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janitor-swipe

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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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)

ScopeWhat happens on swipe left
user, project, codex-user, codex-projectPath is staged for rm -rf (or unlink if symlink)
plugin, plugin-sourceNOT 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-pluginNOT 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

  1. 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.

  2. Error: "Swipe needs at least 50 columns / 22 rows" Solution: The terminal window is too small — resize and retry.

  3. Error: No skills to swipe Solution: Nothing is installed (exits 0 with a message) — suggest /janitor-discover to find skills.

  4. 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

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