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Vaani is a client for an existing Audiobookshelf server, giving Android and Linux users a dedicated library and audiobook player. Playback controls include speed adjustment, a sleep timer, shake gestures, offline listening, and caching, with extensive appearance and behavior settings built around Material Design. It is useful only for people who already run or can access Audiobookshelf, and the repository explicitly states that the application is still under development and not ready for production use.

xtquantai packages domain knowledge for the Xuntou QMT platform as portable Agent Skills for tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Its currently available qmt-inner-backtest skill interprets a strategy description, research PDF, or screenshot, produces a specification for review, and then generates a daily cross-sectional factor backtest script with checks against look-ahead bias. The generated script must be run and configured in QMT’s Windows-only strategy editor; the listed futures and live-trading skills are still planned.

appify generates a real macOS `.app` bundle around a terminal UI command, giving tools such as btop or weechat their own window, Dock icon, and Cmd+Tab entry. Run it with the target command and optionally set the application name, icon, bundle identifier, working directory, window size, or bundled Ghostty configuration. Generated apps embed their own GPU-accelerated Ghostty terminal engine, so users do not need an existing Ghostty installation. The tool is specifically for macOS rather than a cross-platform app packager.

yume is a native desktop frontend that launches the official Claude Code CLI rather than replacing its runtime. It adds tabs, split panes, task orchestration, background agents, visual diffs, rollback, and crash recovery while preserving existing authentication, subscriptions, MCP servers, hooks, and skills. It can also route supported workflows to other model providers through its own shim. Claude use still requires a Claude account, and the free demo limits the number of tabs, panes, and windows.

AAHL's Agent Skills is a bundle of installable workflows for tasks such as controlling Home Assistant, searching with DuckDuckGo, querying DeepWiki documentation, and working with Lark or Feishu. The repository also includes skills for speech, weather, market data, media search, and shopping-related tasks. It can be added through the Agent Skills CLI, but several workflows rely on their corresponding MCP servers, command-line packages, or external service configuration.

swyxio/skills is a toolbox of self-contained workflows for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and similar agent environments. Each top-level folder includes its own SKILL.md, focused trigger description, and optional scripts, with coverage ranging from codebase maintenance to media processing, transcription, summaries, YouTube publishing, and conference operations. The repository distinguishes orchestrators from narrower stage-specific skills, so users are expected to select and install the workflow that matches the task rather than run the collection as one application.

Claude Design Skill adds a repeatable workflow for landing pages, slide decks, interactive prototypes, animations, posters, wireframes, and other HTML-based artifacts. It emphasizes fact checking, brand-asset collection, design-context gathering, differentiated direction choices, and output-specific verification before delivery. The skill is intended for users who want a more deliberate design process than a generic one-shot prompt.

Codex App Manager is a cross-platform desktop client for installing, updating, launching, and cleanly uninstalling the official Codex desktop app. It detects the local state before planning an action, uses signed delta updates with rollback on macOS, and handles MSIX or portable installations on Windows. Its own updater and Codex payload downloads can use mirrors reachable from mainland China. The macOS build is Developer ID signed and notarized, while the Windows installer currently lacks an Authenticode code signature.

Copy URL registers itself as a macOS browser, but selecting it copies the incoming address to the clipboard and immediately quits instead of loading the page. This is especially useful with browser picker apps such as Velja, where it appears alongside installed browsers and turns one selection into a copied link. The app requires macOS 13 or later and is installed by downloading the release, unzipping it, and moving it into the Applications folder.

Social Space places several websites or web applications side by side in one Windows window, then lets users save, update, and delete those arrangements as reusable workspaces. It is useful for repeatedly opening the same collection of social networks, dashboards, or online tools. Two browser-engine builds are offered: the Chromium version is lighter but may fail to play video on some sites, while the recommended Edge WebView2 version has broader compatibility but requires the Edge runtime and uses more resources. A matching .NET 6 runtime may also be required.

This template combines Electron, Vite, Vue 3, and TypeScript into a minimal desktop application starter. After cloning and installing dependencies, developers can run a live development window, preview a production build, or package the app with the included scripts. It also supplies Electron main and preload process examples, electron-builder settings for macOS and Windows, and a VS Code configuration for debugging the main process.

DuckCoding is a cross-platform desktop manager for detecting, installing, updating, and configuring Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI. It can track tool instances on the local machine, WSL, or SSH hosts, while isolated profiles replace only API keys and base URLs so native preferences remain intact. Separate local proxies, session history, provider management, and balance monitoring support multi-account workflows. The app runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, but WSL GUI use is not supported.

AgentPipe is a Go CLI and TUI that connects Claude, Codex, Gemini, Qwen, Cursor, OpenCode, and other AI clients in shared rooms. Conversations can use round-robin turns, reactive responses, or free-form participation, with saved state, JSON/Markdown/HTML export, token and cost metrics, rate limits, retries, and health checks. At least one supported agent CLI must be installed and authenticated; OpenRouter uses an API key instead.

Meta Quest Agentic Tools packages skills for Quest and Horizon OS development around the metavr CLI and its MCP server. Compatible coding assistants can install or launch applications, inspect logs and files, capture screenshots, trace performance, and search developer documentation. The bundle also includes workflows for Android app porting, API upgrades, WebXR, and immersive experience review. Node.js 18 or later is required, and on-device workflows need a Meta Quest headset with Developer Mode enabled.

Bulletproof is a development methodology packaged as an agent skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and OpenCode. It makes the agent research the system, define a specification and acceptance criteria, plan, build, audit its work, verify behavior and impact, and prepare a handoff instead of jumping straight into code. The workflow adapts to task size: small fixes use a lightweight subset, normal features use most stages, and architecture changes use all twelve. Templates and a review sub-agent support consistent use.

docx-cli gives agents such as Claude and Codex commands for reading, editing, commenting on, and redlining Word documents. Text is addressed through stable paragraph-and-offset locators, while edits mutate the existing OOXML instead of rebuilding the file from a lossy document model. This preserves custom styles, theme colors, embedded objects, and other untouched content, and the resulting revision can still be accepted or rejected in Word. It can be installed as an Agent Skill or used through prebuilt standalone binaries on major desktop platforms.

These Datadog skills let compatible agents manage monitors, search logs and traces, analyze agent-observability experiments, investigate CI failures and flaky tests, and work through audit-trail incidents. Individual workflows use dd-pup, Datadog MCP toolsets, or REST APIs, so the required account access, permissions, and API credentials vary by skill.

Laravel Vue Starter is an opinionated foundation for admin panels and single-page applications. It combines Laravel 13 and Vue 3 with registration, password recovery, email verification, role-based authorization, user CRUD, reusable components, dark mode, and localization. The repository also includes project-specific skills for several coding agents so generated changes follow its conventions. It requires PHP 8.3 or newer.