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@dees91 dees91 released this 16 Sep 10:50
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Skill Manager 0.8.0 Public Preview

This feature preview reports skills that a managed Git repository gained after
you installed it and makes them one step to install. It supersedes v0.7.0 for
Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or newer.

Downloads

  • skill-manager-desktop-0.8.0-macos-arm64.zip — Skill Manager.app with the
    Dashboard, Skills, Skill Sets, and Sources interfaces.
  • skill-manager-cli-0.8.0-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

  • update reports new skills. When a repository you installed later adds
    skills, update still installs nothing, but it now lists the skills that are
    not installed and prints the exact command that adds them for the tools the
    repository already uses:

    new skills in example/agent-skills (not installed): new-skill, other-skill
  install: skill-manager install https://github.com/example/agent-skills --skill new-skill --skill other-skill

    update --dry-run lists new skills already in the local checkout; it still
    does not fetch.

  • The Sources screen shows new skills on a healthy Git source, with an
    Install new action. It opens the install matrix on the existing checkout
    with only those skills preselected for the tools the source already uses.
    Already installed skills keep their current ON or OFF state.

  • Skill names come from upstream directory names, so every argument in the
    suggested command is shell-quoted. A name containing control characters is
    shown quoted and the command is left out.

  • If new skills cannot be checked, for example because two skills share a name,
    the update still succeeds and both interfaces show the reason.

  • The README is now a short desktop-first introduction, and the complete CLI,
    TUI, source, and troubleshooting guide lives in docs/usage.md.

Desktop Installation

  1. Expand skill-manager-desktop-0.8.0-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-0.8.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz
install -m 0755 \
  skill-manager-cli-0.8.0-macos-arm64/skill-manager \
  "$HOME/.local/bin/skill-manager"
skill-manager --version

The expected version output is skill-manager 0.8.0.

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

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

Check a repository for skills added since you installed it without fetching:

skill-manager update https://github.com/example/agent-skills --dry-run

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.
  • Skill Manager uses fixed provider paths under the current user's home
    directory. Custom Claude, Codex, Muse, or Grok skill roots, GROK_HOME,
    project-level skill directories, and provider plugin skills are out of scope.
  • New skills are never installed automatically, and there is no way to dismiss
    one you do not want. A skill stops being reported only after it is installed.
  • New skills are matched by name. A recorded skill that moved to another path
    in the repository is not reported as new.
  • Repair clears worktree changes only. A checkout with local commits, a detached
    HEAD, a changed origin, or managed link drift is diagnosed but not resolved.
  • Muse and Grok have no provider diagnostic, so their context-budget figures
    are always filesystem estimates against an assumed context window.
  • Experimental skills.sh Discover code is not exposed in this build.
  • Already running Claude Code, Codex, Muse, or Grok 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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