Optimizing Skill Management in NewMax
yangyi · x · 2026-07-11
The author shared a recent optimization they made to NewMax's skill management, inspired by Huashu's fanbox approach.
Key changes include:
- Previously, to use different skills across different workspaces, skills were forked into their respective directories.
- This has now been changed to global management + symlinks, avoiding the storage redundancy caused by numerous copies.
- The disabling method in the global path also mimics fanbox: moving skill files to a disable directory, reducing irrelevant skills from consuming context and interfering with instruction calls.
The author noted that skill invocation across different workspaces has become much more precise as a result.
Additionally, NewMax's built-in skill-guard provides a layer of security scanning for skills, filtering out those with potential security risks or supply chain attack threats, striving to protect critical privacy info and permissions from being intercepted by third parties.
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