Manage your own agent skills. No registry, no tracking.

Install

Copy/paste into your CLI prompt:

Install the skills-manager skill from https://github.com/pateroski/skills-manager, refer to the repo's AGENTS.md for setup instructions.

Or manually:

git clone https://github.com/pateroski/skills-manager /tmp/skills-manager-src
cp -R /tmp/skills-manager-src ~/.agents/skills/skills-manager
rm -rf ~/.agents/skills/skills-manager/.git
ln -s ~/.agents/skills/skills-manager/scripts/skills-manager ~/.local/bin/skills-manager

Requires uv and git. Also installable with npx skills add pateroski/skills-manager.

What it does

Install, update, remove, and track SKILL.md folders across Claude Code, OpenCode, and any harness that reads ~/.agents/skills — with a JSON manifest (skills-manifest.json) as the single source of truth, so you always know what you have, where it came from, and whether you've edited it.

skills-manager init -n      # adopt an existing skills folder (preview first)
skills-manager status       # what do I have, where from, any drift?
skills-manager update -n    # what's outdated? (exit 2 if anything)
skills-manager update       # interactive apply
skills-manager add owner/repo
skills-manager remove NAME  # moved to backup, never rm -rf

Channels

Channel	Upstream	Update behavior
git	any git repo (GitHub, GitLab, gists, local paths)	fetch, diff, interactive apply with commit pinning
cli	a tool owns the skill set (e.g. hyperframes, plannotator)	delegates to that tool's refresh command, or hands-off
disk	a path on disk (one-way sync)	syncs when the source is present
local	none	never touched

Why not just re-download?

Because you edit your skills. Every install records a content hash; update diffs your disk against it and asks before touching anything you changed. hold skills require typing overwrite. Breaking changes (major bumps, BREAKING commits, trigger changes) are flagged and never auto-applied. Nothing is ever deleted — old trees go to ~/.cache/skills-manager/backups/.

Untracked skill? Find its upstream

skills-manager discover --json   # research brief: distinctive phrases, URL hints, queries
skills-manager set-source <name> --repo <URL>

Feed the brief to your agent's search tools; record only verified sources.

Docs

• SKILL.md — the agent-facing instructions
• AGENTS.md — how an AI should set this up and work on the repo

License

MIT.