Skills Backup Keeper

Your skills folder can be wiped without warning. This skill makes sure that costs you five minutes, not five weeks.

What it produces

• A dated, never-overwritten copy of your whole skills folder at /Documents/Cowork/skills-backup/YYYY-MM-DD/, with a backup-manifest.md listing exactly what was copied.
• An append-only session-journal.md (goal, files touched, decisions, next steps) stored in skills-backup/, outside the skills folder, so a wipe cannot take it too. A new conversation reads it and resumes where the last one stopped.
• A guided, approval-gated restore that copies a chosen backup back into /Documents/Cowork/skills/ and verifies the result against the manifest.

What to say to it

• “Back up my skills folder before I edit anything”
• “Update the session journal: we finished the budget review skill, next step is testing”
• “New conversation. Where did we leave off?”
• “My skills folder is empty again. Restore from the latest backup.”

How to install it

1. 1Download skills-backup-keeper.zip.
2. 2In Cowork, open Customize.
3. 3Select the Skills tab.
4. 4Select the arrow next to Add, then Upload skill, and choose the file you downloaded.
5. 5Start a new conversation and use one of the phrases above. Skills are only picked up when a conversation starts.