Skill Cabinet: CLI Tool for Auditing Local AI Skills

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Ben Williams has released Skill Cabinet, a CLI utility designed to scan multiple local directories, review installed AI skills, and clean them up.

Key points

  1. Can be run directly via 'npx skill-cabinet'.
  2. Scans the local filesystem across various locations where skills are installed.
  3. Provides an interface to inspect and clean up experimental or cluttered skill setups.
  4. Quickly received updates, including version 0.4.0 following community feedback.

Why it matters

When experimenting with various AI agent skills, local filesystems tend to accumulate stale configurations across different paths. Skill Cabinet simplifies regular maintenance without requiring manual inspection of hidden dotfiles.

Analysis

Skill Cabinet addresses a growing workflow friction point as local AI agent tooling expands. Providing a quick, centralised overview helps developers keep their development environment clean when evaluating third-party skills.

Original post

Ben Williams

@theplgeek · 31 August 2026

Folks, please enjoy Skill Cabinet. 🗄️ npx skill-cabinet If you're anything like me, at some point you're local skills situation has gotten somewhat messy. Even if you're organised and managing them through Git you'll probably still be installing stuff locally just to test out t.co/e58m8QkIwX

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  1. @JadMadi Oh that's a great idea 💡
  2. @doodlestein Cheers Jeffrey, hope you're well dude
  3. @smtng_mendex hah nice!
  4. @shyamshanckin7 looks cool - pretty different use case though
  5. @JadMadi here you go t.co/2Fse75DEHe
  6. @scottfwalter Good shout - fixed in 0.4.0 npx skill-cabinet@latest
  7. @austinshandle Nice idea I’ll take a look tomorrow - movie night with the kids tonight. Cheers Austin
  8. @_robguss hope you find it useful!
  9. @0xTAW94 here ya go t.co/cmfBoF05i7
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  • @shyamshanckin7 @theplgeek Interesting! We’ve built something similar, but it’s extended to many practical scenarios of how skills will be used going forward in a systematic way. Check it out : t.co/8tPPGvvHIX
  • @JadMadi @theplgeek Nice! I loved it. It was much needed, to be honest, and came right on time. If you accept issues on X, I'd love to see it distinguish between original files and symlinks.
  • @doodlestein @theplgeek Looks cool, I’ll check it out!
  • @krysamon @shyamshanckin7 @theplgeek Awesome! I really needed to manage my skills visually.
  • @shezmalik @theplgeek been avoiding eye contact with ~/.claude/skills

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