Open Skills Management Tool (OSMT) helps employers, educators, military organizations, and other stakeholders create and share skills libraries for education and hiring. It uses the Rich Skill Descriptor standard, which connects skill statements with metadata such as keywords, occupation codes, and alignments. Users can search, author, edit, organize, and publish skills and collections, with branded hosting for skills definitions. OSMT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and costs 0.00 USD per free. It is available for web, API, Linux, macOS, and Windows use, including self-hosting, and supports custom skill taxonomies. Users can batch-import skills from CSV and export published skills or collections as CSV. The project supports OAuth2, including Okta and Google, and provides Admin, Curator, and Viewer roles with differing permissions. Its API supports anonymous skill searches and UUID filtering. The local Quickstart is intended for evaluation, and its database should be treated as temporary; production deployment can vary by organization. Support comes through the open-source community, documentation, GitHub discussions, and the issue tracker.
Who it is for
OSMT is intended for employers, workers, learners, educators, military organizations, and educational institutions working with skills libraries. It may suit organizations that want to organize or share skill definitions using an open standard.
What is good
- Open source under Apache 2.0
- Supports custom skill taxonomies
- CSV import and export are available
- OAuth2 support includes Okta and Google
- Defines Admin, Curator, and Viewer roles
What to know first
- Quickstart database is temporary
- Production deployment varies by organization
- Single-auth mode is only for local development and testing
Verdict
OSMT provides tools for creating, managing, and publishing skills libraries, with CSV workflows and role-based access. Treat the Quickstart as an evaluation setup and plan a production deployment suited to your organization.
Open Skills Management Tool (OSMT) plans and pricing
All plansCompared on skills management software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Skill taxonomy
- custom
