File Search Skill
SkillSearchSearches for files by name, extension, size, or content using powerful system tools like grep or find.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the File Search Skill skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by next-open-ai/openclawx in presets/workspaces/file-assistant/skills/file-search/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use this skill to recursively search for files or file contents within a specified directory.
Workflow
- Identify the user's search criteria:
- By name/extension pattern (e.g., "*.md")
- By content (e.g., "contains the word 'auth'")
- By metadata (e.g., "modified in the last 7 days", "larger than 10MB")
- Formulate the appropriate
bashcommand:- Use
find <dir> -name "*.ext" -type fto search by name. - Use
grep -rn "pattern" <dir>orrg "pattern" <dir>(if ripgrep is available) to search by content. - Use
find <dir> -mtime -7 -size +10Mto search by metadata.
- Use
- Execute the command using the
bashtool. - Process the output and present the results clearly to the user.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 56
- Forks
- 13
- Last commit
- Jun 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
file-search-next-open-ai- Source
- github.com/next-open-ai/openclawx