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SUMMARY

A macOS menu bar app for browsing and managing your Claude Code and Codex CLI skills and agents.

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SkillsBar

A macOS menu bar app for browsing and managing your Claude Code and Codex CLI skills and agents.

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Screenshots

Claude Code skills    Codex skills    Dark mode    Skill detail view    Usage stats    About view with sort options

Features

  • Tabbed browsing - separate tabs for Claude Code and Codex skills with count badges
  • Search - filter skills by name or description
  • Pin favorites - pin frequently used skills to the top of each tab (persisted across restarts)
  • Sort options - sort skills by A-Z, Recently Modified, or Most Used (persisted across restarts)
  • Usage stats - tracks skill invocations from Claude Code and Codex CLI history with source-aware insights, summary breakdowns, and ranked per-skill usage sections
  • "New" indicator - skills modified in the last 24 hours are marked with a blue badge
  • Detail view - metadata badges, description, trigger command with copy button, file listing
  • Full content preview - expandable section to view the raw SKILL.md body
  • Quick actions - open in VS Code, open in default editor, copy path, reveal in Finder, delete
  • Right-click context menu - pin, open, copy, delete directly from the list
  • Global hotkey - toggle the popover from anywhere with Option + Shift + S
  • Agent browsing - browse Claude Code sub-agents (user and plugin) with model, color, and tools metadata
  • Live updates - FSEvents directory watcher auto-refreshes when skills are added or removed
  • No dock icon - lives entirely in the menu bar

Watched Directories

Path Source
~/.claude/skills/ Claude Code user skills
~/.claude/plugins/cache/ Claude Code plugin skills
~/.claude/agents/ Claude Code user agents
~/.codex/skills/ Codex CLI built-in and user skills

Install

  1. Download SkillsBar-vX.X.X.zip from the latest release
  2. Unzip and move SkillsBar.app to your Applications folder
  3. Remove the quarantine flag (required once for unsigned builds):
    xattr -cr /Applications/SkillsBar.app
  4. Open SkillsBar.app from Applications or Spotlight

Requirements

  • macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
  • Xcode 15+ (to build from source)

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/amandeepmittal/skillsbar.git
cd skillsbar
xcodebuild -scheme SkillsBar -configuration Release build

Or open SkillsBar.xcodeproj in Xcode and hit Run.

Tech Stack

  • Swift 5.9, SwiftUI
  • NSStatusItem + NSPopover for menu bar integration
  • FSEventStream (CoreServices) for live directory watching
  • Carbon RegisterEventHotKey for global keyboard shortcut
  • Regex-based YAML frontmatter parser (no third-party dependencies)

License

Apache-2.0

Author

Aman Mittal

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