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OpenSkills: Run Claude Skills Locally on Your Mac Anthropic recently announced Skills for Claude - reusable folders with instructions, scripts, and resources that make Claude better at specialized tasks. This tool lets you run these skills entirely on your local machine in a sandboxed environment. What this means: You can now process your files (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images) using these specialized skills while keeping all data on your Mac. No uploads, complete privacy. This tool executes AI-generated code in a truly isolated sandboxed environment on your Mac using Apple's native containers. Demo Watch Open-Skills in action with Gemini CLI: Why Run Skills Locally? Privacy:
| Stars | 378 |
| Forks | 31 |
| Language | Python |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Quality Score | 38.35/100 |
| Open Issues | 4 |
| Last Updated | 2026-01-23 |
| Created | 2025-10-26 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli, gemini, mcp, python |
| Est. Tokens | ~1013k |
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open-skills is OpenSkills: Run Claude Skills Locally using any LLM. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 378 GitHub stars.
open-skills is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as ai, claude, gemini-cli.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the open-skills GitHub repository at github.com/instavm/open-skills. The project has 378 stars and 31 forks, indicating an active community.
open-skills is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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