Claude Code Skills Panel

Manage your Claude Code skills like a game.

New here? Claude Code is Anthropic's AI coding CLI. It runs in your terminal (or inside Cursor / VS Code) and is driven by slash commands (/commit, /review, …). Once you install a plugin or two, those commands pile up fast — and that's the problem this panel solves.

A pixel-art skill launcher for Claude Code. Stop retyping /slash-commands — every command on your machine becomes a card. Click to fire, right-click to edit, watch your buddies fight while Claude works, and see exactly which commands eat your tokens.

The five things you actually use it for

1. 🎮 Manage custom skills like a game. Every slash command on your machine becomes a card. Click to fire. Right-click to open and edit SKILL.md in place. Drag to the Quick Bar for keyboard 1–6 shortcuts. Aliases, custom icons, hidden cards, custom groups — all from a single edit modal.

2. 🐾 Cute pixel buddies make work less lonely. Above the Quick Bar lives a yard where your invoked classes idle, walk around, and fight monsters while Claude is actually busy (mtime polling — no prompt content read). When the task ends, they cheer with a 3-tone chime + ✓! bubble. Click any buddy to see its role and stats. (All optional — one toggle off.)

3. 📊 See which commands you actually use. The 📊 weekly report shows a 7-day activity chart, your TOP 5 most-fired commands, and exports to Markdown. Mastery levels (LV.0 → LV.5) per skill, achievements, daily streaks — your skill belt grows visibly.

4. ⚡ Find token hogs instantly. Opt-in token tracking reads only message.usage from Claude Code's session transcripts (never prompt text) and surfaces per-skill totals on every card, a ⚡ Most tokens sort, and a "Top 5 by Tokens" report section. Now you know which command is costing you 12k tokens per use.

5. 🛒 Browse 243+ official plugins inside the panel. Search, filter, install with one click — the GUI Claude Code itself never shipped.

Where to dock it

Pick the spot that fits how you run Claude Code:

Both modes auto-adapt — wide layouts get the full yard, narrow ones collapse the yard into a 🐾 View buddies button.

Stop memorizing — one click · 외워서 타이핑하지 말고 한 번에 클릭 · もう打たないで、ワンクリックで起動 · 别再死记斜杠命令,一键触发

Built mostly with Claude Code itself. Free, MIT, ~200 KB, no telemetry by default.

What's New in v0.59

⚡ Your buddies power up with the model you're running. Haiku → Sonnet → Opus → Fable, each tier gets a stronger aura — Fable erupts into a Super-Saiyan-style golden flame with blue lightning arcing across the whole line.

• 🗡️ Every class fights differently. Six distinct strike motions — dash-slash, leap-stomp, rapid jabs, spell cast, projectile throw, divine channel. Melee classes close to point-blank; ranged classes hang back and fire.
• 💥 Real impact. Shockwave rings, white-hot flashes, spark bursts, a monster HP bar that drains, screen shake + CRIT! on critical hits, and a confetti flourish on victory.
• 🎬 Demo commands for recording. Demo Fight (next class) and Demo Aura (next model tier) stage the scene on demand — cycle through every motion and aura without waiting for a real task.

Full history in CHANGELOG.md.

Who is this for?

You'll feel the value within 10 seconds if any of these are true:

• ✅ You use Claude Code and have installed at least one plugin (superpowers, code-review, …)
• ✅ Your ~/.claude/commands/ or ~/.claude/skills/ has 5+ custom entries
• ✅ You moved from VS Code to Cursor / Windsurf and miss the plugin GUI
• ✅ You'd rather hit 1–6 than retype /commit-prepare every time
• ✅ You've ever wondered "which of my skills is burning the most tokens?"

You probably don't need this if:

• ❌ You haven't tried Claude Code yet — start there first
• ❌ You only have 1–2 slash commands and remember them fine

Preview

Activity Bar (narrow)

Bottom Panel (wide)

Install

Or open the Extensions tab (Cmd+Shift+X), search Claude Code Skills Panel, and click Install — it shows up in all four IDEs.

Features

🔍 Auto-discovery

Scans every slash command source on your machine, no setup required:

New plugin? Just install with /plugin install <name>@<marketplace> and it shows up on the next refresh.

🎮 Interactions

✚ Create, share & import skills

The panel isn't just a launcher — it's where you author and pass skills around.

• Create — the toolbar ✚ opens a modal to scaffold a SKILL.md from a template (blank / workflow / review). Kebab-case name is validated on both sides, so ../ path tricks can't escape ~/.claude/skills/.
• ✨ Draw with Claude — instead of a static template, send a scaffolding prompt to your active terminal and let Claude Code write the skill for you. The chosen template becomes a structural style hint.
• 📤 Export — from any skill's edit modal (✎), copy its SKILL.md to your clipboard. Commands without frontmatter get a name / description injected automatically so they import cleanly.
• 📥 Import — paste a shared skill to your clipboard, then ✚ → Import. The panel parses the frontmatter, writes ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md, and opens it. Duplicate names are refused, not silently overwritten.

No backend, no accounts — sharing rides your clipboard and whatever you already use (DM, gist, Slack).

⚡ Quick Bar — unlocked by evolution

Drag your most-used skills to 6 slots and trigger them with number keys. Each slot unlocks as your buddy evolves.

// keybindings.json — trigger from anywhere, even without the panel open
{ "key": "cmd+shift+1", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot1" }

🚀 Execution Modes (▶ button)

v0.41 dropped the previous ▶ Auto mode (osascript / SendKeys / xdotool keystroke automation) — it was unreliable against React-driven inputs in Cursor / VS Code, and Term mode covers the same automation use case far more reliably.

✏️ Customization

• Alias — rename any skill with a shorter label
• Note — shown in the hover popover
• Prompt template — preset wrapper text (e.g. "review this file") that prefills before send in terminal mode
• Custom icon — upload your own image (PNG/SVG/JPG/GIF)
• Hide — declutter skills you rarely use
• Custom groups — emoji + name; drag-reorder; assign skills via the edit modal

All settings saved to ~/.claude/skills-panel-config.json — version-controllable via dotfiles. Settings export/import via the ⚙ panel for one-click sync to another machine.

📊 Stats & token tracking (opt-in)

• Weekly report (📊) — 7-day activity chart + Top 5 most-fired commands + Markdown export. See exactly which skills you actually run.
• Token usage — when enabled in Settings, the panel reads only message.usage from ~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl (never prompt content) and surfaces:
  • Per-card label under the mastery stars (e.g. 12.4k tok)
  • Toolbar ⚡ Most tokens sort
  • Weekly report "Top 5 by Tokens (all-time)" section
• Mastery ★ — LV.0 → LV.5 per skill with level-up animation
• Daily streak — 🔥 N days in the footer
• 16 achievements — volume / variety / streaks / mastery / customization

🛒 Plugin marketplace browser

The 🛒 button opens an in-panel browser of every plugin from every marketplace you've added (/plugin marketplace add …). Search by name / description / author, filter by category, toggle "installed only," and one-click install — the install command flows through your current execution mode (clipboard or terminal).

🐾 Buddy Yard — pixel companions that work alongside you

Everything in this section is opt-in eye candy. Toggle it off in Settings → Buddy actions if you only want a clean launcher. The serious launcher half above is fully self-contained.

Class-branch buddies

A pixel-art companion that branches into one of 10 RPG classes based on your most-used slash-command category. From the very first slash command you fire, the buddy starts as a class — no waiting through generic stages.

Don't like your class? Hit 🔄 Reincarnate — the locked class clears, your counts stay, and the next action picks fresh.

Stats: 🧠 INT (brainstorm/review skills) · ⚡ DEX (Quick Bar usage) · ❤️ VIT (daily streak) · 🍀 LCK (achievements)

The yard above the Quick Bar

Every class your buddy has ever invoked lives in a small pixel diorama above the Quick Bar. They idle, walk back and forth, react to clicks. Wide panels show it inline; narrow panels (Activity Bar) collapse the yard into a 🐾 View buddies button that opens a modal version.

Click any buddy → see that buddy's class info (sprite, role, invocation count, trigger keywords, "★ Your current class" if it matches yours).

Custom backdrop — drop an image at assets/buddy-yard-bg.{png,jpg,jpeg,webp,gif} and the panel auto-applies it as a cover-fitted background. Forest, dusk, dungeon — your call.

🗡️ Side-scroller fights while Claude works

Enable Settings → Buddy actions and the yard reacts to whether Claude Code is actually busy:

• The panel polls ~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl mtime every 5s (metadata only, no content read)
• While Claude is working: a red pixel monster fades in on the left, the active fighter (the buddy whose class matches the running command) dashes from the right cluster to the monster's side and runs its class strike (sword swing / fireball / shuriken volley / …), the others cheer in place. Yellow damage numbers float up — and 18% of the time you get a pink CRIT.
• When the task ends: monster fades out, every buddy plays a celebrate hop, a ✓! bubble floats above each, a 3-tone 8-bit chime fires, and a 🎉 Task complete! toast appears.

Works with both the Claude Code CLI and the Claude Code IDE extension — both write to the same ~/.claude/projects/ tree.

Per-class strike motions — six archetypes, assigned by class: lunge (dash slash), stomp (leap and slam), jab (rapid pokes), cast (spell wind-up), throw (projectile whip), channel (float and pulse). Melee classes dash to point-blank; ranged classes hold position and fire from behind.

Impact feedback — shockwave rings, white-hot flashes, spark bursts, a draining monster HP bar, plus screen shake and a CRIT! flourish on critical hits. Victory ends with a confetti burst and a brightness flash.

⚡ Model power aura

The buddies visibly get stronger with whatever model Claude Code is currently running — read from message.model in the session transcript, shown as a label under the yard.

🎬 Recording the demos

Two command-palette entries stage the scene so you can capture it without waiting for a real task:

🎨 Pixel-art UI

Theme cycle (Dark / Retro CRT / Gameboy LCD)	Locale switch (EN / 한국어 / 日本語 / 中文)

• Pixel fonts: DotGothic16 (Korean) + Press Start 2P (English)
• 62 custom spark-style icons — one per skill category, consistent dark frame
• 3 themes — Dark / Retro CRT / Gameboy LCD (toggle in toolbar)
• CRT effects — scanlines + vignette (toggleable)
• 8-bit sounds — hover, click, level-up, task-complete chime (toggleable)
• Animations — chamfer corners, sparkle hover, ripple on click, staggered card entrance, side-scroller combat

Keyboard Shortcuts (optional)

Add to Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON):

[
  { "key": "cmd+shift+1", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot1" },
  { "key": "cmd+shift+2", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot2" },
  { "key": "cmd+shift+3", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot3" },
  { "key": "cmd+shift+4", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot4" },
  { "key": "cmd+shift+5", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot5" },
  { "key": "cmd+shift+6", "command": "claudeSkills.quickSlot6" }
]

Development

git clone https://github.com/parksubeom/claude-skills-panel
cd claude-skills-panel
npm install

npm run build:pixels   # pixel icon set
npm run build:spark    # 62 spark-style skill icons
npm run build:buddy    # 10-class buddy sprites (apprentice → legend share the same art)
npm run package        # build all + package .vsix

# Manual publish (CI handles this on tagged releases)
npx ovsx publish -p $OVSX_PAT       # OpenVSX (Cursor / Windsurf / VS Codium)
npx vsce publish -p $VSCE_PAT       # VS Code Marketplace

Releasing

Push a vX.Y.Z tag — GitHub Actions builds, packages, and publishes to both marketplaces in parallel. See .github/workflows/publish.yml for the full pipeline.

Links

• Issues / feature requests — GitHub Issues
• Changelog — CHANGELOG.md
• OpenVSX listing — https://open-vsx.org/extension/parksubeom/claude-skills-panel
• VS Marketplace listing — https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=parksubeom.claude-skills-panel

Star history

If this saved you from typing /full-flow for the 38th time today, a ⭐ helps other Claude Code users find it.

Translations

• 🇺🇸 English (this file)
• 🇰🇷 한국어 (README.ko.md)

License

MIT © parksubeom