A macOS desktop app that finds and manages every Claude Code configuration file. Fifteen scattered config files, one place to deal with them.
The Story
Somewhere around my fifth Claude Code project, I noticed a pattern: I kept losing track of my own configuration. Claude Code has something like fifteen config files — CLAUDE.md, settings.json, keybindings, rules, skills, hooks, agents — scattered across your home directory and every project folder. I'd set something up, forget about it, set up something slightly different somewhere else, and wonder why nothing worked the way I expected.
To put it in terms I understand: it was like running a law practice where every case file is in a different building and none of them are labeled.
Context Cabinet is the filing system. A native macOS app that finds every Claude Code config file on your machine, shows you what each one does, lets you edit them with proper syntax highlighting, and lays out the scope hierarchy so you can see what's overriding what.
Built with Claude
Yes, I used Claude Code to build a tool for managing Claude Code. I'm aware.
This was the project that dragged me furthest from anything I'd done before. Electron, React, TypeScript, Zustand, CodeMirror, Framer Motion, Radix UI — six months earlier I could not have told you what any of those words meant, and I include "React" in that statement. Now there's a desktop app on my dock that uses all of them.
The interesting wrinkle was the audience. Everything else I've built is for my family or for fun. This is a developer tool — for people who actually know what they're doing. I had to think through UX conventions I use every day but had never implemented: command palettes, keyboard shortcuts, file watchers, tree views. It's one thing to use Cmd+K. It's another thing entirely to build Cmd+K.
I also learned more about Electron's architecture than I ever planned to. Main process, renderer process, IPC bridges, sandboxing. Claude was patient. I was not.
