skit-cli 0.1.0

Script launcher and parameter manager: pick a script, fill in a form, run — no more opening an IDE just to tweak constants.

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skit is a launcher and a home for your Python scripts.

skit stores your Python scripts in one place and makes them painless to launch.

AI writes the scripts. skit gives them a home.

What it does

• One home for your scripts. skit add collects scattered scripts into a searchable library — keep a copy in the library, or reference the original file.
• Parameters without the pain. Flags, input() calls, and the constants you tick become form fields (choices → pickers, booleans → checkboxes, types enforced).
• It remembers. Last-used values come back automatically; save favorites as named presets. Parameters marked secret never touch disk. Tokens like {cwd} and {today} keep presets portable.
• No environment mess. skit declares each script's dependencies in the script itself (PEP 723) and runs it through uv in an isolated, cached environment — no venvs to manage, nothing installed globally.
• Mouse or keyboard. Plain skit opens the full TUI; every key hint on screen is also a clickable button.
• Automation-ready. Every TUI action is also a CLI command with --json output and meaningful exit codes — for shell scripts, CI, and AI agents.
• Speaks your language. English, 繁體中文, and 简体中文, with more to come. See Languages.

Problem	What skit does
Scripts scattered all over the place	One central menu, with search
Scripts with weird external dependencies	An isolated environment per script — dependencies declared in the file (PEP 723), resolved by uv
CLI flags you forget ten minutes later, input() prompts, hard-coded constants meant to be edited by hand	Static analysis extracts them all into an interactive form — no code changes. Last-used values come prefilled; favorites save as presets.

Nothing to set up per script — no refactoring, no config to maintain. The script an AI wrote last week and the one you barely remember from last year launch the same way.

The library — every action on screen, mouse or keyboard	The run form — generated from the script's own parameters
Adding a script — parameters detected statically, tick to manage	Script settings — parameters, secrets, presets, dependencies

Fully mouse operable — every key hint on screen is also a button.

Install

skit is built on uv (tested against 0.11.26). Don't have it? skit asks first, then downloads a pinned uv into its own private directory — your PATH and global environment stay untouched. A system-wide install is still preferred.

# Install skit with uv tool from PyPI (the package is named skit-cli; the command is skit)
uv tool install skit-cli

In mainland China? Set the mirror by hand for this one command (details in Mainland China (中国大陆)):

export UV_DEFAULT_INDEX=https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
uv tool install skit-cli

Or install the latest dev version from the main branch.

uv tool install git+https://github.com/t41372/skit          # latest development version
uvx --from git+https://github.com/t41372/skit skit --help   # try it without installing

Update

uv tool upgrade skit-cli   # update to the latest release — also how you "check": it says up to date if you are
skit --version             # the version you're on

uv tool upgrade follows whatever source you installed from: PyPI installs track PyPI releases, git+… installs re-fetch the main branch.

Uninstall

uv tool uninstall skit-cli

That removes skit and its PATH shim. Your library and settings live outside the package, so they survive on purpose — reinstall and you're right back where you left off. To erase those too, delete skit's own directories:

OS	Directories
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/skit
Linux	~/.local/share/skit · ~/.local/state/skit · ~/.config/skit
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\skit

They hold your script library, config, presets, and last-used values — plus, if skit ever bootstrapped its own uv, the private uv binary (in …/skit/bin, deleted along with the rest).

# macOS
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/skit

# Linux — honors XDG_DATA_HOME / XDG_STATE_HOME / XDG_CONFIG_HOME if you've set them
rm -rf ~/.local/share/skit ~/.local/state/skit ~/.config/skit

# Windows (PowerShell)
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $env:LOCALAPPDATA\skit

Not sure where yours landed? skit doctor prints the resolved library path (and respects any SKIT_DATA_DIR / SKIT_STATE_DIR / SKIT_CONFIG_DIR overrides). That's everything skit owns — it never writes to your PATH, shell, or global uv config, so nothing else needs undoing. The uv download cache and any Python builds uv fetched are shared with the rest of your uv setup, not skit's to remove; if you don't use uv elsewhere and want the space back, uv cache clean clears the cache.

Usage

Two commands are the whole interface:

skit add my_script.py   # add a script
skit                    # open the menu, pick it, fill in the form, run

Everything else happens inside the TUI — on screen, mouse or keyboard, nothing to memorize.

The rest of the CLI exists for automation and AI agents — every TUI action, scriptable:

skit run my_script -p fast    # run with a saved preset
skit run my_script --dry-run  # print the exact command, don't run it
skit params my_script         # show managed parameters and last-used values
skit list --json              # machine-readable listing
skit config                   # settings: language, editor, mirror, form style
skit --help                   # everything else

Languages

Language	Status
English	✅ 100%, human-reviewed
繁體中文 (zh-TW)	✅ 100%, human-reviewed
简体中文 (zh-CN)	✅ 100%, human-reviewed

skit follows your system language; switch it in the TUI preferences (for automation: skit config lang zh-TW, or SKIT_LANG=zh-CN skit for one run).

Mainland China (中国大陆)

Three downloads tend to fail in mainland China: PyPI packages, the Python builds uv fetches from GitHub, and skit's own uv bootstrap. skit can route all three through domestic mirrors.

Mirror settings live inside skit only: your global uv config is never touched, and existing mirror settings (UV_DEFAULT_INDEX, uv.toml, …) are respected.

• First run: if PyPI/GitHub look unreachable, skit offers to turn mirrors on — just press Enter.
• Any time: TUI Preferences → mirror, or:

skit config mirror tsinghua   # or: aliyun / ustc / custom / off

Defaults: PyPI via Tsinghua / Aliyun / USTC; Python builds and the uv binary via NJU. Pick custom to swap any URL.

Why skit exists

skit began as an answer to a linux.do forum thread (in Chinese).

Development

Development runs entirely on uv — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the full workflow and quality gates (ruff, ty strict, 100% test coverage, mutation testing with mutmut, zizmor-audited workflows).

uv sync --dev
uv run pytest -q
uv run python scripts/serve_preview.py   # TUI web preview (textual-serve, localhost:8000)

License

MIT