IpMan - Intelligence Package Manager

I can take on ten.

The skills housekeeper for AI agents: discover, organize, absorb, dedup and clean the skills already on your machine. Never installs, never destroys.

What is IpMan?

Your agent installs skills; nothing tidies them. Folders get copied around, duplicates drift apart, links break, and every installed skill competes for your agent's limited skill-listing budget. IpMan is the missing housekeeper — a disk-cleanup utility for agent skills.

It does not install or uninstall skills. Agent-native mechanisms keep doing that. IpMan organizes what's already there:

• See clearly — status / scan map every scope (user-global, per-project) and classify each skill: real dir / symlink / broken / duplicate / suite-managed
• One original, linked everywhere — absorb moves loose skills into a central store (each becomes a git repo — tracked from then on) and leaves symlinks in place; dedup merges byte-identical copies
• Off without losing — disable drops the link, keeps the original; enable brings it back; pack does it set-at-a-time
• Custody, optionally — takeover makes a whole skills directory survivable: even rm -rf is one sync away from restored
• Clean, reversibly — findings are quarantined to ~/.ipman/trash, never deleted

Run bare ipman in a terminal for the interactive TUI; every operation also exists as a plain CLI command with --json for agents and scripts.

Quick links

• Installation
• Quick Start
• How It Works
• Managing Skills
• CLI Reference
• GitHub Repository

Dormant features

Earlier incarnations (IpHub registry, .ip.yaml bundles, install/add commands, the security-mode engine, shell prompt tags) are dormant or retired — see Dormant Features. The store/symlink/lockfile engine they pioneered now powers the housekeeper.