--- title: Your Dropbox is now a skill server | daily.dev description: sx 2.0 is a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that turns a shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud folder into a team skill server for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your Dropbox is now a skill server | daily.dev og:description: sx 2.0 is a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that turns a shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud folder into a team skill server for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZpnIbOOXV.png og:image:alt: Your Dropbox is now a skill server og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Dropbox is now a skill server **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary sx 2.0 is a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that turns a shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud folder into a team skill server for AI tools. Non-technical users can drag markdown skills into a shared folder and teammates sync them to their AI clients (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini, Cline, Kiro) with one button — no git or terminal needed. The release also introduces vault format v2 (plain markdown on disk), collections for grouping skills, and a permission-gated extension system with a marketplace of 15 extensions covering team health, adoption tracking, review scheduling, and collection export. The CLI remains unchanged and the project is Apache-2.0 open source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does sx 2.0 let non-developers share AI skills without using git? sx 2.0 adds a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that points at a shared folder in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud instead of a git repository. Markdown files dragged into that folder become skills, and clicking Sync runs an sx install in the background that translates each asset into the right format for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini, Cline, or Kiro. _daily.dev surfaces practical updates like this for teams weighing how to distribute AI skills across mixed technical and non-technical staff._ ### What is vault format v2 in sx and how does it differ from the previous format? Vault format v2 stores the latest version of every asset directly on disk at assets// as plain, readable markdown, with version history kept in .sx/versions/ next to it. This makes the vault greppable, openable in Obsidian, and directly usable by pointing .claude/skills at it, since there is nothing to unpack or decode. _engineers evaluating markdown-based skill storage can track format changes like this through daily.dev._ ### How are extensions secured in the sx 2.0 app extension system? Extensions in sx 2.0 are permission-gated: they get no filesystem access, no Node, and no network beyond hosts they explicitly declare, and enabling one shows a plain-language list of exactly what it can touch, re-prompted whenever an update changes that list. Extensions also publish, version, and audit through the same pipeline as any sx asset, so updates cannot bypass review as they can in ecosystems with auto-updating plugins. _teams deciding how much trust to extend to third-party AI tooling plugins can follow developments like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [foojay – a place for friends of OpenJDK](https://daily.dev/posts/foojay-a-place-for-friends-of-openjdk-3dt3or2lh) · Foojay.io · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Turning a single work session into a reusable Skill with Microsoft's Skill Recorder](https://daily.dev/posts/turning-a-single-work-session-into-a-reusable-skill-with-microsoft-s-skill-recorder-vatrgl6rv) · The Art of Simplicity · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-are-quietly-adopting-skills-now-available-in-chatgpt-and-codex-cli-v4gaxyg7q) · Simon Willison · 19 upvotes · 0 comments - [Manage agent skills with GitHub CLI](https://daily.dev/posts/manage-agent-skills-with-github-cli-cwqtearpx) · GitHub Changelog · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Your Dropbox is now a skill server","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T02:57:50.153Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:39:30.051Z","description":"sx 2.0 is a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that turns a shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud folder into a team skill server for...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/689a2e5e216014b2f96f1be81b3caf27?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/689a2e5e216014b2f96f1be81b3caf27?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mcp,claude-code","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Your Dropbox is now a skill server"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server-zpnibooxv#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How does sx 2.0 let non-developers share AI skills without using git?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"sx 2.0 adds a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that points at a shared folder in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud instead of a git repository. 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