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Skill Cabinet

What changed in each version of Skill Cabinet.

Versions

1.6.0

November 4, 2026

  • Automatic updates with your license key. Enter the license key from your Polar receipt in Skill Cabinet → License…, or when Check for Updates… asks for it, and Skill Cabinet installs new versions itself. The app works without a key. A key works on 3 Macs, and License… → Deactivate This Mac frees one.
  • Runs on macOS 14 Sonoma. Skill Cabinet now runs on Sonoma as well as Sequoia and later, and Find still focuses the search field there.

1.5.0

October 8, 2026

Renamed the app to Skill Cabinet.

Existing saved data stays available. The companion command keeps its existing name. In-app update links now use the renamed repository.

1.4.0

October 3, 2026

  • No more security warning. The first time you opened Skill Cabinet, macOS used to say it “could not verify Skill Cabinet is free of malware”, and you had to click Open Anyway in System Settings. Now it opens like other apps you download: macOS asks if you’re sure you want to open an app from the internet, and you click Open.
  • Nothing else changed. The skillscout command and its link stay the same.

1.3.0

October 1, 2026

  • Filter by source. A new menu next to Sort picks Your skills, Plugin skills, Built-in skills or All skills, and the sidebar counts follow it. It replaces the puzzle-piece toggle, which could only add the plugin and built-in skills to yours.

A skill you keep in your own folders stays under Your skills, even when a plugin has one with the same name. The filter is greyed out on Suggestions and Similar skills, since it doesn’t change those lists.

1.2.0

October 1, 2026

  • Similar skills. A new list in the sidebar pairs the skills that read alike, with the words they share. Skill Cabinet compares the words on your Mac, without AI, and only pairs your own skills. Click They’re different skills to hide a pair for good.
  • Merge with AI. Pick a pair and the name to keep, and Claude Code or Codex writes one SKILL.md from both. You can edit it before anything changes. The other skill goes to the Trash, its extra files come along, and the kept skill gets linked wherever the other one was, so no agent loses it.
  • Edit. Change a skill’s SKILL.md in the app. Skill Cabinet saves it to every copy with the same text, and tells you when an agent changed the file while you were editing.
  • Rename. Skill Cabinet renames the skill’s folders and links, and the name in its SKILL.md.
  • Toolbar buttons. Edit, Rename and Uninstall now sit in the toolbar, for the selected skill.
  • New commands. skillscout similar, skillscout rename and skillscout merge, with --dry-run to read the merged SKILL.md first.

After a rename or a merge, the chats that used the old name keep counting for the skill.

The draft editors no longer turn your quotes into curly quotes, or -- into a dash, when that macOS setting is on.

1.1.0

September 30, 2026

  • Uninstall. Click Uninstall this skill under Where it lives, right-click a skill in the list, or select it and press Delete. Skill Cabinet moves every copy in your skills folders to the Trash, links included, so you can put it back from there.
  • Remove from one folder. When a skill lives in more than one folder, Remove takes it out of just that one, which undoes an Add to. Before anything moves, Skill Cabinet tells you which agents will stop loading the skill.
  • skillscout uninstall. The same in your terminal. Add --from <tool> to remove only the copy in that agent’s skills folder.

Plugin and built-in skills stay where they are, since their agents manage them.

1.0.0

September 30, 2026

  • 8 agents. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Droid, Pi and Amp. Skill Cabinet knows which folders each one reads, so for every skill it tells you which agents load it.
  • Add to. One click links a skill into an agent that can’t see it yet, so every agent loads the same SKILL.md.
  • Usage counts. It reads your local chats and counts the chats where an agent loaded each skill, by agent and by project. Unused lists the skills no chat touched in the last 60 days.
  • Skill ideas. Find repeated tasks asks Claude Code or Codex for the requests you keep typing, and drafts a SKILL.md for each one.
  • Explain with AI. Ask what a skill does, when the agent uses it, and what it needs to work.
  • The skillscout command. The same skills and counts in your terminal, with --json for scripts. Install it from the Skill Cabinet menu.
  • Updates. Skill Cabinet checks GitHub once a day, and installs new versions from inside the app.

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