A tool that manages which coding-agent skills are loaded in a session. It parks unused skill folders and brings them back when the request appears to need them.

Use it to check which skill groups are active, manually turn groups on or off, restore all groups, pause management, or investigate why a skill is unavailable.

It helps reduce a crowded skill list and the extra context that can make sessions slower or harder to follow.

skill-valet — Skill for Claude Code by SDeenAdmin

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add SDeenAdmin/skill-valet --skill skill

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SDeenAdmin/skill-valet

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 638 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00091	$0.00638
Opus 5.5	$0.00036	$0.00255
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00128
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00064

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0999fcf3195a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-valet scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skill/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

skill-valet

skill-valet is a UserPromptSubmit hook that keeps the per-turn skill list lean. It keyword-classifies each prompt into skill groups (defined in ~/.claude/skill-valet.json), moves a group's skill directories back into ~/.claude/skills/ when the prompt needs them, and parks groups that have been idle for park_after turns (default 20) into ~/.claude/skills-off/.

When invoked, do this

Run python3 <path-to>/skill_valet.py status to show the user which groups are ON / PARKED / PARTIAL, the turn counter, and idle times.
If the user asks why a skill is missing: check whether it belongs to a parked group (status output) or sits in ~/.claude/skills-off/.
Manual overrides on request:
- on <group> / off <group> — force a group in or out now
- all-on — restore every managed skill
- pause / resume — kill switch: while paused the hook does nothing
To change what is managed: edit ~/.claude/skill-valet.json — move a skill name between always_on (never touched) and a group's skills list, or tune the group's keywords.

Honest boundaries — state these when relevant

Next-turn effect, not same-turn. A skill un-parked by this prompt appears in the skill list from the NEXT turn onward. If the user needs a parked skill right now, run on <group> and ask them to re-send the request.
User skills only. Plugins, plugin skills, and MCP servers are bound to session start — skill-valet cannot switch those mid-session; a restart (or profile switcher) is required.
Hooks are NEVER touched — by design. Hooks are the user's deterministic safety layer; skill-valet has no code path that reads or modifies them.
Multi-session caveat. Directory moves are global: parking a group affects every concurrently running Claude Code session on this machine.
Fail-open. If the hook errors it silently does nothing (exit 0) — it will never block a prompt. If behavior seems off, check ~/.claude/skill-valet-state.json and the config for JSON validity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 0999fcf3195a

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skill-valet is a skill published in the GitHub repository SDeenAdmin/skill-valet (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 638 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

Building agents Claude Code claude-code-hooks claude-skills context-management developer-tools

skill-valet next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
skill-valetSDeenAdmin/skill-valet	Skill	6	4mo ago	MIT	A	91	Claude Code
branch-recapMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	338	Claude Code
audit-contextMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	218	Claude Code
slack-changelogMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	332	Claude Code
ignore-setupMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	157	Claude Code
handoffMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	151	Claude Code
plugin-commandsMalo-T/claude-toolbelt	Skill	2	yesterday	MIT	A	73	Claude Code

skill-valet

Getting it into your agent

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

skill-valet

When invoked, do this

Honest boundaries — state these when relevant

What this file has done since we first saw it

skill-valet compared with skills from other repositories