List Skills

get /v1/skills

List Skills

Query Parameters

• limit: optional number

  Number of results to return per page.

  Maximum value is 100. Defaults to 20.

• page: optional string

  Pagination token for fetching a specific page of results.

  Pass the value from a previous response's next_page field to get the next page of results.

• source: optional string

  Filter skills by source.

  If provided, only skills from the specified source will be returned:

  • "custom": only return user-created skills
  • "anthropic": only return Anthropic-created skills

Header Parameters

• "anthropic-beta": optional array of AnthropicBeta

  Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.

  • string

  • "message-batches-2024-09-24" or "prompt-caching-2024-07-31" or "computer-use-2024-10-22" or 22 more

    • "message-batches-2024-09-24"

    • "prompt-caching-2024-07-31"

    • "computer-use-2024-10-22"

    • "computer-use-2025-01-24"

    • "pdfs-2024-09-25"

    • "token-counting-2024-11-01"

    • "token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"

    • "output-128k-2025-02-19"

    • "files-api-2025-04-14"

    • "mcp-client-2025-04-04"

    • "mcp-client-2025-11-20"

    • "dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"

    • "interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"

    • "code-execution-2025-05-22"

    • "extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"

    • "context-1m-2025-08-07"

    • "context-management-2025-06-27"

    • "model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"

    • "skills-2025-10-02"

    • "fast-mode-2026-02-01"

    • "output-300k-2026-03-24"

    • "user-profiles-2026-03-24"

    • "advisor-tool-2026-03-01"

    • "managed-agents-2026-04-01"

    • "cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"

Returns

• data: array of object { id, created_at, display_title, 4 more }

  List of skills.

  • id: string

    Unique identifier for the skill.

    The format and length of IDs may change over time.

  • created_at: string

    ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was created.

  • display_title: string

    Display title for the skill.

    This is a human-readable label that is not included in the prompt sent to the model.

  • latest_version: string

    The latest version identifier for the skill.

    This represents the most recent version of the skill that has been created.

  • source: string

    Source of the skill.

    This may be one of the following values:

    • "custom": the skill was created by a user
    • "anthropic": the skill was created by Anthropic

  • type: string

    Object type.

    For Skills, this is always "skill".

  • updated_at: string

    ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was last updated.

• has_more: boolean

  Whether there are more results available.

  If true, there are additional results that can be fetched using the next_page token.

• next_page: string

  Token for fetching the next page of results.

  If null, there are no more results available. Pass this value to the page_token parameter in the next request to get the next page.

Example

curl https://api.anthropic.com/v1/skills \
    -H 'anthropic-version: 2023-06-01' \
    -H 'anthropic-beta: skills-2025-10-02' \
    -H "X-Api-Key: $ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
      "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
      "display_title": "My Custom Skill",
      "latest_version": "1759178010641129",
      "source": "custom",
      "type": "type",
      "updated_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": true,
  "next_page": "page_MjAyNS0wNS0xNFQwMDowMDowMFo="
}