Manage AI agent skills visually inside VS Code and Cursor. Index installed skills into passive context files so your agents always know what tools are available.
Features
Sidebar tree view — See all indexed and available skills at a glance
Add/remove from context menu — Right-click a skill to add or remove it from the index
Sync — Remove stale entries and regenerate the index
Multi-agent support — Works with Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and more
Commands
Open the command palette (Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P) and search for:
Command
Description
Skilldex: Initialize
Scan for skills and create the initial index
Skilldex: Add Skill
Add a skill to the index
Skilldex: Remove Skill
Remove a skill from the index
Skilldex: Sync Skills
Remove stale entries and regenerate
Skilldex: Update Skills
Refresh the index for changed skills
Skilldex: Refresh
Refresh the sidebar tree view
How It Works
Skilldex discovers skills installed in agent-specific directories (.cursor/skills/, .claude/skills/, etc.), reads their metadata, and writes a compact index into passive context files like AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. This gives your AI agent immediate awareness of all available skills without runtime tool calls.
The extension manages a skilldex.config.json file that tracks which skills are indexed and which target files to write to. The index lives in a managed section between <!-- skilldex:start --> / <!-- skilldex:end --> tags — the rest of your file is untouched.
