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Everything you might ask
I'm brand new to Claude. Is this for me?
Yes, that's exactly who we built it for. You bring a Claude subscription from Anthropic; Clevskill sets up your desktop the way an expert would and keeps it that way. You never touch a terminal.
I already have my own skills and customizations. What happens to them?
They stay, and they get covered. Setup starts with Detect, which inventories what's already on the machine. Your own skills get the same weekly health checks ours do; your configs, memory files, and key storage get scanned for problems; and nothing changes without a backup snapshot first and your approval. If something unusual in your setup is intentional, mark it as an exclusion and it stops being flagged, visibly, never silently.
I already have Claude set up and it's a mess. Can you fix it?
Yes. The installer has a Repair mode: a read-only diagnostic first scans nine areas (skills, configs, MCP servers, memory bloat, secrets posture, costs, version drift, safety hooks, Claude auth), shows you exactly what's wrong, and fixes it with your approval. Your files, projects, and history stay untouched; a backup is taken before any change.
What exactly does Clevskill manage?
Your Claude Code and Claude Cowork desktop installations: setup, curated skills, safety guards, encrypted keys, usage-cost hygiene, and ongoing health monitoring. We never proxy or resell tokens.
How does ClevSkill protect my files?
Every command the AI runs passes through the guard: catastrophic operations are blocked outright, ordinary deletes are snapshotted to a backup folder first with one-command restore, and every decision is logged with a timestamp. The audit log shows exactly what the AI did and didn't do. The guard significantly reduces the risk of accidental file loss, though no software can guarantee zero risk from all possible actions.
Doesn't Claude already protect my files?
Partially. Claude Cowork asks before permanently deleting files, which is good. ClevSkill goes further: we back up BEFORE any destructive operation runs (so mistakes are reversible with one command, not just refusable), and we keep a complete local audit log of everything the AI did. Notably, Cowork activity isn't included in Anthropic's enterprise audit logs; ours is.
How fast is setup, really?
Minutes per desktop. The installer detects your current setup, installs your pack, wires the safety hooks, and verifies the result before it says done.
What counts as a desktop (seat)?
One installed machine. Your license encodes the seat count; add or remove desktops any time from your dashboard.
Why pay monthly if the skills are installed once?
The subscription isn't access to skills, it's keeping them working. Claude updates regularly and setups break; subscribers get continuous skill updates, the weekly health scan, one-click repair, the monitoring dashboard, sync between computers, and support. A setup-only purchase configures your machine the safe way and leaves you the free safety pack to keep; the managed (paid) catalog, updates, and monitoring come with a subscription.
What happens if I cancel?
Your license expires at the end of the period. Your files, your own skills, the free safety pack, and your Claude subscription stay put. What stops is what the subscription provides: updates, the weekly Doctor, repair, monitoring, and sync. The managed (paid) pieces are then removed: you export your vault keys (the app walks you through it) and run the uninstaller, which backs everything up reversibly first. We never hold a copy of your keys, so export them before you go.
What if I uninstall ClevSkill entirely?
Export your vault keys first: use the Vault app's 'move my secrets to another PC', or clevskill-vault export, and keep that bundle somewhere safe. The uninstaller then reversibly backs up and removes the ClevSkill products (the paid skills, the guard, the Doctor, monitoring). Your files, projects, your own skills, and your Claude subscription are untouched. We never hold a copy of your keys, so we cannot recover them for you.
Where do my secrets and license live?
In an encrypted vault on your own machine, with the master key in your OS keychain. A copy of your license also lives on your account page. Neither is ever sent anywhere else.
What does monitoring send you?
Only the scoreboard: finding counts and titles from the weekly health scan, engine version, and a timestamp. Never file contents, configs, keys, or chat history. It is opt-in at enrollment.
Whose Claude plan does the AI use?
Your own. ClevSkill runs on your Claude subscription (your auth plan). If your subscription hits a problem, the Doctor diagnoses it and the AI automatically falls back to your API key so work doesn't stop. You bring the plan; we never proxy or resell tokens. And we never see or store your API key, it stays in the encrypted vault on your own computer.