SkillsBar

Claude Code, Codex, project skills, plugins, collections, and agents in the menu bar.

macOS 14+ SwiftUI Free & open source Carbon HotKey

Your AI skill library, always visible.

Browse, search, pin, group, and track usage of your Claude Code and Codex skills, plugins, project workspaces, collections, and agents from a lightweight menu bar popover.

SkillsBar popover showing Codex built-in skills with source filters.
Skills popover with tabbed browsing, source filters, and badges.

Features

Install

Download SkillsBar.zip from GitHub Releases, unzip and move to Applications, then remove the quarantine flag:

Terminal
$ xattr -cr /Applications/SkillsBar.app

Project skills

Approve local project folders, inspect their skills, agents, instruction files, recents, conflicts, and launch the project in Claude Code, Codex, or your editor.

Plugins and agents

Browse installed Codex plugins with versions and included skills, plus Claude Code sub-agents with model, color, and tools metadata.

Usage stats

Track invocations from Claude Code history, Codex CLI history, and Codex Desktop session rollouts with source-aware insights and ranked sections.

Settings

Toggle What's New, choose system, light, or dark appearance, pick an installed editor, start at login, and control the default sort order.

Codex built-in skills with source filters
Codex built-ins
Project Skills screen with an approved local project
Project Skills
Project overview with quick actions and recent project skills
Project overview
Project skills list with project-local skills and agents
Project items
Settings view with appearance, editor, and sort controls
Settings
Collections tab with source filter chips
Collections
Codex plugin detail with metadata and included skills
Plugin detail
Project skill detail with validation preview and usage command
Project skill detail
Global instructions menu
Instructions
Right-click menu for a skill
Context menu