List Skills

get/v1/skills

List Skills

Query ParametersExpand Collapse

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 ParametersExpand Collapse

"anthropic-beta": optional array of AnthropicBeta

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

Accepts one of the following:

UnionMember0 = string

UnionMember1 = "message-batches-2024-09-24" or "prompt-caching-2024-07-31" or "computer-use-2024-10-22" or 16 more

Accepts one of the following:

"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"

ReturnsExpand Collapse

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.

List Skills

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 200

{
  "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="
}

Returns Examples

Response 200

{
  "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="
}

{ "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=" }