Sync
Before onplate, skills are usually installed by hand: copy a file into the AI folder and it works. Such skills live outside onplate: they have no version history and nobody checked them for safety. The Sync section finds them and helps you take control.
Scan system
Press Scan system — onplate walks the folders of every supported AI (Claude, Codex, Cursor, GLM, OpenCode) and shows everything that is there. At the top: the time of the last scan and a summary:
Found 12: importable 8, modified manually 2, conflict 1, unknown format 1
Where to look
The scan always covers the AI home directories (~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.cursor…) and Claude Code projects. Everything else is configured in the Where to look block, which holds two separate lists:
- Project folders — directories where you keep your projects. Projects inside them are discovered recursively. If you point at a skills folder by mistake, onplate notices and suggests the project root instead.
- Skill folders — a specific skills directory that sits outside the usual places. Once added, onplate says right away how many skills it saw in it.
After a scan a Where we looked summary appears next to it: how many directories were checked, how many skills were found, which directories are missing and where access was denied. An empty result stops being a mystery — you can see what was actually examined.
Instruction files
A separate block lists the AI instruction files that were found (CLAUDE.md and the like) and how many blocks inside them onplate manages. If a file is entirely yours, it says so — “your text only”. Any file can be revealed in its folder.
Statuses of what was found
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Importable | An ordinary skill; onplate can take it into storage as is |
| Modified manually | onplate knows this skill, but somebody edited the file on disk directly — it differs from the version in storage |
| Conflict | The file matches no saved version — you have to decide whose edit wins |
| Unknown format | The file sits in a skills folder, but onplate could not parse it |
| Missing | The install is on record in the bindings, but the file is gone from disk |
The list can be filtered by status and by AI.
Actions
- Import — copy the skill that was found into the onplate storage (it gains versions, a security check and installs into other AI tools). Import all takes everything that was found at once.
- Take under management — not just a copy, but a link between the file that was found and a record in storage: from there onplate controls its updates and versions.
- Ignore — mark it as “I know about this file, stop showing it”.
- Delete from disk — remove the file from the AI folder (with a confirmation).
When to use it
- Right after installing onplate — scan the system first: everything accumulated over the years becomes visible and manageable.
- From time to time — if you or your colleagues occasionally drop skills into AI folders by hand. The “external”, “edited by hand” and “gone from disk” counters on the Dashboard will tell you when.