screenshot

A command that captures one PNG screenshot from a managed remote desktop. It can work with Linux or macOS leases and can save the image to a chosen path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Warming a desktop lease, taking a screenshot, choosing an output file, and selecting the network through which the remote desktop is reached.
Why use it?
It provides a quick way to verify what a remote computer is displaying without opening a full VNC viewer.

Command

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 commands/openclaw/crabbox/screenshot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 963 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 $0.00000 $0.00963
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00096

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3e2e4e55fb20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screenshot 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.

docs/commands/screenshot.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

screenshot

crabbox screenshot captures a single PNG from a desktop lease without opening a VNC client. It is the fastest way to confirm what a remote box is rendering.

crabbox warmup --desktop
crabbox screenshot --id swift-crab
crabbox screenshot --id swift-crab --output desktop.png
crabbox screenshot --id swift-crab --network tailscale

How it works

The command resolves and touches the lease the same way crabbox ssh does, claims it for the current repo if asked, then waits for the loopback desktop/VNC service to come up before grabbing a frame. The capture method depends on the target OS:

  • Linux captures over SSH. It sources /var/lib/crabbox/desktop.env when present, prefers grim on Wayland, and otherwise screenshots DISPLAY=:99 with scrot (falling back to ImageMagick import). If no capture tool is found, it exits with a hint to warm a fresh --desktop lease.
  • macOS captures the managed Screen Sharing/VNC framebuffer through the lease SSH tunnel. EC2 Mac SSH sessions cannot reliably run screencapture against the login-window display, so the framebuffer path is used instead. External macOS leases use the approved operator-managed account credential referenced by external.connection.desktop.passwordEnv and authenticate the framebuffer connection with ARD.
  • Windows creates a one-shot scheduled task inside the logged-in crabbox console session, because non-interactive SSH sessions cannot capture the visible desktop. The screenshot reflects that active console session.

Managed AWS and Azure Windows desktop leases enable auto-logon for the generated crabbox user, store that password under C:\ProgramData\crabbox, and use it only on the instance to run the scheduled capture task.

Output path

If --output is omitted, Crabbox writes to the current directory as:

crabbox-<slug-or-id>-screenshot.png

--output accepts any path; missing parent directories are created. On success the command prints screenshot: <path>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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 · 96 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3e2e4e55fb20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screenshot is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 963 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.