If you use Claude Code or Codex daily, you have probably hit this problem:
You install a skill from GitHub. Then another. Then ten more. A month later, you cannot remember what you installed, where it came from, or whether there is an update.
I hit this wall too. So I built Skill Hub: an open-source desktop app for discovering, installing, updating, and organizing AI agent skills and plugins.
What Skill Hub does
Skill Hub is designed for people who use AI agent workflows heavily and want a single place to manage their local skills and plugins.
Today it can:
- scan local Claude and Codex skill/plugin folders
- classify resources as official, GitHub-based, or local
- discover resources from GitHub
- install resources without manual copy-paste
- check updates for GitHub-sourced resources
- move old versions to trash instead of deleting them permanently
- run locally without uploading skill content
The app is built with Tauri 2 + Rust + React and released under the MIT license.
Step 1: Install Skill Hub
Download the latest release from GitHub:
https://github.com/JerryLiu-uestc/skill-hub
Skill Hub is a cross-platform desktop app. The goal is to support macOS, Windows, and Linux with native desktop packages.
Step 2: Let it scan your local resources
When Skill Hub starts, it scans the common Claude and Codex roots on your system and shows your installed resources in one inventory view.
Each item shows its host, type, source, update status, path, and summary when available.
Step 3: Explore the marketplace
The marketplace is built in layers:
| Layer | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| L1 Built-in | Packaged index | Works offline |
| L2 Remote index | Daily updated index | Community discovery without GitHub API pressure |
| L3 User sources | Custom repos | Bring your own resource source |
| L4 Paste link | Any GitHub URL | Paste, discover, install |
This is the core idea: skill management should feel closer to an app store than a pile of folders.
Step 4: Install and update safely
For GitHub-sourced resources, Skill Hub can compare local and remote metadata and tell you whether an update is available.
When updating or removing a resource, it avoids permanent deletion by moving old files to the system trash first.
Why I built it
AI agent ecosystems are moving fast, but the resource management layer is still rough. Skills and plugins are powerful, but once you have dozens of them, manual management becomes fragile.
Skill Hub is my attempt to make this layer visible, searchable, and safer.
Links
- GitHub: https://github.com/JerryLiu-uestc/skill-hub
- License: MIT
- Stack: Tauri 2, Rust, React
If you manage AI agent skills today, I would love to hear what your workflow looks like and what would make this kind of tool more useful.