desktop-gui-inspect

desktop-gui-inspect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from automateyournetwork/netclaw. It costs 143 tokens per session (2,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A desktop-automation skill for reading and checking applications that have no browser interface or API, such as older Java or Windows-only tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open, navigate, search, read, and confirm information in a desktop application. It is intended for checking state, not changing configuration.
Why use it?
It provides a way to inspect software that cannot be reached through normal web or command-line automation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/screenshot.sh.

Good fit Use it to open, navigate, search, read, and confirm information in a desktop application. It is intended for checking state, not changing configuration.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/automateyournetwork/netclaw/desktop-gui-inspect

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 143 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,684 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 21
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 25
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00143 $0.02684
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01342
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00268

Measured 11d ago against content hash 0bb8eac8e413, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

desktop-gui-inspect 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 11d 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.

workspace/skills/desktop-gui-inspect/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Desktop GUI Inspect Skill

Purpose

browser-gui-inspect (spec 048) fills gaps in web-based controller dashboards NetClaw's API-based skills can't reach. But some legacy network/security tooling has no web GUI or API at all — only a native desktop application. Browser automation cannot reach those; this skill can. It drives OpenClaw's own ClawHub computer-use skill — a real virtual X11 desktop (Xvfb + XFCE) on this NetClaw host, controlled via xdotool-based mouse/keyboard/screenshot scripts — to read, navigate, and confirm state in a desktop-only application.

This skill deliberately contains no per-application knowledge. Every invocation is directed by the operator's own target_application/intent at request time — nothing about any specific legacy tool's UI layout is hardcoded here (Constitution VI — Multi-Vendor Neutrality), the same design principle browser-gui-inspect follows. See specs/050-computer-use-desktop/ for the full spec, research, and design behind this skill.

Golden Rule — Read/Confirm/Search Only, Never a Config-Change Mechanism

The underlying desktop actions (click, type, drag, key combinations, scrolling) are for reading, navigating, and confirming state on the virtual desktop — never for submitting, applying, or committing a configuration change to network infrastructure. If a request would require clicking something like "Apply," "Commit," "Save," or "Deploy" in a legacy tool's configuration workflow, stop and tell the operator that this must go through the relevant API-based skill instead, which implements the proper observe→baseline→modify→verify workflow and ServiceNow CR gating (Constitution I, II, III, VIII). Using this skill to bypass that workflow would create an unaudited, unverified side door around NetClaw's safety model — the same reasoning browser-gui-inspect documents for its own interactive tools (see that skill's own Golden Rule, and specs/048-chrome-devtools-browser-inspection/research.md R8).

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 11d ago First seen · 154 lines · 143 tokens per session scan A 0bb8eac8e413

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desktop-gui-inspect is a skill published in the GitHub repository automateyournetwork/netclaw (652 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 143 tokens to every session and 2,684 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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