mac-finder — Open Finder at a Directory
SkillFiles & storageOpens macOS Finder at a specified directory path, with tilde expansion and common-directory shortcuts. Use when the user asks to open a folder, navigate to a directory, browse files, show a path in Finder, or open Downloads/Desktop/Documents on macOS.
Use mac-finder — Open Finder at a Directory in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
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Also: Claude Code · Cursor · Codex
Then ask your AI: use the mac-finder skill
Details
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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_finder/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Opens Finder and navigates to a specified directory path. Supports ~ expansion and validates that the path exists before opening.
Usage
# Open a specific directory in Finder
python3 mac_finder.py "~/Downloads"
python3 mac_finder.py "/Users/benson/Desktop"
python3 mac_finder.py "/Applications"
Common directories
| Name | Path |
|---|---|
| Desktop | ~/Desktop |
| Downloads | ~/Downloads |
| Documents | ~/Documents |
| Pictures | ~/Pictures |
| Music | ~/Music |
| Movies | ~/Movies |
| Applications | /Applications |
How it works
- Expands
~to the user's home directory viaos.path.expanduser - Validates that the path exists and is a directory
- Opens the directory with
openand activates Finder viaosascript
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 92
- Forks
- 21
- Last commit
- May 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
mac-finder- Source
- github.com/leionion/clawforge