Mac App Store

Mac App Store is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by daxaur in openpaw.

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Install Mac App Store

Copy Mac App Store into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw/tree/main/skills/c-apps ~/.claude/skills/c-apps

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/c-apps/SKILL.md in daxaur/openpaw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/c-apps
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Mac App Store does

Mac App Store installs, updates, and searches Mac App Store apps from the command line with mas. Use it to find app IDs, install apps, check updates, and open App Store pages.

Mac App Store is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Mac App Store comes from a repository tagged ai-agent, anthropic, automation, claude and claude-code.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Mac App Store (mas)

# Search for apps
mas search Xcode
mas search "Bear Notes"

# Install by app ID
mas install 497799835    # Xcode

# List installed apps
mas list

# Check for outdated apps
mas outdated

# Upgrade all outdated apps
mas upgrade

# Upgrade specific app
mas upgrade 497799835

# Show app info
mas info 497799835

# Open app page in App Store
mas open 497799835

Guidelines

User must be signed into the Mac App Store
On macOS 15+, install/upgrade requires admin password
Use mas search to find app IDs before installing
mas upgrade updates all apps — confirm with user first
Free and paid apps both work (paid requires prior purchase)

Frequently asked about Mac App Store

What else does daxaur publish alongside Mac App Store?
Mac App Store is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from daxaur/openpaw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI LLM Tools, Apple Notes And Reminders and Bluetooth Control. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Mac App Store does, and is maintained by daxaur in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the daxaur/openpaw page.
How does Mac App Store compare to other Automation skills?
Mac App Store ranks #2016 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Mac App Store against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.