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@dees91 dees91 released this 17 Aug 12:50
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Skill Manager 0.5.0 Public Preview

This feature preview adds reusable task recipes, temporary task-specific skill
activation, and favorites for large local skill catalogs. It supersedes
v0.4.2 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or newer.

Downloads

  • skill-manager-desktop-0.5.0-macos-arm64.zip — Skill Manager.app with the
    Dashboard, Skills, Skill Sets, and Sources interfaces.
  • skill-manager-cli-0.5.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz — the skill-manager CLI/TUI,
    advisor activation API, README, MIT license, and third-party notices.
  • SHA256SUMS.txt — SHA-256 digests for both archives.

Download SHA256SUMS.txt with the artifacts and verify both archives from the
same directory:

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt

What Changed

  • Added Skill Sets to the macOS app. Save reusable, tool-agnostic skill
    recipes, preview their impact for Claude, Codex, or both, and stage them
    through the existing Pending/Apply workflow.
  • Added the optional first-party Skill Advisor and a path-free CLI
    inventory API. The advisor can activate the smallest relevant set of local
    inactive skills for one task and return an opaque receipt for explicit,
    drift-safe cleanup.
  • Added Favorites to the macOS Skills workspace. Star managed skills, find
    them with the Favorites filter, and keep them ahead of other skills without
    changing their ON/OFF state.
  • Preserved missing Skill Set members and favorite names so they reconnect when
    a skill with the same basename is installed again.
  • Refreshed the public demo and dashboard imagery to reflect the current
    interface.

Desktop Installation

  1. Expand skill-manager-desktop-0.5.0-macos-arm64.zip.
  2. Move Skill Manager.app to /Applications.
  3. Control-click the application, choose Open, and confirm Open.

The application is ad-hoc signed but not Developer ID signed or notarized. If
macOS does not offer Open, try a normal launch once, then use System
Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway after verifying the checksum and
that this release came from the expected repository.

CLI Installation

tar -xzf skill-manager-cli-0.5.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz
install -m 0755 \
  skill-manager-cli-0.5.0-macos-arm64/skill-manager \
  "$HOME/.local/bin/skill-manager"
skill-manager --version

The expected version output is skill-manager 0.5.0.

The Skill Advisor remains opt-in. After installing the CLI, install the
first-party skill for either provider from this repository:

skill-manager install https://github.com/dees91/agent-skill-manager \
  --tool both --skill skill-advisor

Preview Limitations

  • This is a public preview, not a stable release.
  • Only Apple Silicon macOS 13 or newer is supported by these binaries.
  • There is no Developer ID signature, notarization, universal binary, DMG,
    auto-update, telemetry, SBOM, or build provenance attestation.
  • Experimental skills.sh Discover code is not exposed in this build.
  • Already running Claude Code or Codex sessions may need to be restarted after
    skill visibility changes.
  • Third-party skills contain instructions that Skill Manager does not audit or
    sandbox. Review their source before installing them.
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