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Claude Skills Explorer

Claude Skills Explorer

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Browse, pin, and open your global, project, and plugin Claude Code skills from a sidebar tree.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Claude Skills Explorer

Browse your Claude Code skills — global, per-project, and from installed plugins — in a dedicated sidebar, without leaving VS Code.

Features

  • Dedicated activity bar view with a tree grouped into Pinned, Global, Project, and Plugins.
  • Global skills — reads ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md.
  • Project skills — reads .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md in each open workspace folder.
  • Plugin skills — reads skills from every plugin listed in ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json (only actually-installed plugins, not the full marketplace catalog).
  • Pin any skill to keep it at the top of the tree (persisted across restarts).
  • Click a skill to open its SKILL.md.
  • Right-click a skill to:
    • Insert /skill-name into the active terminal
    • Copy the skill's slash-command name
    • Reveal the file in your OS file manager
  • Auto-refreshes when skill files change or workspace folders are added/removed.
  • Friendly empty-state messages when a group has no skills yet.

Requirements

None — no dependencies on the Claude Code CLI or extension being installed. This extension just reads the same ~/.claude directory structure Claude Code uses.

Development

npm install
npm run compile   # or: npm run watch

Press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host with the extension loaded.

License

MIT

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