---
title: List Skills
url: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/cli/skills/list
---

# List Skills

`$ ant skills list`

**GET** `/v1/skills`

List Skills

## Parameters

- `--limit: optional number` (query parameter)

  Number of results to return per page.

  Ranges from `1` to `1000`. Defaults to `20`.

  minimum: 1, maximum: 1000

- `--page: optional string` (query parameter)

  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` (query parameter)

  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

- `--workspace-id: optional string` (header parameter)

  Optional header to select the Workspace for this request. The value is a Workspace ID (for example, `wrkspc_011CZkZaBF1tNoB5wlCeusgy`).

  Only needed for credentials that can act on more than one Workspace. A credential that belongs to a specific Workspace may omit it; if sent, it must match that Workspace.

## Returns

- `ListSkillsResponse: object`

  - `data: array of Skill`

    List of skills.

    - `type: "skill"`

      Object type.

      For Skills, this is always `"skill"`.

    - `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.

      format: date-time

    - `display_name: string`

      Human-readable, single-line label for the Skill. Maximum 255 characters.
      Always set: derived from the SKILL.md frontmatter `name` when omitted at
      creation. Not unique.

    - `latest_version_id: string`

      ID of the newest Skill Version — what `latest` references resolve to. Always set: a Skill holds at least one version.

    - `source: object`

      Where the Skill comes from.

      Possible values:

      * `"custom"`: authored by the platform user; private to their workspace
      * `"anthropic"`: published by Anthropic; shared and read-only
      * `"anthropic_example"`: Anthropic-published sample Skill
      * `"plugin"`: resolved from an installed plugin

      - `type: "custom" or "anthropic" or "anthropic_example" or "plugin"`

        Where the Skill comes from.

        Possible values:

        * `"custom"`: authored by the platform user; private to their workspace
        * `"anthropic"`: published by Anthropic; shared and read-only
        * `"anthropic_example"`: Anthropic-published sample Skill
        * `"plugin"`: resolved from an installed plugin

        - `"custom"`

        - `"anthropic"`

        - `"anthropic_example"`

        - `"plugin"`

    - `updated_at: string`

      ISO 8601 timestamp of when the skill was last updated.

      format: date-time

  - `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` parameter in the next request to get the next page.

## Example

```bash
ant skills list \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key
```

### Response (200)

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "skill_01JAbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw",
      "created_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z",
      "display_name": "display_name",
      "latest_version_id": "latest_version_id",
      "source": {
        "type": "custom"
      },
      "type": "skill",
      "updated_at": "2024-10-30T23:58:27.427722Z"
    }
  ],
  "next_page": "next_page"
}
```