desktop-sync

desktop-sync is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from haiggoh/claude-code-desktop-sync. It costs 72 tokens per session (838 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for keeping MCP server settings aligned between Claude Code and Claude Desktop. MCP servers are small programs that give an AI assistant extra tools or access to data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sync settings on demand, check what is or is not synchronized, copy a server between the apps, and troubleshoot missing MCP servers or the GitHub connector.
Why use it?
It reduces mismatches when a server appears in one Claude app but not the other. It can also report which synchronization steps require manual work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the claude-code-desktop-sync plugin — 1 skill, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haiggoh/claude-code-desktop-sync/desktop-sync
Any agent
npx skills add haiggoh/claude-code-desktop-sync --skill desktop-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haiggoh/claude-code-desktop-sync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-desktop-sync, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 hook.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 838 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00072 $0.00838
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00084

Measured 3d ago against content hash 0b6f20e957ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

desktop-sync scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 3d ago.

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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/desktop-sync/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage Claude Code ⇄ Claude Desktop sync

This skill manages the claude-code-desktop-sync plugin, which mirrors stdio MCP servers between Claude Code (~/.claude.json) and Claude Desktop's config file, both directions, via a SessionStart hook. Use it to run a sync on demand, report status, and guide the user through the steps that can't be automated.

Where things live

  • Engine (plugin install): ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../bin/sync_code_desktop.py (${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} IS substituted inside skill bodies; ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} is NOT — only use the latter in hooks.)
  • Engine (standalone install.py install): ~/.claude/desktop-sync/sync_code_desktop.py
  • Sync state (per-server snapshot): ~/.claude/desktop-sync/last-sync-state.json
  • Backups (timestamped, mode 600): ~/.claude/desktop-sync/backups/
  • Full reference: the plugin's docs/SYNC-REFERENCE.md.

Common actions

Sync now: run the engine and relay its report. Try the plugin path first, then the standalone path — whichever exists on this machine:

python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../bin/sync_code_desktop.py" 2>/dev/null || python3 ~/.claude/desktop-sync/sync_code_desktop.py

It is silent when nothing changed. Any output tells you what synced and any manual steps. (Use python instead of python3 on Windows if python3 is not found.)

Show status / what is syncing: read ~/.claude/desktop-sync/last-sync-state.json and summarize: the stdio servers (auto-synced both ways), remote servers (need the manual Desktop connector), and skills (not auto-synced).

"I added a server in Code but Desktop doesn't have it": MCP changes take effect at the next session, or run a sync now (above). Then have the user restart Claude Desktop so it reloads its config.

What this can and cannot do — state this plainly, never over-promise

  • stdio MCP servers (command/args/env) sync automatically, both directions. Relative launchers like npx are rewritten to absolute paths for Desktop (which has no shell PATH).
  • ⚠️ HTTP / hosted / header-auth MCP servers (e.g. a PAT-authenticated github connector) can't live in the Desktop config file. Tell the user to add it manually: Claude Desktop → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
  • Skills don't auto-sync (Desktop manages skills in-app) — the user adds them in Desktop's UI.
  • Memory, settings, extensions, and sessions/conversations are not syncable — separate stores / schemas / app-only concepts. Never claim they are shared; give the manual equivalent if asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 60 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 0b6f20e957ee

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desktop-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository haiggoh/claude-code-desktop-sync (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 838 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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