Skillscout — Development skill for Claude Code

Skillscout is a Mac app for the skills your coding agents load. It finds every skill on your Mac, shows which agents can see each one, and counts how often you use them.

It knows 8 agents: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Droid, Pi and Amp. Each one reads skills from its own folders, and some also read the folders of the others. So a skill you wrote for Claude Code can load in Cursor but not in Codex. Skillscout maps all of it, and adds a skill to the agents that miss it with one click.

It also reads your chats. It counts a use every time an agent loads a skill, and it looks for requests you keep typing, so you can turn them into new skills.

Read the announcement and watch the 1-minute demo on my blog: [I built Skillscout, a Mac app for the skills your coding agents load](https://flaviocopes.com/skillscout/).

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Download

Get `Skillscout-1.0.0.zip` from the [latest release](https://github.com/flaviocopes/skillscout/releases/latest), unzip it, and drag Skillscout to your Applications folder. It runs on macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Opening it the first time

Skillscout isn't signed with an Apple Developer ID or notarized by Apple. So the first time you open it, macOS says it "could not verify Skillscout is free of malware". Click **Done**, then allow it in one of two ways.

In System Settings, open **Privacy & Security** and scroll down to the message about Skillscout. Click **Open Anyway**, confirm, and open the app again. The button shows up for about an hour after you try to open the app.

In Terminal, remove the quarantine flag macOS adds to downloaded files, then open the app:

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

The same command fixes a message saying Skills