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Read Skills — Documentation skill for Claude Code

Documentation community

Display and add to README a table of all available skills.

How to install Read Skills

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/adrianr84-claude-code-skills-read-skills.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adrianR84/claude-code-skills/HEAD/.claude/commands/read-skills.md -o ~/.claude/commands/adrianr84-claude-code-skills-read-skills.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Read Skills does

description: Display and add to README a table of all available skills

Read Skills

Scans the `skills/` folder, extracts all skill metadata, and generates a tabular overview added to README.md.

Steps

1. Find All Skills

Use Glob to locate all `SKILL.md` files:

Pattern: skills/*/SKILL.md
Also check nested: skills/**/SKILL.md

2. Extract Skill Metadata

For each `SKILL.md` found, read the file and extract:

Name: From name: in frontmatter (or derive from fold

Alternatives in Documentation

Docs Uth — Add a new page to the "Under the Hood" Documentation 931 ★
Paper Review — Read an academic paper PDF and produce methodology documentation for implementation 387 ★
Readme Polish — Read and follow the skill definition 239 ★