manage-desktop-routines

manage-desktop-routines is a skill for Claude Code from atman-33/workhub. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for creating, backing up, and restoring Claude Code Desktop routines, which are scheduled tasks run by the desktop application on your computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage recurring or one-time local routines and move them safely between computers.
Why use it?
Local routines are stored only on one machine and are lost when you move to a new computer unless you save a backup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claude-tooling plugin — 5 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to manage recurring or one-time local routines and move them safely between computers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atman-33/workhub/manage-desktop-routines
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 atman-33/workhub --skill manage-desktop-routines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atman-33/workhub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-tooling, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,375 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 $0.00058 $0.02375
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01188
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00237

Measured 8d ago against content hash cb745cc75b4a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-desktop-routines 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 8d 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.

plugins/claude-tooling/skills/manage-desktop-routines/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manage Claude Code Desktop routines: create a local routine, and keep a portable backup so it isn't lost when you move to a new machine.

Local vs remote

Desktop's Routines page creates two different things:

  • Local — a scheduled task stored at ~/.claude/scheduled-tasks/<taskId>/SKILL.md (or under CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) on this machine only. It runs only while Desktop is open. Nothing about it is synced to the cloud, so it is lost on a fresh machine unless backed up. This skill manages local routines only.
  • Remote — a saved configuration in the user's claude.ai account, run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure. It already survives a machine change on its own and needs no backup. If the task needs to run with the machine off, or fire on an API call or GitHub event, tell the user to create a Remote routine instead, from Desktop's Routines → New routine → Remote or claude.ai/code/routines — this skill does not create those.

Ask the user which they need only if it isn't obvious from the request; local file/tool access implies Local, "even when my laptop is off" or API/GitHub triggers imply Remote.

Backup scope

list_scheduled_tasks and create_scheduled_task expose taskId, description, prompt, cronExpression/fireAt, and enabled. They do not expose the working folder or model shown in Desktop's own routine form — those live outside this tool surface. A backup/restore cycle through this skill preserves the schedule and prompt exactly, but after a restore the user must reopen each routine in Desktop and re-pick its folder and model, and re-approve any "always allow" tool permissions (these reset to Ask mode by default).

Backup directory config

The backup location is stored in config.json, next to this file (same folder as SKILL.md). It is generated from the checked-in config.example.json template and is itself git-ignored, so each installer of this skill can point it at their own directory without touching the shared marketplace repo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 8d ago First seen · 101 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A cb745cc75b4a

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manage-desktop-routines is a skill published in the GitHub repository atman-33/workhub (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,375 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 2026-09-03.