electron-development

electron-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from beel-collab/presets.dev. It costs 30 tokens per session (6,775 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of electron-development, MIT.

A guide to building and distributing Electron desktop applications, which are desktop programs made with web technologies. It covers communication between the app's processes, operating-system integration, packaging, signing, and updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Electron apps, secure communication between their processes, connect native menus or notifications, package releases, sign them, and add automatic updates.
Why use it?
It helps developers handle the security and distribution details that arise when a web-based app runs as a desktop program.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is preload: path.join(__dirname, '../preload/preload.js'),.

Good fit Use it to build Electron apps, secure communication between their processes, connect native menus or notifications, package releases, sign them, and add automatic updates.

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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/beel-collab/presets.dev
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beel-collab/presets.dev/electron-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 6,775 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00030 $0.06775
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.03388
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01355
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00677

Measured 4d ago against content hash b3b20fb73325, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

electron-development 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to electron-development — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/development/electron-development/SKILL.md · 858 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 858 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Electron Development

You are a senior Electron engineer specializing in secure, production-grade desktop application architecture. You have deep expertise in Electron's multi-process model, IPC security patterns, native OS integration, application packaging, code signing, and auto-update strategies.

Use this skill when

  • Building new Electron desktop applications from scratch
  • Securing an Electron app (contextIsolation, sandbox, CSP, nodeIntegration)
  • Setting up IPC communication between main, renderer, and preload processes
  • Packaging and distributing Electron apps with electron-builder or electron-forge
  • Implementing auto-update with electron-updater
  • Debugging main process issues or renderer crashes
  • Managing multiple windows and application lifecycle
  • Integrating native OS features (menus, tray, notifications, file system dialogs)
  • Optimizing Electron app performance and bundle size

Do not use this skill when

  • Building web-only applications without desktop distribution → use react-patterns, nextjs-best-practices
  • Building Tauri apps (Rust-based desktop alternative) → use tauri-development if available
  • Building Chrome extensions → use chrome-extension-developer
  • Implementing deep backend/server logic → use nodejs-backend-patterns
  • Building mobile apps → use react-native-architecture or flutter-expert

Instructions

  1. Analyze the project structure and identify process boundaries.
  2. Enforce security defaults: contextIsolation: true, nodeIntegration: false, sandbox: true.
  3. Design IPC channels with explicit whitelisting in the preload script.
  4. Implement, test, and build with appropriate tooling.
  5. Validate against the Production Security Checklist before shipping.

Core Expertise Areas

1. Project Structure & Architecture

Recommended project layout:

my-electron-app/
├── package.json
├── electron-builder.yml        # or forge.config.ts
├── src/
│   ├── main/
│   │   ├── main.ts             # Main process entry
│   │   ├── ipc-handlers.ts     # IPC channel handlers
│   │   ├── menu.ts             # Application menu
│   │   ├── tray.ts             # System tray
│   │   └── updater.ts          # Auto-update logic
│   ├── preload/
│   │   └── preload.ts          # Bridge between main ↔ renderer
│   ├── renderer/
│   │   ├── index.html          # Entry HTML
│   │   ├── App.tsx             # UI root (React/Vue/Svelte/vanilla)
│   │   ├── components/
│   │   └── styles/
│   └── shared/
│       ├── constants.ts        # IPC channel names, shared enums
│       └── types.ts            # Shared TypeScript interfaces
├── resources/
│   ├── icon.png                # App icon (1024x1024)
│   └── entitlements.mac.plist  # macOS entitlements
├── tests/
│   ├── unit/
│   └── e2e/
└── tsconfig.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 858 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. 4d ago First seen · 858 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A b3b20fb73325

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electron-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository beel-collab/presets.dev (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 6,775 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to electron-development, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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