SkillsBar

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

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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 session transcripts with insights, ranked list, and per-skill usage cards
• "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