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Claude Code skill uses shared config to find app files

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer built a Claude Code skill for a Mac screenshot app that reads a shared config file to locate capture folders. The app writes its save path to ~/.slimsnap/config.json on launch, and the skill reads it fresh each invocation. This pattern avoids hardcoded paths or manual setup, enabling seamless agent-app integration.

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The config-file handoff is a simple but effective pattern that more desktop apps should adopt for agent compatibility.
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