Claude Skills Manager

Install

VS Code — Visual Studio Marketplace
Cursor — Extensions → search Claude Skills Manager, or Open VSX
Kiro IDE — same Open VSX listing (Kiro uses Open VSX as its default gallery)

Detect your project stack, deploy the right AI agent skills, and control Claude credit spend — from one VS Code sidebar.

Why install this?

Stop guessing which skills to enable — auto-detect from your repo (Terraform, Azure, GitLab CI, ADX, and more).
See where credits go — Cost Intelligence Dashboard with per-skill attribution across Claude and Cursor.
Set a daily budget — warn at 80%, auto-disable expensive skills, optional emergency cutoff.
One library, four agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and GitHub Copilot from the same manifest.

v1.0.0 highlights

Cost Intelligence	Budget tracking, predictive alerts, optimization suggestions, ASCII session breakdown
Team sync	Git author attribution on shared `.claude/skills/`, per-branch profiles
Developer UX	Onboarding tour, error recovery, feature toggles, ROI-based skill sorting
CLI parity	`generate_skills.py` for CI/scripts — same library, no VS Code required

Quick start (2 minutes)

Open a workspace folder.
Activity bar → Claude Skills → Install Skill Library to ~/.claude/skills.
Run Install Relevant Skills for Workspace (or accept the onboarding tour).
Optional: Enable Cost Control Hooks and open Cost Intelligence Dashboard.

Feature toggles

Disable anything you do not need — Command Palette → Claude Skills: Manage Feature Toggles

Budget controls, branch profiles, multi-agent sync
Attribution collector, auto-optimizer, emergency cutoff
Community benchmarks (opt-in), PR cost estimates (optional)

Bundled skill library (17 skills)

Terraform review, Azure RBAC diagnostics, ADX schema check, CI pipeline debug/preflight, GitLab pipeline ops, AIDLC tracker/doc writer, self-learning, skill usage insights, draw.io diagrams, cross-platform scripting, and more.

Performance

<1% CPU idle · ~50 MB memory baseline
<200 ms startup overhead
Optimized for <100 skills and <10K transcript lines

Compatibility

VS Code 1.85+ · Claude Code 0.2+ · Node.js 18+ (hooks)
Windows 10+, macOS 11+, Linux (glibc 2.28+)
Git optional (branch profiles) · GitHub CLI optional (PR estimates)

What this extension does NOT do

No validation of SKILL.md frontmatter.
Community benchmark upload requires you to configure endpoints (no default public server).
PR comments require GitHub CLI and explicit feature enable.
Copilot clones are instruction files, not native Copilot skills.

Links

Estimated costs are from session transcripts — not an actual Anthropic bill. Pro/Max plans are flat-rate.