diff --git a/.local/bin/scripts/checkaccess b/.local/bin/scripts/checkaccess
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6ca0092
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.local/bin/scripts/checkaccess
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Checks whether the current user has rights to the respective file,
+# even if it does not exist.
+# First parameter defines which rights are required and is passed to "test".
+dir="$2"
+while ! test -e "$dir"
+do dir="$(dirname "$dir")"
+done
+test $1 "$dir"
diff --git a/.local/bin/scripts/chordpro-watch b/.local/bin/scripts/chordpro-watch
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5ff7768
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.local/bin/scripts/chordpro-watch
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+ls *.cho | entr -c chordpro "$@" /_
diff --git a/.local/bin/scripts/kver b/.local/bin/scripts/kver
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a737f57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.local/bin/scripts/kver
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Prints the latest Gradle and Kotlin versions
+highlight "Kotlin"
+curl https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-stdlib/maven-metadata.xml 2>/dev/null | grep 'version>' | grep -iv '\(m\|rc\)' | sed 's/.*>\(.*\)<.*/\1/' | tail -6
+highlight "Gradle"
+curl https://services.gradle.org/distributions/ 2>/dev/null | grep 'name.*all.*sha' | grep -v rc | head -6 | cut -d- -f2