computer-use

computer-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from coldmint9/Synax. It costs 21 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for controlling the user's actual desktop, including native apps, system dialogs, and signed-in applications, after the user authorizes the task. It observes the desktop before acting and checks the result afterward.

In plain words
What is it for?
Performing approved actions in native desktop applications, system dialogs, or a signed-in browser when ordinary isolated browser automation is not suitable.
Why use it?
It separates sensitive desktop control from ordinary isolated browser testing. Re-observing after actions helps avoid acting on stale windows or repeating an action that may already have happened.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Performing approved actions in native desktop applications, system dialogs, or a signed-in browser when ordinary isolated browser automation is not suitable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/coldmint9/synax/computer-use
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 coldmint9/Synax --skill computer-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coldmint9/Synax

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 366 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 $0.00021 $0.00366
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00146
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 21d ago against content hash b62fc07993de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

computer-use 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 21d 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.

services/local-node/skills/builtin/computer-use/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Computer Use

Cua controls the user's actual desktop, including signed-in applications and sensitive information. The built-in browser.* tools instead manage Synax's isolated Chromium. Use browser.* for ordinary web application testing, and Cua only when the user asks for their actual desktop, native apps, system dialogs, or signed-in browser.

  1. Observe first: list apps and windows, then get a fresh window state or accessibility tree. Never guess a window identifier or coordinate.
  2. Prefer fresh semantic elements and snapshot-bound tokens. Use pixels only when the semantic path cannot address the target. Do not invent capture_id or element_token values.
  3. On macOS 27, use delivery_mode: "foreground" for native window actions; background delivery is not reliable for the current CUA runtime. On other platforms, use background only when the runtime explicitly supports it.
  4. Perform one consequential action at a time. Reobserve after window changes, page navigation, and actions; verify the user's desired postcondition before claiming success.
  5. A timeout or lost response may mean the action already happened. Never repeat click, typing, submit, launch, kill, or clipboard write without reobserving and user approval when appropriate.
  6. Avoid unnecessary full-screen captures, clipboard reads, secrets, and account data. Do not copy desktop content into logs or unrelated tools.
  7. If the driver is unavailable, permissions are missing, or a target is ambiguous, stop and explain the specific blocker rather than using shell commands to bypass restrictions.
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. 21d ago Changed b62fc07993de
  2. 22d ago First seen · 21 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 680ecdeb5ea4

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computer-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository coldmint9/Synax (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-29.

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