A BREAKER PANEL FOR YOUR CLAUDE

Claude skills, for people who don't speak terminal.

Skills are plug-in superpowers for Claude — research agents, deck builders, spreadsheet wizards. But they live in hidden folders and config files, so most people never touch them. SkillSwitch puts every skill on a panel of switches. Arm one, and it fires at the start of your next chat — then the breaker trips off, ready for next time. If you can reset a breaker, you're qualified.

GET SKILLSWITCH HOW IT WORKS

MACOS 14+ · FREE · OPEN SOURCE · MADE FOR CLAUDE COWORK

SKILLSWITCH
SKILL LOAD CENTER · MOD. SS-100 · FOR USE WITH CLAUDE COWORK
CIRCUITSFLIP TO ARM · FIRES ONCE
DEEP-RESEARCH Personal · one-shot
PPTX Personal · one-shot
PDF Personal · one-shot
XLSX Personal · one-shot
SKILL-CREATOR Personal · one-shot
HARDWIREDBUILT INTO CLAUDE · ALWAYS ON
PLUGIN-MGMT Built into Claude
4 LIVE armed skills fire in your next chat, then trip off
HOW IT WORKS

Three parts. Zero config files.

SkillSwitch sits next to your Claude window and does one job: make every skill on your machine visible, flippable, and one click away.

01

BREAKERS

Every skill in Claude Cowork's own list gets a rocker switch. Flipping one ON arms it — your next chat invokes the skill right at the start, no typing required. The moment it fires, the breaker trips back off, like a well-behaved fuse. Your skill files stay right where they are. Skills that ship with Claude show up as hardwired circuits: always on.

02

ADD SKILLS

A discovery shelf preloaded from skills.sh with every skill above 50k installs — deduped, sorted by popularity, searchable. One click pulls the skill from GitHub straight into Claude's skill list, armed and ready to fire in your next chat.

03

LABELS

Click any skill's label to copy its /name invocation. Paste it into Cowork — or just ask for the skill in plain English. Claude picks up whatever's armed in your next conversation.

WIRING INSTRUCTIONS

Installed in twenty seconds.

No electrician required. No terminal, either.

1

Download the app

One click grabs SkillSwitch.dmg — a tiny 1 MB download.

2

Drag it to Applications

Open the downloaded file and drag the breaker panel onto the Applications folder sitting right next to it.

3

Open it and start arming

Your Claude skills appear on the panel immediately. Flip one, open a Cowork chat, watch it fire.

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REQUIRES MACOS 14+ AND THE CLAUDE DESKTOP APP (COWORK)

TROUBLESHOOTING

Frequently asked questions.

What's a "skill," anyway?
A skill is a folder of instructions that teaches Claude a repeatable job — building slide decks, running deep research, filling PDFs. Cowork keeps its list of them in a hidden manifest file. They're powerful, but invisible: there's no UI that shows you what you have. That's the whole reason SkillSwitch exists.
Do I need to use the terminal to use skills?
No. Download, drag to Applications, done — and from then on, flipping breakers, adding new skills from the discovery shelf, copying invocations: all of it is clicks. The terminal never appears. That's the whole point.
When do flips take effect?
Your next conversation. A running chat keeps the skills it started with — so arming mid-conversation won't shove a tool into Claude's hands, and tripping won't yank one out.
Why did my breaker flip itself off?
It worked! Armed breakers are one-shots: the skill fired at the start of your chat, so SkillSwitch tripped the breaker — just like a real fuse after a surge. Flip it back up whenever you want it to fire again. If a chat never uses the skill, the breaker simply stays armed for the next one.
What are the gray "hardwired" breakers?
Skills that ship inside Claude itself. They're always on and can't be flipped — the bolt on the paddle means "wired straight to the mains."
Is switching something off destructive?
No. A breaker edits the skill's entry in Cowork's skill list — its enabled flag, plus a fire-now note in the description while armed — and the skill's files aren't touched. Flipping it back restores everything. (Reinstalling a skill from Add Skills replaces that skill's folder with the fresh copy, as you'd expect.)
Does it work with Claude Code too?
SkillSwitch is built for Claude Cowork — the friendly desktop mode of Claude. Claude Code keeps its skills in a separate folder that SkillSwitch doesn't manage (yet).