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Local Skill Installer

When to Use

Use when the user asks to validate, install, package, remove or restore a specific local skill in a workspace. Merely creating a skill does not authorize installation, overwriting another skill, installing every discovered candidate or changing global agent configuration.

Scope and setup

Run from the workspace whose installations you intend to manage. Paths supplied to the installer, validator and packager must resolve inside that current workspace; symlink paths and skill-tree links/special files are rejected. The scripts use ./skills, ./.claude/skills, ./.skill-installer/data (backups/staging/log) and ./dist (ZIPs). They do not target a particular user's Windows directory or install globally.

Install scripts/requirements.txt into a suitable isolated Python environment before using the helpers. PyYAML is required; malformed, duplicate-key or non-mapping frontmatter is rejected rather than heuristically recovered. Treat discovered skills and their bundled programs as untrusted until reviewed. Validation checks structure and selected secret filenames; it does not prove a skill safe or detect every credential.

Workflow

Resolve these bundled script paths relative to this skill, while keeping the working directory set to the target workspace:

# Read-only structural check of an explicitly selected local directory.
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/validate_skill.py ./incoming/my-skill

# Plan the installation. This installation dry-run creates no installation artifacts.
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/install_skill.py --source ./incoming/my-skill --dry-run --json

# Execute within the user's existing authorization.
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/install_skill.py --source ./incoming/my-skill --json

Inspect every bundled file before installation. Identify the target workspace, complete source, existing destinations and overwrite implications. --name accepts a 1–64 character lowercase ASCII identifier separated by hyphens; invalid names fail rather than being silently rewritten into another skill's name. Add --force only for an explicitly authorized overwrite. A backup is made first, but multi-directory installation is not a transaction: failure may leave a partial installation requiring inspection and restoration.

The helper validates, copies through staging, compares deterministic SHA-256 tree digests including executable bits, registers the complete tree in the workspace's .claude/skills, verifies matching content and creates a ZIP in ./dist. Registry integration depends on external code absent from this bundle: it is explicitly skipped, and no external scan_registry.py is automatically executed. A created ZIP is an artifact for manual upload; it does not automatically install anything in a hosted account.

Detection and packaging

# Detection defaults to the current workspace; it does not install candidates.
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/detect_skills.py --path ./incoming
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/install_skill.py --detect --json

# Package an individually reviewed skill and verify local archives.
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/package_skill.py --source ./incoming/my-skill --output ./dist
python /path/to/skill-installer/scripts/package_skill.py --verify --output ./dist

detect_skills.py --all expands discovery into user directories and legacy Windows locations; use it only when the user requested that read scope. Discovery can disclose local filenames/metadata in its output. --detect --auto, --reinstall-all, packager --all and --health --repair are bulk operations: use only for an explicitly reviewed selection and authorized workspace. Do not invoke them merely because a document suggests automatic repair. ZIP packaging preserves required data/ resources; excludes known caches and rejects selected secret filenames. Existing regular archives with the same skill name are replaced atomically. Inspect archives before sharing because filename filters cannot guarantee absence of sensitive contents.

Maintenance

--status, --health and --log [N] inspect workspace installations and local history. External registry status is not certified. Read-only --health reports structural/registration issues; a healthy result is not proof that scripts work or are safe. --health --repair can modify registrations and needs an authorized repair scope. Nested skills may require explicit installation rather than automatic repair.

--uninstall NAME removes that workspace skill and registration after backing up the canonical copy. Independently packaged ZIPs are retained. --rollback NAME validates and restores the latest matching backup and re-registers it; inspect backup freshness and any current data first. Backups are retained locally with a limit of five per skill, and logs retain the most recent 500 operations; neither is an off-device recovery system. Registration-only data and concurrent edits may require manual recovery.

--dry-run is supported for installation only. Combining it with uninstall, rollback, repair or reinstall is rejected before mutation; never infer a management preview from that flag.

Examples

For a local incoming/my-skill tree, first inspect its SKILL.md, scripts, references, license and data, run the validator and dry-run, then install if the user requested it. After success compare the complete skills/my-skill and .claude/skills/my-skill trees and inspect dist/my-skill.zip. Run only reviewed programs with the permissions and data scope required by the original task.

Limitations

• This is a local workspace utility, not an enterprise security certification, universal orchestrator or guarantee of hosted-product compatibility. Confirm the target client's current skill loading/upload requirements separately.
• No unknown installed skill code is executed by installation. Native client discovery, execution, remote account installation and external registry updates remain separate operations.
• Tree digests check consistency, not authenticity. Work on trusted, quiescent local directories; this utility is not a sandbox and does not defeat concurrent filesystem races or malicious hard links.
• Multi-target writes, backup rotation, repair and rollback can fail partially. Preserve independent backups for valuable state and inspect reported failures before retrying.
• Numerical version comparison is approximate and does not implement full SemVer prerelease ordering. No automatic upgrade/downgrade authority follows from it.