one-skills-manager

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Manage and sync AI agent skills, rules, and MCP servers across Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and shared .agents targets from a single central store.

Features:

• 🧭 Interactive Mode - Guided menu-driven UI for all common workflows
• 📊 Status Dashboard - See exactly what's in sync at a glance
• 📦 Skills - Install once, symlink everywhere
• 📝 Rules - Manage custom rules/memories across agents
• 🔌 MCP Servers - Configure Model Context Protocol servers with guided wizard
• 👤 Profiles - Different configurations for work, personal, etc.
• 📥 Import - Import existing configs from any agent
• 🔄 Sync Tracking - Know when each agent was last synced

Installation

pip install one-skills-manager

Or with uv:

uv tool install one-skills-manager

Quick Start

The easiest way to get started is the interactive mode — just run the command with no arguments:

one-skills

This launches a guided menu for every common workflow. Or use the direct commands:

# Check what's installed and in sync
one-skills status

# Import your existing Cursor configuration
one-skills import cursor --dry-run  # inspect what would be imported
one-skills import cursor

# Create a profile and add agents
one-skills profile create work
one-skills profile add-agent cursor --profile work
one-skills profile add-agent windsurf --profile work
one-skills profile activate work

# Sync everything to your active profile's agents
one-skills sync

Core Concepts

Profiles

Profiles let you maintain different configurations for different contexts (work, personal, etc.). Each profile can:

• Enable specific agents
• Configure which MCP servers are available
• Override MCP server transports per agent
• Exclude specific MCP servers per agent

Central Storage

Everything is stored once in ~/.one-skills/:

• Skills: ~/.one-skills/skills/<skill-name>/
• Rules: ~/.one-skills/rules/<rule-name>
• MCP Servers: ~/.one-skills/mcp.json
• Profiles: ~/.one-skills/profiles.json

When you sync, symlinks are created from each agent's directory to the central store.

Usage

Interactive Mode

Run one-skills with no arguments (or one-skills ui) to launch the interactive guided menu:

one-skills      # launch interactive mode
one-skills ui   # explicit alias

The menu provides guided flows for:

• Status — dashboard of everything installed and synced
• Add skill — install from URL or local path, then choose agents interactively
• Add rule — install a rule file, then choose agents interactively
• Add MCP server — step-by-step wizard (transport type, package, env vars, profile assignment)
• Manage profile — add/remove agents and MCP servers from a profile
• Sync — choose scope (all/skills/rules/MCP) and agents, with optional dry-run

Status

See the full state of your installation at a glance:

one-skills status

Output includes:

• Active profile, enabled agents, and last synced time
• Each skill with per-agent symlink status (✓ synced, ○ not linked, ✗ broken)
• Each rule with per-agent status (including ☁ for cloud-based Cursor rules)
• MCP servers with profile assignment and available transports

Exits with code 1 if anything is out of sync — useful as a chezmoi post-apply hook.

Import Existing Configuration

Import from an existing agent installation:

# Preview what would be imported
one-skills import cursor --dry-run

# Import skills, rules, and MCP servers
one-skills import cursor
one-skills import windsurf
one-skills import codex
one-skills import claude-code

Profile Management

# Create a new profile
one-skills profile create personal

# List all profiles
one-skills profile list

# Show profile details
one-skills profile show personal

# Activate a profile
one-skills profile activate personal

# Add an agent to a profile
one-skills profile add-agent cursor --profile personal

# Remove an agent from a profile
one-skills profile remove-agent cursor --profile personal

# Delete a profile
one-skills profile delete personal

Skills

# Install from GitHub — prompts to choose agents interactively when run in a terminal
one-skills skill install https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/skill-name

# Install from local path
one-skills skill install ~/my-skills/skill-name

# Install and assign to specific agents (non-interactive / scripting)
one-skills skill install https://github.com/owner/repo/tree/main/skill-name --agents cursor,windsurf

# Install without assigning (skip the prompt)
one-skills skill install ~/my-skills/skill-name --no-assign

# List all skills
one-skills list

# Assign to agents
one-skills skill assign skill-name cursor,windsurf

# Unassign from agents
one-skills skill unassign skill-name cursor

# Remove a skill
one-skills skill remove skill-name

Rules

# Install a rule — prompts to choose agents interactively when run in a terminal
one-skills rule install ~/rules/my-rule.md

# Install and assign to specific agents (non-interactive / scripting)
one-skills rule install ~/rules/my-rule.md --agents claude-code,codex

# Install without assigning (skip the prompt)
one-skills rule install ~/rules/my-rule.md --no-assign

# List all rules
one-skills rule list

# Assign to agents
one-skills rule assign my-rule.md cursor

# Unassign from agents
one-skills rule unassign my-rule.md cursor

# Remove a rule
one-skills rule remove my-rule.md

MCP Servers

The easiest way to add a server is the guided wizard, which walks through transport type, package/URL, env vars, and profile assignment in one flow:

# Interactive wizard (prompts for all details)
one-skills mcp add-server my-server

# Non-interactive shortcuts for scripting
one-skills mcp add-server my-server --npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-github
one-skills mcp add-server my-server --uvx mcp-server-git --description "Git MCP"
one-skills mcp add-server my-server --sse https://example.com/sse
one-skills mcp add-server my-server --http https://example.com/mcp

# Optionally assign to a profile in the same command
one-skills mcp add-server my-server --npx my-pkg --profile personal

Other MCP commands:

# List all MCP servers
one-skills mcp list

# Show details for a server
one-skills mcp show my-server

# Add server to a profile (after creation)
one-skills profile add-server my-server default --profile personal

# Override transport for a specific agent
one-skills profile set-override cursor my-server docker --profile personal

# Exclude a server from an agent
one-skills profile exclude-server cursor my-server --profile personal

# Remove a server
one-skills mcp remove my-server

Low-level commands: one-skills mcp add and one-skills mcp add-transport are still available for scripted/advanced use.

Sync

Sync skills, rules, and MCP servers to agents in your active profile:

# Sync everything
one-skills sync

# Dry-run to preview changes
one-skills sync --dry-run

# Sync only to a specific agent
one-skills sync --agent cursor

# Sync only skills
one-skills sync --skills-only

# Sync only rules
one-skills sync --rules-only

# Sync only MCP servers
one-skills sync --mcp-only

Other Commands

# Show sync status dashboard
one-skills status

# Launch interactive guided mode
one-skills ui

# List supported agents
one-skills agents

# List all installed resources
one-skills list

# Show version
one-skills --version

Supported Agents

shared is a sync target for shared skills/rules only. MCP sync is intentionally skipped for this agent.

MCP Server Transports

MCP servers can use different transport mechanisms:

• stdio: Local process (command + args + env)
• sse: Server-Sent Events (url + headers)
• http: HTTP (url + headers)

You can define multiple transports for the same server and override which transport each agent uses via profiles.

Example Workflow

# 1. Import your existing Cursor setup
one-skills import cursor

# 2. Create work and personal profiles
one-skills profile create work
one-skills profile create personal

# 3. Configure work profile
one-skills profile activate work
one-skills profile add-agent cursor --profile work
one-skills profile add-agent windsurf --profile work

# Add work-specific MCP servers to profile
one-skills profile add-server github-mcp-server default --profile work
one-skills profile add-server jira-server default --profile work

# 4. Configure personal profile
one-skills profile activate personal
one-skills profile add-agent claude-code --profile personal
one-skills profile add-agent codex --profile personal

# Exclude work servers from personal profile
one-skills profile exclude-server claude-code jira-server --profile personal

# 5. Sync to active profile
one-skills sync

# 6. Switch contexts
one-skills profile activate work
one-skills sync

How It Works

1. Central Storage: Skills, rules, and MCP configs are stored once in ~/.one-skills/
2. Profiles: Define which agents and MCP servers are active for different contexts
3. Symlinks: Skills and rules are symlinked from central storage to each agent's directory
4. MCP Rendering: MCP configs are rendered per-agent based on profile settings
5. Sync Tracking: Each agent tracks when it was last synced (visible in profile show and status)
6. Interactive Mode: one-skills (no args) launches a guided menu for all common workflows
7. Status Dashboard: one-skills status shows symlink health and profile assignments; exits 1 if out of sync (useful for chezmoi hooks)

Configuration Files

All configuration is stored in ~/.one-skills/:

• config.json - Skills and rules registry
• mcp.json - MCP servers and transports
• profiles.json - Profile configurations
• skills/ - Skill directories
• rules/ - Rule files

Paths are stored using ~/ for portability across machines.

License

MIT