Better Icons

by dtsola

Better Icons is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by dtsola in xiaoyaosearch.

1.1K stars60 forkson dtsola/xiaoyaosearchAdded 2026/08/20Repository updated 2026/05/22

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Install Better Icons

Copy Better Icons into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/dtsola/xiaoyaosearch/tree/main/.claude/skills/better-icons ~/.claude/skills/better-icons

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/dtsola/xiaoyaosearch.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/better-icons/SKILL.md in dtsola/xiaoyaosearch
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/better-icons
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Better Icons does

Better Icons searches 200+ Iconify icon libraries and retrieves SVGs from matching icon IDs. Use it when you need to find, download, or sync icons in a project, or to let agents do the same through MCP.

Better Icons is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Better Icons comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-search, document-search, file-search and local-search.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Better Icons

Search and retrieve icons from 200+ libraries via Iconify.

Installation

Before using any better-icons commands, ensure the tool is available in the environment.

Option 1 — Install globally (recommended, matches all examples below):

# Using npm
npm install -g better-icons

# Using Bun (faster)
bun add -g better-icons

Option 2 — Run without installing (prefix every command with npx or bunx):

# Using npx (npm)
npx better-icons search arrow --limit 10
npx better-icons get lucide:home > icon.svg

# Using bunx (Bun — faster)
bunx better-icons search arrow --limit 10
bunx better-icons get lucide:home > icon.svg

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Better Icons

What else does dtsola publish alongside Better Icons?
Better Icons is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from dtsola/xiaoyaosearch, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Code Review Expert, Excalidraw Diagrams and Frontend Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Better Icons does, and is maintained by dtsola in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the dtsola/xiaoyaosearch page.
How does Better Icons compare to other Automation skills?
Better Icons ranks #785 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Better Icons against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.