About skillsgate

SkillsGate is a visual skill manager for AI agents that simplifies browsing, installing, and managing skills from a unified interface. It serves as a desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and offers a terminal user interface for keyboard-driven workflows. The software integrates with skills.sh to provide access to a public catalog of over 20 agent skills, eliminating the need to manually search GitHub repositories or copy files. Users can search for skills and deploy them to specific agents or multiple agents simultaneously with a single action. Key features include a built-in editor for viewing rendered content or editing raw source code, remote server connectivity via SSH for syncing skills across machines, and support for both private and shared team skills. The platform supports a wide range of agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Continue, and Zed. Settings and preferences are synchronized between the desktop and terminal versions using a local SQLite databa

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SkillsGate

Visual skill manager for AI agents. Desktop app and TUI.

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npm version

SkillsGate Desktop App

What is SkillsGate?

SkillsGate lets you browse, install, and manage AI agent skills from a single interface. It works with 20+ agents and integrates skills.sh for public skill discovery.

Instead of hunting through GitHub repos and copying markdown files by hand, you open SkillsGate, search for what you need, and install it to any combination of agents with one click.

Available as a desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) and a terminal UI for keyboard-driven workflows.

Quick Start

Desktop App

Download for your platform:

macOS (Apple Silicon) · macOS (Intel) · Windows · Linux

TUI (Terminal UI)

npx skillsgate

Or install globally:

npm install -g skillsgate

SkillsGate TUI

Supported Agents

Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Continue, Codex CLI, Droid CLI, OB-1, Amp, Goose, Junie, Kilo Code, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pear AI, Roo Code, Trae, Zed, and Universal.

Features

skills.sh integration -- browse and search the full public catalog directly from the app
Per-agent management -- install a skill to specific agents or all of them at once, remove from one without affecting the others
Built-in editor -- view rendered skill content or edit the raw source with a CodeMirror editor, saved to disk instantly
Remote servers -- connect to other machines via SSH to browse and sync skills
Private skills -- keep skills local to your machine or share them with your team
Favorites -- star skills from the catalog for quick access
Settings sync -- desktop and TUI share preferences via a local SQLite database

TUI Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
`1/2/3/4`	Switch tabs (Installed / Discover / Favorites / Servers)
`j/k`	Navigate list
`/`	Focus search input
`Tab`	Cycle focus between panes
`v`	View skill detail
`e`	Toggle rendered / raw source view
`i`	Install skill
`d`	Remove skill
`o`	Open folder or URL
`m`	Toggle keyword / AI search mode
`s`	Settings
`?`	Help overlay
`Ctrl+Q`	Quit

Development

This is a monorepo managed with npm workspaces.

apps/
  web/          React Router v7 on Cloudflare Workers
  desktop/      Electron desktop app

packages/
  cli/          Node CLI published as `skillsgate` on npm
  tui/          Terminal UI published as `@skillsgate/tui` (Bun)
  ui/           Shared React components
  local-db/     Shared SQLite persistence and SSH client

Running locally

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Web app (default workspace dev server)
npm run dev

# Desktop app
cd apps/desktop && npm run dev

# TUI (requires Bun)
cd packages/tui && bun run src/index.tsx

# Deploy web app to Cloudflare
npm run deploy

Requires Node.js 18+, Bun (for TUI development), and a Cloudflare account.

Contributing

SkillsGate is open source. Contributions welcome.

Fork the repo
Create a feature branch
Make your changes
Open a pull request

License

MIT

Built by Sultan Valiyev