mcpbeat

Registry Browser

anthropics/registry-browser

> Search watched registries for community legal skills, showing matches with descriptions and offering to show the full SKILL.md before install. Use when the user says "browse", "search skills", "find a skill for", "what's out there for", or wants to add a new registry to the watchlist.

740 tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
2
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
8996
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal --skill registry-browser

What comes with it

474 bytes besides the instruction
references/registries.yaml

The instruction itself

11 sections, as written by the author

/registry-browser

  • Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries.
  • Use the workflow below.
  • Search each registry. Show matches with descriptions.
  • Offer to show full SKILL.md for any match.

Purpose

Find skills across the watched registries. Search, preview, decide.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries list.

Workflow

Step 1: Fetch registry indexes

For each watched registry:

  • GitHub repos: fetch skills/ directory listing and each SKILL.md frontmatter (name + description).
  • Marketplace-style registries: fetch the index.

Cache the index locally (references/registry-cache.json) so browsing is fast. Refresh cache if >7 days old or on request.

Match query against skill names and descriptions. Simple keyword match is fine — these are small enough that fuzzy search is overkill.

Also: browse by category if the registry organizes skills that way.

Step 3: Present matches

## Search: "[query]"

**Found [N] skills across [M] registries:**

### [skill-name]
**From:** [registry name]
**Description:** [from frontmatter]
[View full SKILL.md] [Install]

### [skill-name]
[...]

Step 4: Preview

On "view full SKILL.md": fetch and show the whole file. User reads it before deciding to install. No surprises.

Step 5: Add a registry

If the user has a URL to a registry not in the watchlist:

  • Fetch it, validate it's a skills repo (has skills/ or .claude-plugin/)
  • Show what's in it
  • Add to ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/legal-builder-hub/CLAUDE.md → watched registries on confirmation

Default registries

  • lpm-skills — 14 legal project management skills. Practice-agnostic. Good starting point.
  • Space for others to be added as the ecosystem grows.

What this skill does not do

  • Install anything. It browses. skill-installer installs.
  • Rate or review skills. It shows you the SKILL.md; you judge.
  • Search the whole internet. Only watched registries.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take anthropics/registry-browser from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.