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SkillReg vs Skillkit: Local Skills Manager vs Hosted Skill Registry
Facts about third-party tools were checked on October 16, 2026. Each one links to a numbered, dated source at the bottom of the page. Anything we could not check is marked "not verified".
Skillkit and SkillReg both help teams use agent skills across several coding agents, so they are often compared. They sit at different layers: Skillkit is a command-line toolbox that runs on your machine, and SkillReg is a hosted registry where an organization publishes and governs its skills. This page compares them and shows how they can work together.
What Skillkit is
Skillkit is an open-source command-line tool published on npm as skillkit, from the rohitg00/skillkit repository, under the Apache-2.0 license [1]. Version 1.24.0 was published on April 21, 2026; it was still the latest version on npm on October 16, 2026 [1].
Its README describes a "universal skills manager for AI coding agents" that can "install, manage, and sync skills across 46 AI agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more" [1]. Notable features [1]:
- Install from GitHub, for example
skillkit install anthropics/skills, to one or several agents. - Translate between agent formats with
skillkit translate my-skill --to cursor. - Sync installed skills to every detected agent with
skillkit sync --all. - Team commands:
skillkit team init,team bundle-create,team shareandteam sync, described as "sync with remote registry". - Much more on top: recommendations, plans, hooks, workflows, session memory, skill tests and an optional local REST server.
Which remote registry skillkit team sync uses, and whether Skillkit offers a hosted service, access control or audit logs, is not verified (as of October 16, 2026): the README does not say, and we could not read the project documentation on GitHub for this review.
What SkillReg is
SkillReg is a hosted private registry for your organization's SKILL.md skills:
- Publish versions with
skillreg pushand install them with semver ranges usingskillreg pull(Installing Skills). - Install for Claude, Codex and Cursor from the CLI or the desktop app, which also detects updates.
- Manage organization members, API tokens with read, write or admin scopes, and organization-level environment variables (Token Management).
- Security scanning on every publish on all plans, including Free (advanced checks on Enterprise); basic audit logs from Team, full audit logs on Enterprise; SSO and approval workflows on Enterprise (pricing).
Side-by-side comparison
| Question | Skillkit | SkillReg |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Open-source CLI that runs locally [1] | Hosted registry with a CLI, web app and desktop app |
| Where skills are stored | Installed from GitHub into each agent’s folder [1] | In your organization’s registry, then installed locally |
| Agents | 46 agents listed [1] | Claude, Codex and Cursor |
| Format translation | Yes, skillkit translate [1] | No: one SKILL.md installed into each agent’s skills folder |
| Team sharing | skillkit team commands with a remote registry; registry not verified [1] | Organization registry with members and tokens |
| Versions | Not documented in the README (not verified) | Published versions, semver ranges on install |
| Security scanning, audit log | Not documented in the README (not verified) | Scanning on every publish, all plans (advanced on Enterprise); audit logs from Team |
| Price | Open source, Apache-2.0 [1] | Free plan; Team $29/month flat per organization; Enterprise on quote |
When to use which
Use Skillkit if you are an individual developer who switches between many agents, especially less common ones, and wants one local tool to install, translate and sync skills.
Use SkillReg if your organization needs a shared source of truth for its own skills: who published which version, which scan results came with it, and who is allowed to install it.
Using both
Skillkit works on each developer's machine; SkillReg holds the organization's catalog. A team can publish internal skills to SkillReg, install them with skillreg pull, and still use Skillkit locally for agents that SkillReg does not target yet. Check what Skillkit writes into each agent folder before combining the two tools on the same project.
Related comparisons
- SkillReg vs skills.sh
- SkillReg vs Claude Code Plugin Marketplaces and GitHub Skill Repos
- SkillReg and MCP Registries
Sources
- skillkit 1.24.0 on npm, README and package metadata (repository rohitg00/skillkit, license Apache-2.0). Version published 2026-04-21, latest version on npm when checked 2026-10-16.