obsidian-skills-manager

github.com/cbruyndoncx/obsidian-skills-manager

2025-12-29 ~ 2026-02-20 · 53 days

AI-Assisted Burnout

An AI-assisted plugin to manage other AIs, ultimately managing its own demise

“The AI manager, managed by AI, now unmanaged”

Death Type

AI-Assisted Scope Paralysis

A plugin designed to manage 'various AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot' using a custom `SKILL.md` format. While `CLAUDE.md` provided detailed instructions for its own development, the project ultimately became an AI manager that itself required AI management, leading to its early retirement after 2 releases in 6 days.

Cause of Death

1. Rapid AI-accelerated development

The project saw 15+ commits by a solo developer within a concentrated 6-day period (2026-02-15 to 2026-02-20). This pace is highly indicative of AI assistance, as noted by the explicit guidance in 'CLAUDE.md' for 'Claude Code'.

2. Obsession with settings, styling, and installation

Significant development effort was disproportionately focused on infrastructure: `src/settings.ts` accumulated +1818 lines, `styles.css` gained +939 lines, and `src/installer.ts` added +742 lines. The interface was polished, but the actual users remained theoretical.

3. Two releases in 6 days, then silence

The project published 'v0.1.0' and 'v0.2.0' within its brief 6-day active development window. Following the last commit on 2026-02-20, the repository entered a 47-day period of absolute silence, never seeing a 'v0.3.0'.

Vibe Score

56/ 100

Real author was an AI

What They Did

Conceived as an Obsidian plugin, it aimed to provide a 'visual graphical user interface' for managing 'various AI coding agents' like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. Its ambition, laid out in 'CLAUDE.md', detailed a `SKILL.md` format for AI agent skills, including a 'disable-model-invocation' field.

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Burnout Analysis

The developer's burnout score was reported as 0/100, suggesting the human never truly engaged enough to burn out, or the AI handled the heavy lifting. 15+ commits landed in just 6 days (2026-02-15 to 2026-02-20), a pace more indicative of an automated process than human zeal. After its final commit on February 20, 2026, the project entered a 47-day period of absolute silence, a quiet retirement for both human and AI.

Dependency Archaeology

8 dependencies were installed, including `obsidian` for the host application and `jszip` for archive handling. `semver` was included, presumably to manage the versions of AI agent skills, a task that outlived the plugin's own active development. The `package.json` was comprehensive, yet the project's lifespan was brief.

Autopsy: File Structure

├──CLAUDE.mdThe true architect's blueprint, detailing development instructions for the AI, by the AI.

├──src/main.tsThe heart of the plugin, importing 10 modules and registering an Obsidian protocol handler for skill installation. It handled errors for invalid repos, but not for lack of human interest.

├──src/settings.tsThe most extensively modified file (+1818 lines), indicating an obsession with configuration over sustained functionality, for a project lasting 6 days.

├──styles.css939 lines of custom CSS, ensuring the GUI looked impeccable, even if nobody was looking.

├──src/installer.tsThe core logic for installing skills, a task it performed diligently until the project itself was uninstalled from active development.

├──package.jsonListed 8 dependencies, including `esbuild` for a build process that quickly built to nothing.

├──SKILL.md (concept)The theoretical blueprint for AI skills, complete with a 'disable-model-invocation' field, a feature the plugin itself implicitly adopted.

└──scripts/list-skills.pyA Python script mentioned in 'CLAUDE.md', a ghost of a 'reference implementation' that never quite materialized in the main JavaScript plugin.

Eulogy Stats

Total Commits: 15
Ambitious Adjectives: 2
Deploy Config: Yes
Estimated Users: 0 actual users, 3-5 theoretical AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) in management

Last Words

“The last commit on 2026-02-20 marked 'v0.2.0' — a release that released the project from further active development.”