready-to-use installation commands.
Currently indexes 52 plugins and 100s of skills across 3 marketplaces!
Add your marketplace with a Pull Request
Features
- 🔍 Smart Search - Search across name, description, category, tags, and keywords
- 🌐 Multi-Marketplace - Searches official and community marketplaces (claude-plugins-official, anthropics-skills, claude-code-templates)
- 📊 Comprehensive Analysis - Shows GitHub stats, MCP support, commands, and skills in one line
- 📥 Installation Ready - Copy-paste installation commands with correct marketplace URLs
- ⚡ Token Optimized - Compact output format by default, detailed mode on demand
- 🔄 Auto-Update - Fresh marketplace data every 60 minutes via GitHub API
Installation
claude plugin marketplace add daamitt/skill-issue
claude plugin i SkillIssue
Requirements
- Python 3.6+
curl (for downloading marketplace data via GitHub API)
Usage
As a Skill
The skill is invoked automatically when you ask Claude to search for plugins:
> Find me plugins for database management
Or use the /search command:
> /SkillIssue:search notion meetings
Example Output
================================================================================
📦 Notion
================================================================================
Category: productivity
Description: Notion workspace integration. Search pages, create and update documents...
⭐ Stars: 6 | 🔌 MCP: Yes | 📜 Commands: 6 | 🎯 Skills: 4 | 🕐 Last Updated: 2025-12-22
Commands:
- notion-create-page.md
- notion-database-query.md
- notion-create-task.md
...
Skills:
- notion/knowledge-capture
- notion/meeting-intelligence
- notion/research-documentation
...
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
📥 Installation:
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
/plugin install Notion@claude-plugins-official
Homepage: https://github.com/makenotion/claude-code-notion-plugin
Adding More Marketplaces
Edit skills/plugin-search/scripts/marketplaces.json:
{
"marketplaces": [
{
"name": "marketplace-name",
"base_url": "https://github.com/owner/repo"
}
]
}
Directory Structure
skill-issue/
├── README.md # This file
├── commands/
│ └── search.md # /search command definition
├── skills/
│ └── plugin-search/
│ ├── SKILL.md # Skill definition for Claude
│ ├── reference.md # Detailed documentation
│ └── scripts/
│ ├── search_plugins.py # Main search script
│ ├── marketplaces.json # Marketplace config
│ └── data/ # Cached marketplace data (auto-created)
└── .claude-plugin/
├── plugin.json # Plugin metadata
└── marketplace.json # Marketplace entry for this plugin
Technical Details
Search Script Features
The Python script at skills/plugin-search/scripts/search_plugins.py provides:
- Multi-marketplace data loading and caching (60-minute cache)
- GitHub API integration for repository stats
- Repository tree analysis for commands/skills/MCP detection
- OR logic search across multiple fields
- Token-optimized output formats
GitHub API Integration
- Fetches marketplace.json via GitHub API
- Automatically decodes base64 content
- Extracts repository stats (stars, last updated)
- Analyzes repository structure for MCP, commands, and skills
Available Options
-q, --query QUERY Search query (OR logic for multiple terms)
-c, --category CATEGORY Filter by category
-t, --tags TAGS Filter by tags (space-separated)
-d, --detailed Show detailed information with installation
--all List all plugins (compact format)
-m, --marketplace Filter by marketplace name
--list List all marketplaces and categories
Examples
# Find database plugins
python scripts/search_plugins.py -q "database"
# Find plugins for git workflow
python scripts/search_plugins.py -q "git github workflow"
# See all productivity plugins with details
python scripts/search_plugins.py --all -c productivity -d
# Explore claude-code-templates marketplace
python scripts/search_plugins.py --all -m claude-code-templates
# Get installation instructions for Notion
python scripts/search_plugins.py -q "notion" -d
License