Claude Skills Manager (csm)

A CLI tool to manage Claude Code skills in ~/.claude/skills/.

Skills are directories containing a SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter. csm lets you list, enable/disable, create, link, and configure them without manually editing files.

Installation

# With uv (recommended)
uv tool install claude-skills-manager

# With pipx
pipx install claude-skills-manager

The csm command will be available globally after installation.

Usage

List all skills

csm list

Shows a table with each skill's name, enabled status, description, and invocation settings.

Show skill details

csm show <name>

Prints the full frontmatter and markdown content of a skill.

Enable / Disable

csm disable <name>   # renames SKILL.md → SKILL.md.disabled
csm enable <name>    # renames SKILL.md.disabled → SKILL.md

Create a new skill

csm create my-skill --desc "Does something useful"

Scaffolds a new skill directory with a template SKILL.md in ~/.claude/skills/.

Edit a skill

csm edit <name>

Opens the skill's SKILL.md in $EDITOR (defaults to vi).

Link / Unlink external skills

# Symlink a skill from another directory (uses relative paths, compatible with GNU Stow)
csm link /path/to/my-skill

# Symlink with a custom name
csm link /path/to/my-skill --name custom-name

# Remove a symlink (does not delete the original directory)
csm unlink <name>

Toggle skills interactively

csm toggle

Opens an interactive checkbox prompt where you can toggle multiple skills on/off at once. Use arrow keys to navigate, space to toggle, and enter to confirm.

Configure frontmatter

# Set a key
csm config <name> --key disable-model-invocation --value true

# Delete a key
csm config <name> --key some-key --delete

Shell completion

csm --install-completion

Enables tab completion for commands and skill names in your shell.

How it works

• Skills are discovered by scanning ~/.claude/skills/ for directories containing SKILL.md or SKILL.md.disabled
• Enable/disable toggles the file extension
• Frontmatter is parsed and written with python-frontmatter for safe YAML round-tripping
• Symlinked skill directories are fully supported

Development

git clone https://github.com/danielmeint/skills-manager.git
cd claude-skills-manager
uv sync
uv run pytest

License

MIT