Macbook Desktop Mode

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc

Configure a MacBook as an always-on-AC desktop workstation with USB device resilience, battery longevity, and self-healing audio device monitoring. Covers charge limits, sleep optimization, powered USB hub with uhubctl, and the AudioDeviceMonitor Swift guardian (state machine + wake detection + heartbeat + recovery cascade + Telegram notification). Use whenever the user mentions desktop mode, always on AC, charge limit, battery longevity, USB device disappearing, sleep settings, powered hub, thermal management, or USB microphone dead after sleep. Do NOT use for general macOS troubleshooting unrelated to the desktop workstation pattern.

What this skill does

Macbook Desktop Mode is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/macbook-desktop-mode/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use whenever the user mentions desktop mode, always on AC, charge limit, battery longevity, USB device disappearing, sleep settings, powered hub, thermal management, or USB microphone dead after sleep. Do NOT use for general macOS troubleshooting unrelated to the desktop workstation pattern.

Who uses this skill

The Macbook Desktop Mode skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/macbook-desktop-mode
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/macbook-desktop-mode/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/macbook-desktop-mode/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/macbook-desktop-mode/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/macbook-desktop-mode/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\macbook-desktop-mode\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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