flow-launcher

flow-launcher is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,007 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Flow Launcher, a Windows search and shortcut tool that can run programs and extensions. It covers writing its Python or C# plugins, which communicate with the launcher through a structured message format, and connecting searches to Everything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or repair Flow Launcher plugins, edit plugin manifests, route search queries, integrate Everything search, and resolve keyboard-shortcut conflicts.
Why use it?
It helps developers build and troubleshoot launcher extensions without guessing how plugin files, searches, and message handling fit together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or repair Flow Launcher plugins, edit plugin manifests, route search queries, integrate Everything search, and resolve keyboard-shortcut conflicts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/flow-launcher
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill flow-launcher
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,007 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.02007
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01004
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00201

Measured yesterday against content hash 067349096561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-launcher scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

subprocess.Popen("taskmgr.exe")
skills/flow-launcher/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Flow Launcher Extensible Productivity AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Flow Launcher is an open-source, extensible productivity launcher and desktop search application for Windows built on C# / .NET 8 and WPF. Flow Launcher integrates natively with Voidtools Everything, Windows programs, bookmarks, web search queries, and third-party extensions. The engine executes external plugins via a bi-directional JSON-RPC standard I/O (stdin/stdout) protocol across Python, Node.js, and executable binaries, or natively in-process via C# .NET assemblies (Flow.Launcher.Plugin.dll). Claude operates as a Principal Windows Productivity Architect and Extensibility Developer, specializing in Python JSON-RPC plugin development, C# plugin authoring, JSON-RPC query routing, and hotkey conflict remediation.

Flow Launcher System Architecture & JSON-RPC Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Flow Launcher Architecture                  │
│                                                             │
│  UI Presentation & Search Bar Layer                         │
│  ├── WPF Search Canvas (Themes, Acrylic Blur, Animations)   │
│  ├── Global Hotkey Engine (Default: `Alt + Space`)          │
│  └── Result List View (Icons, Subtitles, Action Menus)      │
│                                                             │
│  Plugin Host & Query Dispatcher Core                        │
│  ├── Action Keyword Router (e.g. `g` Google, `w` Wikipedia) │
│  ├── Native C# In-Process Host (`IPlugin`, `IContextMenu`)  │
│  └── Out-of-Process JSON-RPC Engine (Python / Node / Exec)  │
│                                                             │
│  Data & Indexing Integration Subsystem                      │
│  ├── Everything Search IPC Bridge (`Everything64.dll`)      │
│  ├── Windows Shell Programs & Control Panel Indexer         │
│  └── Settings Store (`%APPDATA%\FlowLauncher\Settings\`)   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · -17 tokens per session 067349096561
  2. 7d ago First seen · 194 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ff686028eacc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow-launcher is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,007 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.