Why not just git?

“Can’t I just commit .claude/skills/ to a repo?”

You can — if everyone’s on the same agent, in the same project, and remembers to pull. A git folder gives you a folder. It doesn’t place skills into Cursor and Codex and OpenCode, doesn’t sync across machines, doesn’t scan for injection, doesn’t tell you which version everyone’s on, and has no idea which skills your agents actually use. skael is the layer that turns a folder of markdown into managed infrastructure.

”Doesn’t Claude already do org skill sharing?”

For Claude.ai and Desktop, on Team and Enterprise plans — not Claude Code, and not Cursor, Codex, or OpenCode. skael is vendor-neutral by design: it manages the SKILL.md standard across every agent your team runs, not one vendor’s walled garden.

What skael adds on top of any of these

• Cross-agent placement from one source of truth.
• Security scanning on every publish and import.
• Immutable versioning with rollback.
• Activation tracking — the only way to see which skills actually fire, by which agent, how often.