Getting Started with Skill Hub Manage Your AI Agent Skills Like a Pro

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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.