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get_skill_details

Retrieve detailed information about specific skills including documentation content, file paths, and directory structure to enable comprehensive skill analysis and file access.

Instructions

Get detailed information about a specific skill.

This tool provides the full SKILL.md content and/or file path, along with a recursive list of all files contained within the skill's directory. LLMs should use get_skill_related_file() to read the content of specific files.

Parameters

skill_name : str The name of the skill (from get_available_skills). return_type : str Type of data to return: "content" (default), "file_path", or "both". - "content": Returns only the SKILL.md content as text - "file_path": Returns only the absolute path to SKILL.md - "both": Returns both content and file path in a dict

Returns

dict[str, any] Dictionary containing: - skill_content: Full text or path of SKILL.md (based on return_type) - files: List of relative file paths in the skill directory

Raises

ValueError If the skill is not found or return_type is invalid.

Examples

details = get_skill_details("single-cell-rna-qc", return_type="content") print(details["files"]) ['SKILL.md', 'scripts/qc_analysis.py', ...]

Input Schema

NameRequiredDescriptionDefault
skill_nameYes
return_typeNoboth

Input Schema (JSON Schema)

{ "properties": { "return_type": { "default": "both", "type": "string" }, "skill_name": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "skill_name" ], "type": "object" }

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