How do I install the Find Software Developer Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

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ClaudSkills / Engineering / backend

Find Software Developer

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: backend · Last updated: 2026-05-21

type:integration

Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US software development firms — custom software, web development, mobile app development, backend/API development, DevOps/cloud, system integration, and hosting. Triggers on "find a software dev shop in Austin", "shortlist three custom-software firms with healthcare experience", "we need a mobile app developer for our iOS launch", or "pull contact info for these 10 dev shop domains", even when described indirectly (build a tool, ship a feature, technical partner). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Defer to find-web-developer for strictly website/landing-page projects. Defer AI/ML, ML pipelines, model building, and data-engineering asks — those are a sibling industry, not software development. Skip in-house engineer hires, code-writing/debugging tasks, cloud-product comparisons, hardware/civil engineering, non-US firms, individual freelancers.

From the source SKILL.md

Drive the ServiceGraph API (https://api.servicegraph.co) to find, shortlist, and enrich US software development firms. The catalog has tens of thousands of US IT-services firms tagged across 21 service sub-tags including web-development, mobile-app-development, api-integration, devops-services, cloud-services, system-integration, application-modernization, staff-augmentation, and managed-services. (Note: there is no custom-software or hosting tag — for those user-facing concepts, pin system-integration or application- modernization as the closest tag and add keywords like custom, software,…

What this skill does

Find Software Developer is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the backend sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US software development firms — custom software, web development, mobile app development, backend/API development, DevOps/cloud, system integration, and hosting. Triggers on "find a software dev shop in Austin", "shortlist three custom-software firms with healthcare experience", "we need a mobile app developer for our iOS launch", or "pull contact info for these 10 dev shop domains", even when described indirectly (build a tool, ship a feature, technical partner).

Who uses this skill

The Find Software Developer Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/find-software-developer/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/find-software-developer/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\find-software-developer\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/nostrband/ServiceGraph
License: MIT — see LICENSE
Author: Artur Briugeman (@nostrband) · servicegraph.co

One of 13 skills in the ServiceGraph plugin — drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co), a 100k+ catalog of US B2B professional-services firms.

Cite this skill

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APA

Artur Briugeman (@nostrband) · servicegraph.co. (2026). Find Software Developer [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/find-software-developer/

BibTeX

@misc{find-software-developer-2026,
  author    = {Artur Briugeman (@nostrband) · servicegraph.co},
  title     = {Find Software Developer [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/find-software-developer/}
}

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