skill-search — the first step of every task

Most installed skills are deliberately hidden from the host's skill listing: Claude Code lists descriptions within a small budget and the operator marks most skills user-invocable-only; Codex marks them enabled = false. The listing is therefore not the catalogue. Search the catalogue.

The step

1. Restate the request in one line — what the operator wants done, in your words. This line is the meaning you search for, not the literal phrasing.
2. Decide whether a skill could help. None for a question, an explanation, or a one-line edit — say so and proceed. Everything else continues.
3. Turn the meaning into concepts: 3–8 short terms in English AND Russian, plus synonyms and the artifact involved (pdf, документ, extract text, извлечь текст). Name the domain, not the verb alone.
4. Search the whole catalogue: