Claude Code Skills Manager

A TUI checkbox tool for enabling/disabling Claude Code skills. Skills disabled here won't be loaded into the system prompt on new sessions.

Why

~/.claude/skills/ can accumulate hundreds of skill directories. Each skill's YAML frontmatter (~100 tokens) loads into every session's system prompt. This tool lets you disable skills you don't need and re-enable them when you do.

How It Works

• Disable: mv ~/.claude/skills/<name> ~/.claude/skills/.disabled/<name>
• Enable: mv ~/.claude/skills/.disabled/<name> ~/.claude/skills/<name>

Claude Code doesn't scan .disabled/, so moved skills won't load.

Install

cargo build --release
cp target/release/skills-toggle ~/.local/bin/
# or add an alias
alias skills='~/path/to/skills-toggle'

Usage

Interactive (TUI)

skills-toggle

Opens a full-screen checkbox list:

  Claude Code Skills Manager

  > [x] bun
    [x] claude-skills-basics     *
    [ ] actix-web-basics         *
    [ ] actix-web-database       *
    [x] deep-modules
    [x] nextjs

  Enabled: 280  |  Disabled: 35  |  Changed: 4  [1/315]
  ↑/↓:Navigate  Space:Toggle  a:All  n:None  /:Filter  Enter:Apply  q:Quit

• [x] green = enabled, [ ] red = disabled
• * yellow = changed this session
• Changes only apply when you press Enter and confirm

Keys

Key	Action
↑/↓ or j/k	Navigate
Space	Toggle current skill
PgUp/PgDn	Page up/down
g / G	Jump to top / bottom
a	Enable all (filtered)
n	Disable all (filtered)
/	Search filter
Enter	Review & apply changes
q / Esc	Quit without saving

Batch Mode

# Disable all actix skills
skills-toggle disable 'actix-*'

# Enable all flutter skills
skills-toggle enable 'flutter-*'

# Multiple patterns at once
skills-toggle disable 'axum-*' 'tokio-*'

# Specific skills by name
skills-toggle disable actix-web-basics actix-web-database

# Preview without executing
skills-toggle disable 'spring-*' --dry-run

Supports * (any chars) and ? (single char) glob patterns. Case-insensitive.

Non-interactive

# List all skills and status
skills-toggle --list

# Interactive TUI but don't execute (show mv commands)
skills-toggle --dry-run

Safety

• Toggle operations only change in-memory state
• Changes require explicit Enter + confirmation to apply
• q / Esc / Ctrl+C exits without saving
• Alternate screen buffer preserves your terminal scrollback
• Terminal state is always restored on exit (including panics)