Skill Spotlight — Development skill for Claude Code

SkillSpotlight

Use skills explicitly, anywhere you can type.

SkillSpotlight is a macOS snippet launcher and universal skill manager for skills, prompts, commands, and reusable text. Collect skills from Claude Code, Codex, team repositories, personal prompt folders, and other agent platforms into one searchable place. Open it with a global shortcut, type a few characters, then paste, copy, or reveal the matching entry without leaving your current workflow.

Add a direct snippet like `foo` -> `bar`, search for `foo`, press `Enter`, and SkillSpotlight inserts `bar` into the focused window. Or import a directory, such as `~/.claude/skills`, and SkillSpotlight turns the files inside it into searchable entries. Optional prefixes like `claude:` or `codex:` make each source clear in results.


Installation

1. Download the DMG, open it, and drag SkillSpotlight.app to /Applications.
2. If macOS blocks the unsigned app, run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SkillSpotlight.app

1. Open SkillSpotlight from /Applications.

macOS Permissions

SkillSpotlight asks for system access when a feature needs it:

• Accessibility: requested on app startup when missing. Paste mode needs it to return focus to the previous app and send Cmd+V; without it, pressing Enter or clicking a search result may copy the snippet to the clipboard but fail to insert it into the target app. Copy mode still works without it.
• Automation/System Events: macOS may ask for this when SkillSpotlight activates the previous app or asks System Events to paste.
• Files and Folders: used when you import a skill directory, reveal a source file, or reveal the config file. SkillSpotlight reads the directories you choose and stores config locally.
• Clipboard: used to copy snippets and to paste by temporarily placing the selected snippet on the clipboard.

Full Disk Access is not req