Shpigford

Chops — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community intermediate

1,000+ macOS app to browse, edit, and manage skills across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and Amp.

How to install Chops

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Shpigford/chops and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Chops does

  • Multi-tool support — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, Aider, Amp - Skills + Agents — Discovers both skills and agents from each tool's directories - Built-in editor — Monospaced editor with Cmd+S save, frontmatter parsing

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README

Chops

Your AI skills and agents, finally organized.

Download · Website · @Shpigford

One macOS app to discover, organize, and edit coding agent skills and agents across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and Amp. Stop digging through dotfiles.

Features

  • Multi-tool support — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Copilot, Aider, Amp
  • Skills + Agents — Discovers both skills and agents from each tool's directories
  • Built-in editor — Monospaced editor with Cmd+S save, frontmatter parsing
  • Collections — Organize skills and agents without modifying source files
  • Real-time file watching — FSEvents-based, instant updates on disk changes
  • Full-text search — Search across name, description, and content
  • Create new skills & agents — Generates correct boilerplate per tool
  • Remote servers — Connect to servers running OpenClaw, Hermes, or other layouts to discover, browse, and install skills

Prerequisites

  • macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later
  • Xcode with command-line tools (xcode-select --install)
  • Homebrew (brew.sh)
  • xcodegen — brew install xcodegen

Sparkle (auto-update framework) is the only external dependency and is pulled automatically by Xcode via Swift Package Manager. No manual setup needed.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/Shpigford/chops.git
cd chops
brew install xcodegen    # skip if already installed
xcodegen generate        # generates Chops.xcodeproj from project.yml
open Chops.xcodeproj     # opens in Xcode

Then hit **Cmd+R** to build and run.

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