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Find a skill already installed on your machine

If you already installed a skill and just want to check it, you do not need to go back to wherever you first got it from. It is sitting in a folder on your machine. This walks through where to look on each platform, and the commands to list it and zip it up.

Nothing here downloads anything or runs the skill. Every command below only lists files or zips a folder you already have.

Claude Code on macOS or Linux

Claude Code keeps your personal skills under your home folder, and any project you have opened can also carry its own skills folder alongside its code.

This lists the skill folders so you can see their names:

  • ls ~/.claude/skills

If you opened Claude Code inside a specific project, that project may also have its own skills, checked in alongside the code:

  • ls .claude/skills

No zipping needed for the Folder option on Skill Check: it picks up the folder directly. In the file picker, press Cmd+Shift+G and paste ~/.claude/skills/my-skill to jump straight there (Cmd+Shift+. toggles hidden folders if you would rather browse).

If you would rather use the ZIP option instead, this zips the folder to your Desktop:

  • cd ~/.claude/skills && zip -r ~/Desktop/my-skill.zip my-skill

Claude Code on Windows

On Windows, Claude Code keeps skills under your user profile. Open PowerShell and this lists them:

  • dir $env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills

No zipping needed for the Folder option on Skill Check: it picks up the folder directly. In the file picker, type %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills into the address bar to jump straight there.

If you would rather use the ZIP option instead, this zips a chosen skill folder to your Desktop:

  • Compress-Archive -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\skills\my-skill" -DestinationPath "$env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\my-skill.zip"

Codex

Codex commonly keeps skills under your home folder in a similar layout. This lists them:

  • ls ~/.codex/skills

The exact location can vary by version and setup. If that folder does not exist or is empty, check your Codex configuration for where it points skills at, then list that folder instead.

This zips a chosen skill folder to your Desktop:

  • cd ~/.codex/skills && zip -r ~/Desktop/my-skill.zip my-skill

A worked example

Worked example

Finding and zipping a skill called "commit-helper" on macOS.

List
ls ~/.claude/skills shows commit-helper alongside a couple of other folders.
Zip
cd ~/.claude/skills && zip -r ~/Desktop/commit-helper.zip commit-helper creates commit-helper.zip on the Desktop.
Upload
That ZIP is dropped straight into the ZIP option on Skill Check.

The same two steps, list then zip, work the same way on every platform above.

Claude Desktop

Claude Desktop manages skills in-app rather than as plain folders on disk, so there is no equivalent local folder to list or zip the same way. If you installed a skill there, the review path is either the original source folder you installed it from, if you still have it, or pasting the SKILL.md content directly using the Paste option on Skill Check.

Found the folder? Upload it, or paste the SKILL.md if that is all you can get to.

Open Skill Check