A BREAKER PANEL FOR YOUR CLAUDE

Claude skills, for people who don't write code.

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. And if you don't know what a skill is yet: turn on a persona — marketer, editor, sparring partner — and Claude plays the role.

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

SKILLSWITCH
SKILL LOAD CENTER · MOD. 0.9.7 · FOR USE WITH CLAUDE COWORK
PERSONASONE FLIP · CLAUDE PLAYS THE ROLE
SPARRING PARTNER Grills ideas · brainstorms · writes plans
MARKETER Copy · content strategy · SEO
EDITOR Sharpens structure, rhythm, copy
CIRCUITSFLIP TO ARM · FIRES ONCE
GRILL-ME Personal · one-shot
BRAINSTORMING Personal · one-shot
WRITING-PLANS 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. Red means Claude can't see the skill at all. Green means it's live — and a ⚡ on the paddle means it will definitely fire next chat, then trip. Your skill files stay right where they are. Skills that ship with Claude show up as hardwired circuits: always on.

02

PERSONAS

New to all of this? Start here. A persona is a bundle of skills that makes Claude act a certain way. Turn on MARKETER and Claude thinks in positioning, copy, and SEO. Turn on SPARRING PARTNER and it grills your ideas and writes plans that survive contact. Six ship built in — or build your own from any skills on your panel.

03

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.

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.
And what's a persona?
The friendlier front door. A persona bundles several skills into one switch that makes Claude play a role — marketer, editor, sparring partner. Turn one on and every skill in it arms at once: Claude plays that role at the start of your next chat, then the switches trip off — the same one-shot rule as a single breaker. Turn it on again whenever you want the role back. You don't need to know what a skill is to use one.
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. Switching off removes the skill's entry from Cowork's list — that's what actually hides it from Claude — while the skill's files stay exactly where they are, and SkillSwitch remembers the entry so flipping back on restores it perfectly. (Reinstalling a skill from Add Skills replaces that skill's folder with a 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).
LAST STEP

Give your Claude its switches.

Twenty seconds from click to flipped breaker.

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