Vector Skills Retriever

by davidliuk

Vector Skills Retriever is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by davidliuk in graph-of-skills.

205 stars26 forkson davidliuk/graph-of-skillsAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/08/30

View source on GitHub Download repo ZIP

claude-codeknowledge-graphskills

Install in seconds

Install Vector Skills Retriever

Copy Vector Skills Retriever 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/davidliuk/graph-of-skills/tree/main/skills/vector-skills-retriever ~/.claude/skills/vector-skills-retriever

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/davidliuk/graph-of-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/vector-skills-retriever/SKILL.md in davidliuk/graph-of-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/vector-skills-retriever
Collection: One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What Vector Skills Retriever does

Vector Skills Retriever finds a bounded bundle of relevant external skills from the local skill workspace using embedding similarity only. Use it when a task needs specialized knowledge, scripts, or references not already obvious from context.

Vector Skills Retriever is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Vector Skills Retriever comes from a repository tagged claude-code, knowledge-graph and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Purpose

Use this skill when the task likely needs specialized domain knowledge, scripts, or references that are not already obvious from the current context.

This retriever uses embedding similarity only. It does not use graph edges, graph propagation, or lexical expansion.

Retrieve Relevant Skills

Run:

OPENROUTER_API_KEY="${OPENROUTER_API_KEY:-$OPENAI_API_KEY}" \
OPENAI_API_KEY="${OPENROUTER_API_KEY:-$OPENAI_API_KEY}" \
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 \
GOS_EMBEDDING_MODEL=openai/text-embedding-3-large \
GOS_EMBEDDING_DIM=3072 \
vectorskills-query "short description of the task or current subproblem"

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

Frequently asked about Vector Skills Retriever

What else does davidliuk publish alongside Vector Skills Retriever?
Vector Skills Retriever is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from davidliuk/graph-of-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Graph Skills Retriever and Graph Skills Retriever. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Vector Skills Retriever does, and is maintained by davidliuk in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the davidliuk/graph-of-skills page.
How does Vector Skills Retriever compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Vector Skills Retriever ranks #2799 by stars among the 3101 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. 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 Vector Skills Retriever against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.