Fu-Jie_openwebui-extensions/plugins/tools/openwebui-skills-manager/README.md

🧰 OpenWebUI Skills Manager Tool

Author: Fu-Jie | Version: 0.2.0 | Project: OpenWebUI Extensions

A standalone OpenWebUI Tool plugin to manage native Workspace > Skills for any model.

Key Features

• 🌐 Model-agnostic: Can be enabled for any model that supports OpenWebUI Tools.
• 🛠️ Simple Skill Management: Directly manage OpenWebUI skill records.
• 🔐 User-scoped Safety: Operates on current user's accessible skills.
• 📡 Friendly Status Feedback: Emits status bubbles for each operation.

How to Use

1. Open OpenWebUI and go to Workspace > Tools.
2. Create a new Tool and paste openwebui_skills_manager.py.
3. Enable this tool for your model/chat.
4. Ask the model to call tool operations, for example:
   • "List my skills"
   • "Show skill named docs-writer"
   • "Create a skill named meeting-notes with content ..."
   • "Update skill ..."
   • "Delete skill ..."

Example: Install Skills

This tool can fetch and install skills directly from URLs (supporting GitHub tree/blob, raw markdown, and .zip/.tar archives).

Install a single skill from GitHub

• "Install skill from https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/search_manager"
• "Install skill from https://github.com/Fu-Jie/openwebui-extensions/blob/main/.agent/skills/test-copilot-pipe/SKILL.md"

Batch install multiple skills

• "Install these skills: ['https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/search_manager', 'https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/guide_writer']"

Tip

: For GitHub, the tool automatically resolves directory (tree) URLs by looking for SKILL.md or README.md.

Configuration (Valves)

Parameter	Default	Description
SHOW_STATUS	True	Show operation status updates in OpenWebUI status bar.
ALLOW_OVERWRITE_ON_CREATE	False	Allow create_skill/install_skill to overwrite same-name skill by default.
INSTALL_FETCH_TIMEOUT	12.0	URL fetch timeout in seconds for skill installation.

Supported Tool Methods

Method	Purpose
list_skills	List current user's skills.
show_skill	Show one skill by skill_id or name.
install_skill	Install skill from URL into OpenWebUI native skills.
create_skill	Create a new skill (or overwrite when allowed).
update_skill	Update skill fields (new_name, description, content, is_active).
delete_skill	Delete a skill by skill_id or name.

Support

If this plugin has been useful, a star on OpenWebUI Extensions is a big motivation for me. Thank you for the support.

Others

• This tool manages OpenWebUI native skill records and supports direct URL installation.
• For advanced orchestration, combine with other Pipe/Tool workflows.

Changelog

See full history in the GitHub repository releases and commits.