Janitor swipe

Skill khendzel/skills-janitor/skills/janitor-swipe

Tinder for your Claude Code skills. Swipe away what wastes context, scan for prompt injection, get honest token costs. 6 commands, zero dependencies, Claude Code + Codex.

Install

npx -y skills add khendzel/skills-janitor --skill janitor-swipe

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Tinder for your Claude Code skills. Reviews a sorted deck of every installed skill and lets you swipe keep / delete / skip on each one. Use when the user wants to bulk-clean their skill collection, triage unused skills, or do interactive skill cleanup. Trigger with '/janitor-swipe'.

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SKILL.md

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Janitor Swipe — interactive skill triage

A bash TUI that puts every installed skill into a sorted deck and lets the user swipe keep / delete / skip on each card.

Overview

The deck is sorted "most likely waste first" — heavy, never-used skills appear at the top, so most users hit ← delete a few times and quit before reviewing the whole list. The swipe is scope-aware and honest about what it can delete: user-scope skills are actually removed (after confirmation), plugin skills are flagged for review instead.

Prerequisites

Claude Code with the skills-janitor plugin installed (provides scripts/swipe.sh and swipe-build-deck.sh)
bash 3.2+ (the stock macOS bash works; no external dependencies)
An interactive terminal at least 50 columns x 22 rows — the TUI reads single keypresses

Instructions

Step 1: Tell the user to run it via `!`

Inside Claude Code, the Bash tool's stdin is non-interactive, so the keypress reader can't work. The user must invoke it via the ! prefix so the command runs in their actual shell:

!bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh

When the user asks for /janitor-swipe, tell them to run that command in their terminal. Do NOT try to run it yourself via the Bash tool — it will error with "needs an interactive terminal".

Step 2: Explain the card and controls

Each card shows:

Skill name + position in deck (e.g. [3 / 47])
Context cost split: X always · Y on trigger (description tokens are permanent; body loads only when the skill fires)
Usage count and last invoked date
Scope (user, project, plugin · <plugin-name>, etc.)
3-line truncated description
Verdict label (e.g. "Unused + heavy on trigger — prime delete candidate")

Controls:

← / h / d — stage for delete
→ / l / k — keep
↓ / j / s / space — skip
u — undo (back up one card, clear its decision)
i — inspect (show full SKILL.md description)
q / Esc — quit (still shows summary for decisions made so far)

Step 3: Scope-aware deletion (the critical correctness point)

Scope	What happens on swipe left
`user`, `project`, `codex-user`, `codex-project`	Path is staged for `rm -rf` (or unlink if symlink)
`plugin`, `plugin-source`	NOT deleted — flagged under "Plugins to review" at the apply screen, with a hint to run `/plugin uninstall <plugin>` if enough skills from that plugin were swiped
`mcp-user`, `mcp-project` (v1.7)	Server entry is removed from its config file (`~/.claude.json` / `.mcp.json`) with a timestamped `.bak` backup — reversible
`mcp-plugin`	NOT edited — flagged for plugin review like plugin skills

MCP server cards show real call counts from session transcripts instead of token guesses (schemas live server-side). An unused connected server ranks high — its tool schemas load into context for nothing.

Output

After the last card (or q), an apply screen shows keep/skip/delete counts, the deletion list with paths, the "frees X always-loaded + Y on-trigger" token summary, the plugin review breakdown, and a prompt:

y — apply deletions immediately (logged to ~/.skills-janitor/log.jsonl with path and frontmatter snapshot)
N — cancel
save — write decisions to ~/.skills-janitor/swipe-<timestamp>.json for later application via swipe.sh --apply <file>

Error Handling

Error: "Swipe needs an interactive terminal" Solution: The command was run through the Bash tool. Have the user run it with the ! prefix in their own terminal.
Error: "Swipe needs at least 50 columns / 22 rows" Solution: The terminal window is too small — resize and retry.
Error: No skills to swipe Solution: Nothing is installed (exits 0 with a message) — suggest /janitor-discover to find skills.
Error: The user wants a non-interactive view instead Solution: Point them at /janitor-report or /janitor-value for the same data in list form.

Edge cases handled by the script: Ctrl-C mid-swipe restores the terminal; symlinks are unlinked, never followed; old saved decks without the v1.5 token-split fields still load.

Examples

Example 1: Standard triage

Input: "/janitor-swipe" or "help me clean up my skills interactively"

Output: Explain the flow in two sentences, then give the exact command to run: !bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh — and offer to review the results afterwards.

Example 2: Resume saved decisions

Input: "I saved my swipe decisions yesterday — apply them."

Output: !bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh --apply ~/.skills-janitor/swipe-<timestamp>.json (list the files in ~/.skills-janitor/ to find the right one).

Resources

TUI script (plugin-relative): {baseDir}/../../scripts/swipe.sh; deck builder: {baseDir}/../../scripts/swipe-build-deck.sh
Deletion log: ~/.skills-janitor/log.jsonl
/janitor-report — same data as a non-interactive list
/janitor-value — the token + usage data underneath the swipe deck
/janitor-fix --prune — automated broken-symlink cleanup, no interactive review