Networking Discovery

by rand

Networking Discovery is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by rand in cc-polymath.

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Install Networking Discovery

Copy Networking Discovery 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/rand/cc-polymath/tree/main/skills/discover-networking ~/.claude/skills/discover-networking

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/rand/cc-polymath.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/discover-networking/SKILL.md in rand/cc-polymath
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/discover-networking
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2109 skills

What Networking Discovery does

Networking Discovery automatically activates for TCP, UDP, DNS, SSH, Tailscale, and related connectivity work. Use it to load the right networking subskills for protocol, resilience, proxy, and tunneling tasks.

Networking Discovery is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Networking Discovery comes from a repository tagged ai, claude-code and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Networking Skills Discovery

Provides automatic access to comprehensive networking skills.

When This Skill Activates

This skill auto-activates when you're working with:

networking
SSH
mTLS
NAT traversal
VPN
Tailscale
network resilience
connection reliability
HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3
TCP, UDP, QUIC
network protocols
protocol debugging
protocol selection
network communication
web protocols
transport layer
application layer protocols
Forward/reverse proxies
HTTP proxy configuration
Nginx, Traefik, Envoy, Caddy
Load balancing
SSL/TLS termination
HTTP caching and CDN
Cache invalidation
NATS messaging
Service mesh patterns

Available Skills

Quick Reference

The Networking category contains 20 skills across 3 subcategories:

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

Frequently asked about Networking Discovery

What else does rand publish alongside Networking Discovery?
Networking Discovery is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rand/cc-polymath, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Discovery, Agentic Workflow Discovery and Anti-Slop. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Networking Discovery does, and is maintained by rand in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rand/cc-polymath page.
How does Networking Discovery compare to other Automation skills?
Networking Discovery ranks #1958 by stars among the 2109 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 Networking Discovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.