by andy-portmen
Communicate with external applications of your OS through a toolbar button or context menu item.
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-buttonGuides for using mcp servers skills like external-application-button.
Last scanned: 7/27/2026
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}external-application-button is an open-source mcp servers skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by andy-portmen. Communicate with external applications of your OS through a toolbar button or context menu item. It has 247 GitHub stars.
Yes. external-application-button passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
external-application-button is primarily written in JavaScript. It is open-source under andy-portmen on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other MCP Servers skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the MCP Servers category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh external-application-button against similar tools.
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Use external applications through a toolbar button or context menu item.
This extension lets you create a customizable toolbar button (action button) and context menu items to execute programs with your chosen command-line arguments. For example, you can:
This extension can be used with coding agents such as OpenCode. Also it can help other extensions to introduce their tools to the agents. Read FAQs page for more info.