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@dees91 dees91 released this 16 Sep 12:03
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v0.9.0
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Skill Manager 0.9.0 Public Preview

This feature preview lets you install skills without making them visible to any
tool, and toggle a Skill Set for any combination of tools. It supersedes
v0.8.0 for Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 or newer.

Downloads

  • skill-manager-desktop-0.9.0-macos-arm64.zip — Skill Manager.app with the
    Dashboard, Skills, Skill Sets, and Sources interfaces.
  • skill-manager-cli-0.9.0-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

  • Install skills as OFF. Add a source for every tool without any tool
    seeing its skills until you turn them ON. In the desktop install dialog, turn
    on Install as OFF (available in both Install source and Install new). In
    the terminal, add --off:

    skill-manager install https://github.com/example/agent-skills --off --dry-run
skill-manager install https://github.com/example/agent-skills --off
skill-manager enable --tool claude example-skill

    Links are created directly in Skill Manager's disabled directory and never
    appear in a tool's skills directory, even briefly. The result is identical to
    installing and then turning each skill OFF. Skills that are already installed
    keep their current state.

  • Toggle a Skill Set for any combination of tools. The Skill Set toggle
    dialog now treats Claude, Codex, Muse, and Grok as independent choices, so
    one use can target, for example, Claude and Grok. All selects or clears
    every tool.

  • If saving the install state fails, the links that install created are now
    removed for Git sources too, as they already were for local folders.

Desktop Installation

  1. Expand skill-manager-desktop-0.9.0-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-0.9.0-macos-arm64.tar.gz
install -m 0755 \
  skill-manager-cli-0.9.0-macos-arm64/skill-manager \
  "$HOME/.local/bin/skill-manager"
skill-manager --version

The expected version output is skill-manager 0.9.0.

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

Add a repository's skills disabled, then turn on only what you need:

skill-manager install https://github.com/example/agent-skills --off
skill-manager enable --tool claude example-skill

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.
  • Install as OFF applies to the whole selection; there is no per-skill ON/OFF
    choice inside one install. --off never turns an already installed skill OFF.
  • 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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