Skills Vault — Development skill for Claude Code

Skills Vault

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Skills Vault is a CLI for backing up and restoring [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io).

It is built for the common round-trip:

1. snapshot what is installed today
2. commit or move the manifest
3. restore the same set of skill sources on another machine

[!IMPORTANT] Bun-only runtime. Skills Vault is designed to be installed and run with [Bun](https://bun.com).

Why Skills Vault

Skills Vault exists to fill the gap described in [vercel-labs/skills#729](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/issues/729): a declarative manifest for portable, reproducible skill setups across machines and teams.

• Back up installed skills into a deterministic skvlt.yaml file.
• Restore from that manifest by source, by agent, or all at once.
• Preview installs before making changes with --dry-run.
• Check local setup quickly with doctor.
• Generate completion scripts for bash, zsh, and powershell.

Quick Start

Back up your current skills:

bunx skvlt backup

Preview what a restore would run:

bunx skvlt restore --dry-run

Restore everything recorded in the manifest:

bunx skvlt restore --all

If you want a curated, ready-to-use manifest, see [xixu-me/skvlt](https://github.com/xixu-me/skvlt), a maintained collection of `skvlt.yaml` snapshots.

The default manifest is `./skvlt.yaml`. A typical file looks like this:

total_sources: 2
total_skills: 3
scope: "