Build Skills Index

Build Skills Index is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Fr-e-d in GAAI-framework.

161 stars27 forkson Fr-e-d/GAAI-frameworkAdded 2026/09/08Repository updated 2026/09/04

agentic-codingai-agentsai-codingai-developer-toolsai-governanceai-memory-systemautonomous-agentsclaude-codecodex-clicontext-engineeringcursordevtoolsgemini-cliopencodevibe-codingwindsurf

Install in seconds

Install Build Skills Index

Copy Build Skills Index 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/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework/tree/main/.gaai/core/skills/cross/build-skills-index ~/.claude/skills/build-skills-index

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/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .gaai/core/skills/cross/build-skills-index/SKILL.md in Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/build-skills-index
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Build Skills Index does

Build Skills Index scans SKILL.md frontmatter in core and project skill folders and regenerates separate YAML indices. Use it when skills are added, changed, removed, or the index may be stale.

Build Skills Index is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Build Skills Index comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-coding, ai-developer-tools and ai-governance.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Build Skills Index

Purpose / When to Activate

Activate when:

A new skill is created (invoked automatically by create-skill Step 6)
A skill's frontmatter is modified (description, tags, category, id)
A skill is removed or deprecated
Either skills-index.yaml is absent or suspected stale (e.g. after a git pull or framework update)

This skill generates the derived catalogs used by agents for fast skill discovery. It does not replace frontmatter — it aggregates it.

skills-index.yaml files are caches. Frontmatter is the source of truth.

Process

Step 1 — Scan both skill directories

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

Frequently asked about Build Skills Index

What else does Fr-e-d publish alongside Build Skills Index?
Build Skills Index is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Abort-Safe Handler, Ambiguity Detector and Approach Evaluation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Build Skills Index does, and is maintained by Fr-e-d in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework page.
How does Build Skills Index compare to other Automation skills?
Build Skills Index ranks #2080 by stars among the 2226 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 Build Skills Index against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.