by ssssssanjiu
A local web panel for managing Claude Code skills — paste a GitHub URL to install, symlink-hosted with zero copies, plus a daily feed of newly published skills. Zero dependencies.
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Last scanned: 9/29/2026
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skill_manager is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by ssssssanjiu. A local web panel for managing Claude Code skills — paste a GitHub URL to install, symlink-hosted with zero copies, plus a daily feed of newly published skills. Zero dependencies. It has 50 GitHub stars.
Yes. skill_manager passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/ssssssanjiu/skill_manager" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
skill_manager is primarily written in JavaScript. It is open-source under ssssssanjiu on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh skill_manager against similar tools.
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Claude Code loads skills from ~/.claude/skills. That works fine for three of them. Past a dozen, you stop knowing what is installed, where it came from, or which copy is the real one. Installing a new skill means cloning a repo, digging for the SKILL.md, and moving a directory to exactly the right path.
Skill Manager puts all of it on one page. Every skill it can see, grouped by what it does, with its state on the card. Installing is a paste and a click. Nothing is copied anywhere: your skills stay in a git repository you control, and ~/.claude/skills holds only symlinks pointing at it.
Requires Node 18 or newer and
giton yourPATH. The panel itself runs anywhere Node runs. The always-on service uses launchd and the menu bar uses SwiftBar, both macOS only. The daily discover job supports macOS and Linux.
| The problem | What the panel does |
|---|---|
You have no idea what is installed without running ls |
One page, everything listed, grouped by function |
| Installing a skill means clone, hunt, move, hope | Paste a GitHub URL, click install |
Skills live loose in ~/.claude/skills, outside version control |
Real files stay in a git repo, only symlinks go into Claude's directory |
The third row is the one that matters. my-skills/ is the source of truth and it is tracked by git. Claude Code reads through symlinks and never knows the difference. Edit a skill once and it is live immediately, with full history behind it.
The panel scans ~/.claude/skills and the library directories, reads each SKILL.md frontmatter for its name and description, and infers a category from keywords. Skills that live only in ~/.claude/skills, dropped there by hand, show up too.
Each card carries one of three states:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Installed | A symlink exists and Claude Code can load it |
| Not installed | Present in the library, no symlink yet |
| Provided by plugin | Already supplied by the official plugin marketplace, so linking it would collide |
Long descriptions collapse behind a toggle. The list re-renders only when the underlying data actually changes, not on every poll.
Paste a repository URL, click install. The panel clones it into my-skills/, finds the SKILL.md whether it sits at the repo root or one level down, and symlinks the right directory into ~/.claude/skills/.
Removing a skill unlinks it. The source directory is left alone.
~/.claude/skills/design-style-parser ──symlink──► <repo>/my-skills/design-style-parser
└── tracked by git
No copies to keep in sync, no "which version is the real one". Claude Code follows the link, git watches the file.
A second tab aggregates newly published skills once a day, filterable by All, Trending, and AI startup.
| Source | How | Reliability |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Real Search API, ranked by stars and recent activity | Solid, and installable in one click |
| YouTube | Parses the search page without an API key, degrades on failure | Best effort |
| X / Xiaohongshu / Jike | No free API, curated by hand in manual.json plus deep links |
Manual |
Every source is wrapped in its own timeout and error handler, so one failing source never takes the page down. Without a token, GitHub requests are spaced 6.5 seconds apart to stay under the rate limit. Set GITHUB_TOKEN and that restriction essentially disappears.
A launchd agent keeps the backend alive, restarts it if it crashes, and starts it at login. A SwiftBar plugin puts the installed count in your menu bar, with shortcuts to open the panel, refresh the discover feed, and restart the backend. If the backend is down, the menu offers to start it.
No npm install, no lockfile, no supply chain to audit. Node's standard library only, roughly 42 KB of source across the backend, the frontend, and the fetcher. Paths are derived at runtime from the script's own location, so cloning it anywhere works.
git clone https://github.com/ssssssanjiu/skill_manager.git
cd skill_manager
node manager/server.js
Open http://localhost:4317 .
Starts at login, restarts on crash:
bash manager/setup-panel.sh
Uninstall with bash manager/setup-panel.sh uninstall. The agent is labelled com.claude-skills.panel and logs to manager/panel.log.
Point SwiftBar's plugin directory at manager/swiftbar/. The script needs menu.js beside it, so do not symlink the shell script on its own.
Runs once a day at 09:00, launchd on macOS and cron on Linux:
bash manager/discover/setup-cron.sh
The backend is a plain JSON API on port 4317. Useful if you want to script it.
| Method | Path | Body | Does |
|---|---|---|---|
GET |
/api/skills |
— | Every skill, its state, category and source |
POST |
/api/install |
{ "url": "..." } |
Clone a repo into the library and link it |
POST |
/api/link |
{ "name": "..." } |
Symlink a skill already in the library |
POST |
/api/unlink |
{ "name": "..." } |
Remove the symlink, keep the source |
GET |
/api/discover |
— | Read the cached discover feed |
POST |
/api/discover/refresh |
— | Re-run the fetcher, 90s timeout |
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
PORT |
4317 |
Port the panel listens on |
GITHUB_TOKEN |
unset | Lifts the GitHub rate limit for the discover feed |
skill_manager/
├── my-skills/ # Your skills. Source of truth, git-tracked, symlinked into Claude Code
└── manager/
├── server.js # Zero-dependency backend
├── index.html # Single-file frontend
├── setup-panel.sh # launchd always-on service
├── swiftbar/ # Menu bar plugin
└── discover/ # Discover feed fetcher and daily job
~/.claude/skills. Keep it on localhost; do not expose it to a network.SKILL.md at the repo root or one level down. Deeper nesting is not detected.MIT, see LICENSE.