SkillsBar

A macOS menu bar app for browsing and managing your Claude Code and Codex skills, project skills, plugins, collections, and agents.

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Features

• Tabbed browsing - separate tabs for Claude Code, Codex, and Collections with count badges
• Search - filter skills, plugins, agents, and collections by name, description, metadata, collection trigger commands, and source tokens such as source:project
• Command Palette - press Cmd + K inside the popover to search skills, agents, plugins, collections, projects, tool screens, and actions from one place, with inline copy-trigger and open-in-editor buttons
• Pin favorites - pin frequently used skills to the top of each tab (persisted across restarts)
• Settings - choose whether to show What's New, switch between system, light, and dark appearance, and control the default sort from one place
• Project workspace view - manage trusted project folders in a dedicated screen with project skills, project agents, instruction files, health, conflicts, recents, pinning, rename, and reorder controls
• Project instructions - detect project-local CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and .codex/AGENTS.md files next to the trusted project
• Instructions Hub - one screen for global and project instruction files with Ready, Missing, Empty, and Unreadable states, plus open-or-create actions in your preferred editor
• Project actions - create collections from a project, open the project in Claude Code or Codex, and create .claude/skills with explicit consent when onboarding an empty project
• Preferred editor - choose an installed editor such as VS Code, WebStorm, Cursor, Zed, or Xcode for opening skills, agents, plugins, and global instructions
• Start at Login - open SkillsBar automatically when you sign in, with a shortcut to Login Items settings if approval is needed
• Sort options - sort skills by A-Z, Recently Modified, or Most Used, with the selected order persisted across restarts
• Collections - create custom cross-source groups that can mix Claude Code and Codex skills in one saved view
• Codex plugin browsing - browse installed Codex plugins with version, publisher, capabilities, included skills, and quick open/reveal actions
• What's New - spotlight skills and installed plugins changed in the last 7 days in a dedicated section
• Usage stats - tracks Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Codex Desktop skill invocations in app-owned history, with 30d, 7d, and All ranges, daily/monthly heatmaps, quick hover totals by source, and ranked per-skill usage that still counts deleted skills
• Skill Health - a checkup screen in the footer Tools menu that flags invalid frontmatter, missing descriptions, duplicate triggers, missing collection paths, unreadable folders, and stale pins, with one-click cleanup actions
• "New" indicator - skills modified in the last 24 hours are marked with a blue badge
• Detail views - inspect rich metadata for skills, agents, and Codex plugins, including trigger commands, included skills, and file listings
• Full content preview - expandable section to view the raw SKILL.md body
• Quick actions - open items in your preferred editor, copy paths, reveal in Finder, and manage items from the list
• Right-click context menu - pin, add to collections, open, copy, and delete directly from the list
• About & utilities - view watched directories, library counts, and reveal watched folders directly in Finder from the About screen
• Global hotkey - toggle the popover from anywhere with Option + Shift + S
• Keyboard navigation - arrow keys and Return to browse and open items, Esc to go back or clear search, Cmd + Left to navigate back, Cmd + K for the Command Palette
• 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, plugins, or agents are added or removed
• No dock icon - lives entirely in the menu bar

Watched Paths

Path	Source
~/.claude/skills/	Claude Code user skills
~/.claude/plugins/cache/	Claude Code plugin skills
~/.claude/agents/	Claude Code user agents
<project>/.claude/skills/	Approved project-level Claude Code skills
<project>/.claude/agents/	Approved project-level Claude Code agents
<project>/CLAUDE.md	Approved project Claude Code instructions
<project>/AGENTS.md	Approved project Codex instructions
<project>/.codex/AGENTS.md	Approved project Codex instructions
~/.codex/skills/	Codex user skills (.system/ built-ins)
~/.codex/plugins/cache/	Codex plugins and plugin-provided skills
~/.codex/history.jsonl	Codex CLI skill invocation history
~/.codex/sessions/	Codex Desktop session rollouts

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)

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