mac-activate — Bring an App to the Foreground
SkillDev toolsBrings a specified macOS application to the foreground using osascript, making its window visible and focused. Use when the user asks to switch to an app, bring an app to front, activate an application, focus a window, or show a running app on macOS.
Use mac-activate — Bring an App to the Foreground in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
Free. Sign in, add mac-activate — Bring an App to the Foreground and connect your AI. About a minute.
Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex
Then ask your AI: use the mac-activate skill
Details
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
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No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by leionion/clawforge in skills/05-Interaction/mac_activate/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Activates a specified macOS application and brings its window to the front using AppleScript.
Usage
python3 mac_activate.py "Finder"
python3 mac_activate.py "Terminal"
python3 mac_activate.py "Safari"
python3 mac_activate.py "Google Chrome"
How it works
- Sends
tell application "<name>" to activateviaosascript - Can also list currently running (non-background) apps via System Events
Requirements
- macOS with
osascript(pre-installed)
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 92
- Forks
- 21
- Last commit
- May 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
mac-activate- Source
- github.com/leionion/clawforge