About skill-toggle
skill-toggle is a CLI for managing personal and plugin skills in one place. It supports status checks, search, cleanup, and named collections for users organizing Claude skills.
Key features
- 01Enable or disable personal skills
- 02Toggle plugin skills in settings.json
- 03List, inspect, and fuzzy-search skills
- 04Clean orphan files and directories
- 05Create and toggle skill collections
Use cases
- 01Disable a set of skills temporarily
- 02Find a skill by name or description
- 03Save enabled skills as a collection
- 04Enable or disable a named group
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ tdimino/ claude-code-minoan --skill skill-toggleAfter installing, type/skill-togglein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesREADME.mdscripts/skill_toggle.py
Details
From the project READMESkill Toggle
Manage personal skills and plugin skills from one CLI.
Usage
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py <command> [args]
Commands
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
list | Show all skills with status (enabled/disabled), source, description |
list --enabled | Only enabled skills |
list --disabled | Only disabled skills |
list --plugins | Only plugin skills |
disable <name> [name...] | Disable one or more skills (personal: moves to disabled/, plugin: flips settings.json) |
enable <name> [name...] | Enable one or more skills (reverse of disable) |
status <name> | Show details for a specific skill |
search <query> | Fuzzy match across all skill names and descriptions |
clean | Move orphan directories (no SKILL.md), zip files, and stale .sh scripts to disabled/orphans/ |
collection list | Show all collections with skill/plugin counts |
collection create <name> <skills...> | Define a new collection from explicit skill list |
collection save <name> | Snapshot all currently-enabled skills as a collection |
collection show <name> | List skills in a collection with current enabled/disabled status |
collection on <name> | Enable all skills in the collection |
collection off <name> | Disable all skills in the collection |
collection delete <name> | Remove a collection definition |
collection add <name> <skills...> | Add skills to existing collection |
collection remove <name> <skills...> | Remove skills from existing collection |
How It Works
Personal skills: Moved between ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ (enabled) and ~/.claude/skills/disabled/<name>/ (disabled). The disabled/INDEX.md is auto-regenerated after every operation.
Plugin skills: The enabledPlugins object in ~/.claude/settings.json is toggled. Accepts both plugin names (compound-engineering) and namespaced skill names (compound-engineering:deepen-plan)—the skill suffix is stripped and the entire plugin is toggled either way.
Collections: Named groups of skills stored as JSON in ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/collections/. Each collection lists personal skills and/or plugins that can be toggled as a unit. collection on research enables everything in the research collection; collection off research disables them. Collections are additive—turning one on only enables its skills, it doesn't disable anything outside the collection. Use collection save to snapshot your current enabled set.
Examples
# Disable two personal skills
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py disable smolvlm llama-cpp
# Enable a previously disabled skill
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py enable webflow-migrate
# Disable a plugin (all its skills go with it)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py disable agent-evaluation
# List only what's currently disabled
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py list --disabled
# Clean orphan dirs and zip files
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py clean
# Create a named collection of skills
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py collection create research academic-research ancient-near-east-research rlama exa-search linear-a-decipherment
# Snapshot all currently-enabled skills as a collection
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py collection save baseline
# Disable all skills in a collection at once
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py collection off research
# Re-enable a collection
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py collection on research
# Show what's in a collection with current status
python3 ~/.claude/skills/skill-toggle/scripts/skill_toggle.py collection show research