# Search First

> - Use before writing new code for a feature, utility, parser, validator, client, or integration — check whether it already exists in this repo, in current dependencies, or in the standard library. Triggers on add, implement, build, create, integrate, "search first", "check what we have", "is there a library for this". Not for bug fixes, refactors, renames, or tests of existing code.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-lachtan-search-first
- tashan id: skill:lachtan/search-first
- Source: https://github.com/lachtan/nicecode
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: 48.0 / 100
- Adoption: 17.0
- Upkeep: 80.0
- Freshness: 95.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r search-first ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.