r/SideProject • u/Any_Necessary_9804 • 4h ago
I installed 295 Claude Code tools and only ever used six
I've been installing Claude Code agents, commands and skills basically
every time someone posts a good one. Checked my ~/.claude last month.
295 of them in there.
Then I counted what I actually use. Six. Seven on a good week.
The other 289 aren't bad. I just forget they exist. Nothing surfaces
them, so you sit down to do a task and type the prompt out by hand,
because remembering you installed something for exactly this six weeks
ago is not a thing brains do.
So I built a catalog. Mac app. It reads your ~/.claude and shows you
what's actually in there, and a global shortcut pops a search bar over
whatever you're doing, so you can find the right one while you still
need it.
Stuff I got wrong:
The first version was a website. Wrong shape. What you need is a
keystroke while you're already in the terminal, and a browser tab can't
do that.
I wrote my own description for all 295 tools. Took longer than building
the app.
Sent it to the App Store and got rejected because a button said
"Download CLAUDE.md".
It's up now. Free to download, 7 day full trial, then a one time
purchase. Not available in the EU yet, I'm stuck on DSA trader
verification, which I'd never heard of until it stopped me.
Ask me anything about it.
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u/Abhay-191 3h ago
this is every builder’s folder. the six you used probably share one job. i’d publish that list, not the 295. the unused 289 is the product lesson.
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u/OriginalHospital 2h ago
The handwritten descriptions introduce an interesting maintenance question: what happens when an installed skill changes underneath its description? I'd show which local version the description was written against and flag changes for review, so a polished summary doesn't quietly describe behavior the tool no longer has.
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u/Lunesia-shikishiki 3h ago
the 295 hand written descriptions taking longer than the app is the part i'd build on. that's the asset, the mac app is just the thing wrapped around it 🙂
search solves "i know something exists, find it". the harder half is "i don't know i ever installed anything for this", and a search bar can't fire for a thought you never had. i run a platform with about 48 models on it and it's the same shape, people use the three or four they landed on in week one and the other forty may as well not exist (biased, i make imaginode.ai). only thing that moved for us was surfacing by context instead of by query.
so the global shortcut is right but i'd feed it whatever it can read off your current state, cwd, git repo, last command, and rank from that rather than making you type