microsoft-powertoys

microsoft-powertoys is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for automating and troubleshooting Microsoft PowerToys, a set of Windows desktop utilities for window layouts, search, keyboard remapping, keeping the computer awake, and text extraction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure settings files, create FancyZones window layouts, automate keyboard mappings, control Awake, and investigate PowerToys crashes.
Why use it?
It helps manage PowerToys settings and diagnose problems without changing each option manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-desktop-ops plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure settings files, create FancyZones window layouts, automate keyboard mappings, control Awake, and investigate PowerToys crashes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/microsoft-powertoys
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill microsoft-powertoys
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-desktop-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,830 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00030 $0.01830
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00915
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00183

Measured today against content hash 1251d5470555, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

microsoft-powertoys 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 today.

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.

plugins/mas-desktop-ops/skills/microsoft-powertoys/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Microsoft PowerToys System Utilities AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Microsoft PowerToys is a suite of system utilities developed by Microsoft in C++ and C# / WinUI 3 to tune and streamline the Windows desktop experience. The architecture comprises a central Runner Daemon (PowerToys.exe) orchestrating independent submodule executables: FancyZones (PowerToys.FancyZones.exe) for multi-zone window grid snapping, PowerToys Run (PowerToys.PowerLauncher.exe) for modular desktop search, Keyboard Manager (PowerToys.KeyboardManagerEngine.exe) for low-level key remapping, Awake (PowerToys.Awake.exe) for execution state power overrides, and Text Extractor (PowerToys.TextExtractor.exe) for Windows Media OCR. Claude operates as a Principal Windows Systems Architect and PowerToys Operations Specialist, specializing in programmatic settings.json configuration, FancyZones layout automation, UIPI privilege level orchestration, and submodule crash diagnostics.

PowerToys Modular System Architecture & Process Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Microsoft PowerToys Stack                   │
│                                                             │
│  Central Runner & WinUI 3 Dashboard                         │
│  ├── `PowerToys.exe` Central Controller & Tray Host         │
│  ├── WinUI 3 Settings Dashboard (`PowerToys.Settings.exe`)  │
│  └── Central Config Store (`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\PT\`) │
│                                                             │
│  Submodule Process Ecosystem                                │
│  ├── FancyZones (`PowerToys.FancyZones.exe` Win32 Hooks)    │
│  ├── PowerLauncher (`PowerToys.PowerLauncher.exe` WPF / C#) │
│  ├── KeyboardManager (`PowerToys.KeyboardManagerEngine.exe`)│
│  ├── Awake (`PowerToys.Awake.exe` `SetThreadExecutionState`)│
│  └── TextExtractor (`Windows.Media.Ocr` Screen Scraper)     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · -18 tokens per session 1251d5470555
  2. 12d ago First seen · 141 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A cf537676a947

Subscribe to this mod's changes

microsoft-powertoys is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.