# Managing Chezmoi Packages

> Use this skill when managing packages, external dependencies, binaries, or CLI tools in a chezmoi dotfiles repository. Handles adding/updating/removing packages in .chezmoidata/packages.yaml, creating .chezmoiexternals/ organized files, pinning versions with Renovate automation, and selecting the correct package ecosystem (Homebrew, mise, Python, Docker, chezmoi externals).

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-martinemde-managing-chezmoi-packages
- tashan id: skill:martinemde/managing-chezmoi-packages
- Source: https://github.com/martinemde/dotfiles
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 96.0
- Freshness: 92.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: ISC
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r managing-chezmoi-packages ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-21 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.