electron-app-dev

electron-app-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from delta-and-beta/electron-dev-bridge. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,319 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development and automation guide for Electron desktop apps. Electron is a framework for building desktop applications with web technologies, and this guide connects to the app to inspect and control it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch or connect to an Electron app, inspect its pages and windows, automate interactions, work with desktop-to-page communication, and capture screenshots.
Why use it?
It lets developers examine app windows and page elements directly while testing, instead of debugging only through code or manual clicking.

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/delta-and-beta/electron-dev-bridge/electron-app-dev
Any agent
npx skills add delta-and-beta/electron-dev-bridge --skill electron-app-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/delta-and-beta/electron-dev-bridge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,319 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 $0.00056 $0.01319
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00660
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00264
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00132

Measured 4d ago against content hash e47f58d8dd01, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

electron-app-dev 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.

skills/electron-app-dev/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Electron App Development with electron-dev-bridge

Use the MCP bridge to connect, inspect, interact with, and screenshot your Electron app directly from Claude Code.

Prerequisites

  1. Install: npm install electron-dev-bridge
  2. Generate config: npx electron-mcp init
  3. Register: npx electron-mcp register
  4. Start your app with --remote-debugging-port (or let electron_launch handle it)

Connecting

# Launch and auto-connect (random port if configured port is busy)
electron_launch  appPath="/path/to/{YOUR_APP}"

# Or connect to an already-running app
electron_connect

Complete Tool Reference (41 tools)

Connection & Targets

Tool Use for
electron_launch Launch app with debug port and connect
electron_connect Connect to running app
electron_list_targets List all BrowserWindows (multi-window)
electron_switch_target Switch to a different window

DOM Queries

Tool Use for
electron_query_selector Find one element by CSS selector
electron_query_selector_all Find all matching elements (max 50)
electron_find_by_text Find elements by visible text content
electron_find_by_role Find elements by ARIA role
electron_get_accessibility_tree Full a11y tree with roles and names

Interaction

Tool Use for
electron_click Click by selector or coordinates
electron_type_text Type into input (appends to existing)
electron_fill Clear field then type new text (replaces)
electron_press_key Press Enter, Tab, Escape, arrows, etc.
electron_select_option Select dropdown option by value or text
electron_hover Hover to trigger :hover states and tooltips

State Reading

Tool Use for
electron_get_text Get innerText of element
electron_get_value Get input/textarea/select value
electron_get_attribute Get specific attribute
electron_get_bounding_box Get element position and size
electron_get_url Get current page URL
electron_evaluate Run arbitrary JS in the renderer
electron_get_page_summary One-call page overview (counts, errors, loading state)
electron_get_form_state All form fields with values, labels, validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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 · 143 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A e47f58d8dd01

Subscribe to this mod's changes

electron-app-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository delta-and-beta/electron-dev-bridge (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,319 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 2026-08-31.

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