A symlink librarian for Claude, Cursor, and 20 other AI agents

What it does

skills-manage is a Tauri-based desktop app that treats ~/.agents/skills/ as a single source of truth for AI coding agent instructions. It lets you install, uninstall, and browse skills from one place, then symlinks them into the per-platform directories that tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI expect. The app is entirely local-first, storing metadata in SQLite and refusing to phone home unless you explicitly ask it to fetch a marketplace skill or generate an AI explanation.

The interesting bit

Instead of copying JSON and Markdown snippets into twenty-odd ~/.{tool}/skills/ folders, the app maintains one central library and wires the rest through symlinks. It even scans your local projects for stray skill libraries—handy if you keep an Obsidian vault or a project-specific .skills/ directory lying around.

Key highlights

• Supports 25+ platforms, from mainstream tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) to a full roster of Chinese “Lobster” variants like OpenClaw and QClaw.
• Collections let you batch-install curated skill sets across multiple agents.
• Marketplace browsing and authenticated GitHub import for pulling in public skill repositories.
• Fast, virtualized search with lazy indexing for large libraries.
• Bilingual UI and Catppuccin theming, because aesthetics matter even for file-system plumbing.

Caveats

• Prebuilt binaries are currently Apple Silicon only; everyone else builds from source.
• The macOS release is unsigned, so Gatekeeper will flag it as damaged until you strip the quarantine attribute.
• GitHub PATs and AI API keys sit in a local SQLite table unencrypted at rest.

Verdict

Worth a look if you juggle multiple AI coding tools and want one canonical place for your agent skills. Skip it if you only use one platform, or if you expect polished cross-platform releases out of the box.