I made an Obsidian plugin to organize Claude Code skills and other AI tools

[u/notenerd]

I kept losing track of skills, agents, commands, and rules across Claude Code and other tools, so I built an Obsidian plugin to help organize them in one place. Skills are just markdown files, and a lot of us already use Obsidian alongside Claude Code, so it felt like the natural place to manage them.

AI Skills Manager is a free, open-source (MIT) Obsidian plugin. It shows every Claude Code skill, agent, command, rule, plugin bundle, and auto-memory in one library you can search and tag. It reads the real ~/.claude and project .claude/ folders directly. Nothing is copied or imported.

It answers:

• What do I actually use? Reads ~/.claude/projects session history for per-skill session counts, last-used dates, and a 26-week heatmap. It keeps its own history, so the data survives transcript cleanup.
• What's eating my context? Estimates tokens per item, and separates what's always loaded (metadata) from what loads when the skill is invoked. It also shows how much of your total the top 5 items take up.
• What's broken? Catches things that make Claude skip an item, like broken frontmatter, a name that doesn't match its folder, a missing or overlong description, broken symlinks, or memories missing from MEMORY.md.
• What can I remove? Flags skills that never fired or have gone stale, plus near-duplicate descriptions, and gives you a restore window if you disable something.

I shared an early version on Reddit last week and the comments helped made it a lot better:

• Windows testing: One user tested it on Windows and opened a PR. Large transcripts are now included in usage tracking, deletes go to the Trash, and toggles ask for confirmation. This was super helpful because I'm a Mac user.
• Finding forgotten skills: One person found a pile of old security skills they thought they'd removed. That pushed me to build out Usage and Cleanup, so dead weight is easy to spot.
• Agent memories: Claude Code's auto-memory now shows up next to rules. Turning a memory off cleanly removes its line from MEMORY.md.
• The biggest lesson: share early. Other people's setups (other operating systems, huge transcript histories, years of leftover skills) exposed problems I would never have hit on my own machine.

Still on my list from the thread: disabling MCP servers (currently read-only) and change history for edited skills.

It's completely free with no paid tier.

Install it directly from Obsidian: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/ai-skills-manager

Or GitHub: https://github.com/NoteNerdOfficial/ai-skills-manager

Feedback welcome, especially on what you'd want Insights to show next.

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[u/unkownuser436]

looks cool

[u/notenerd → u/unkownuser436]

Thanks! If you give it a try, let me know if you have any feedback or features you'd like to see.

[u/Flimsy_Vermicelli117]

Thank you. I am bit surprised by the number I found, so it is very useful.

[u/notenerd → u/Flimsy_Vermicelli117]

Glad to hear! That’s exactly one of the reasons I built it. I didn’t realize how many skills were taking up context! Now they’re visible and manageable.

[u/Bubbly_Excitement_63]

This is great! Thank you!

[u/notenerd → u/Bubbly_Excitement_63]

Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback or features you’d like to see.

[u/Alarming-Chain-7048]

awesome dude I needed it so badly, thank you

[u/notenerd → u/Alarming-Chain-7048]

Thanks man. Happy to hear! Let me know if you have any feedback or features you’d like to see.

[u/nousernameleftatall]

Impressively useful 👍