ak skills search

ak skills search

Search skills

Synopsis

What it does: Search available skills by name, description, and tags. Results are ranked deterministically; ties broken by <kit>/<skill> alphabetical order.

Who it's for: Power devs scripting (--json) and users discovering what's available.

When to use it: To find a skill by keyword without knowing the exact name.

Examples: ak skills search browser ak skills search 'code review' --json

What changes on disk: Read-only.

Output modes: pretty default on TTY (colors, ASCII markers) plain auto when stdout piped or --no-interactive json --json (single-object envelope, NDJSON-safe)

Exit codes: 0 success 1 runtime error 2 invalid flags 3 user-cancel (SIGINT, prompt-cancel) 2 empty query

ak skills search <query> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help             help for search
      --json             Emit machine-readable JSON (implies --no-interactive)
      --no-interactive   Disable interactive prompts (CI-safe)
  -q, --quiet            Suppress non-error output on stderr
  -V, --verbose          Extra diagnostic output on stderr (loses to --quiet)
  -y, --yes              Assume yes for all prompts

SEE ALSO

• ak skills - Browse and install kit skills