Source Management
OfficialAnthropics' source-management intelligently organizes, prioritizes, and retrieves relevant data from diverse sources for optimal task completion.
Install on your platform
Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.
- 1
Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill source-management -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
anthropics
Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.
Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins at da38ec1ee8.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- da38ec1ee8
- Scanned
- 1 file, 154 lines
About this skill
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to discover, install, and manage external tools and plugins required for specific tasks. It streamlines the workflow by allowing agents to dynamically acquire necessary capabilities from a registry like TrustedSkills without manual intervention.
When to use it
- You need an agent to access specialized libraries or APIs not included in its base configuration.
- Your workflow requires dynamic tooling that changes based on project requirements.
- You want to automate the setup of complex environments by letting the agent fetch dependencies.
- You are building a multi-agent system where different agents require distinct, managed toolsets.
Key capabilities
- Discovery: Locates available skills and tools within the TrustedSkills registry.
- Installation: Automatically installs required plugins or libraries to extend agent functionality.
- Management: Handles versioning and configuration of external dependencies for consistent performance.
Example prompts
- "Install the
source-managementskill so you can access the latest knowledge-work-plugins." - "Discover what tools are available for data analysis and install the most relevant ones."
- "Configure my environment by fetching and managing the necessary plugins from the registry."
Tips & gotchas
Ensure your AI agent has network access to reach the TrustedSkills registry, as installation requires external connectivity. Verify that installed plugins are compatible with your specific runtime environment before relying on them for critical tasks.