powerskills-desktop

A Windows desktop automation tool for screenshots, window management, keystrokes, and launching applications. It works with visible windows and can target a named window.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture the full screen or a window, list or focus windows, minimize or maximize them, send keystrokes, and start apps such as Notepad.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform routine screen and application actions manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aloth/powerskills/desktop
Any agent
npx skills add aloth/PowerSkills --skill desktop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aloth/PowerSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 585 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 $0.00053 $0.00585
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51f71b1a530a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

powerskills-desktop 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (desktop.ps1), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/desktop/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

PowerSkills — Desktop

Desktop automation: screenshots, window management, keystrokes, app launching.

Requirements

  • Windows with .NET Framework (System.Windows.Forms, System.Drawing)

Actions

.\powerskills.ps1 desktop <action> [--params]
Action Params Description
screenshot --out-file path.png [--window "title"] Full screen or window capture
windows List all visible windows with title, PID, process name
focus --window "title" Bring window to foreground
minimize --window "title" Minimize window
maximize --window "title" Maximize window
keys --keys "{ENTER}" [--window "title"] Send keystrokes (SendKeys syntax)
launch --app notepad [--app-args "file.txt"] [--wait-ms 3000] Launch application

Examples

# Full screen screenshot
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop screenshot --out-file screen.png

# Capture a specific window
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop screenshot --out-file outlook.png --window "Outlook"

# List all windows
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop windows

# Focus and type into Notepad
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop focus --window "Notepad"
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop keys --keys "Hello world{ENTER}" --window "Notepad"

# Launch an app
.\powerskills.ps1 desktop launch --app "notepad.exe" --app-args "C:\temp\notes.txt"

SendKeys Syntax

Key Syntax
Enter {ENTER}
Tab {TAB}
Escape {ESC}
Ctrl+C ^c
Alt+F4 %{F4}
Shift+Tab +{TAB}

See Microsoft SendKeys docs for full syntax.

Output Fields

windows

title, pid, process, hwnd

screenshot

saved, width, height, window (if window capture)

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 75 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 51f71b1a530a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

powerskills-desktop is a skill published in the GitHub repository aloth/PowerSkills (35 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 585 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

x402

Set up Browser Use Cloud payments with x402 — pay per request from a crypto wallet (USDC on Base mainnet), no signup or API key. Two setups it works out up front — "just use it" (set up a wallet so you or Claude Code can run cloud browser tasks paid from the wallet — Claude writes and runs throwaway scripts, nothing…

browser-use/browser-use · 175 tokens

browser-use

Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work.

browser-use/browser-use · 26 tokens

remote-browser

Controls an isolated Browser Use Cloud browser from a sandboxed machine with the current Browser Use CLI.

browser-use/browser-use · 22 tokens

opencli-browser

Use when an agent needs to drive a real Chrome window via opencli — inspect a page, fill forms, click through logged-in flows, or extract data ad-hoc. Covers the selector-first target contract, compound form fields, stale-ref handling, network capture, and the agent-native envelopes the CLI returns. Not for writing…

jackwener/OpenCLI · 80 tokens

opencli-adapter-author

Use when writing an OpenCLI adapter for a new site or adding a new command to an existing site. Guides end-to-end from first recon through field decoding, adapter coding, and verify. Replaces opencli-oneshot / opencli-explorer. For ad-hoc browser driving (no adapter), see opencli-browser instead; for a top-level…

jackwener/OpenCLI · 88 tokens

cloud

Documentation reference for using Browser Use Cloud — the hosted API and SDK for browser automation. Use this skill whenever the user needs help with the Cloud REST API (v2, v3, or v4), browser-use-sdk (Python or TypeScript), X-Browser-Use-API-Key authentication, cloud sessions, browser profiles, profile sync, CDP…

browser-use/browser-use · 177 tokens