silenthand

silenthand is a skill for Codex from edosulai/silenthand-cua. It costs 70 tokens per session (4,921 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

Instructions for SilentHand CUA, a local Mac computer-control host and its supporting command-line setup. CUA means computer-use automation: operating apps through their visible interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when setting up SilentHand, checking its connection, attaching its MCP wrapper, or using its computer-control tools.
Why use it?
They explain how to connect the host safely and which commands and tools are valid, avoiding unsupported or unsafe ways to start it.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use them when setting up SilentHand, checking its connection, attaching its MCP wrapper, or using its computer-control tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edosulai/silenthand-cua/silenthand
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 edosulai/silenthand-cua --skill silenthand
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/edosulai/silenthand-cua

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,921 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00070 $0.04921
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.02461
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00984
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00492

Measured 8d ago against content hash be04b5831640, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

silenthand scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

(non-TTY: the CLI prompts “Enable all tools?” and cancels on EOF unless you
skills/silenthand/SKILL.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/silenthand

Unofficial research host for OpenAI Computer Use. Ready on macOS; Windows and Linux are in development. The host MCP auto-detects stdio dialect: NDJSON for Hermes Agent (mcp.client.stdio) and Content-Length for VS Code / Claude Desktop. The CUA binary also speaks NDJSON — that is a separate client, not the host server. Prefer MCP tools when they are attached. The CLI is node cli.mjs from a checkout (doctor / setup / fetch-runtime / install-skill).

This is not a published npm package. Do not npx silenthand. Do not invent WhatsApp/Telegram send/search tools. Official messages mcp (Apple Messages: find_chats / read_messages / search_messages / send_message / count_message_activity / read_image) is forwarded from the binary when it answers — do not author a HOST schema for it. Do not start ChatGPT.app or ./run-silenthand.sh unless the user asked.

On Hermes Agent, MCP tools show up two ways:

  • native prefix mcp_silenthand_*
  • desktop deferred mcp__silenthand__* (double underscore) via tool_describe / tool_call

If neither skill nor MCP is attached, tell the user to run node cli.mjs fetch-runtime (needs ChatGPT for Mac; binaries are not in git), then node cli.mjs setup from a checkout, then:

printf 'Y\n' | hermes mcp add silenthand --command /ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/silenthand-cua/mcp-wrapper.sh

(non-TTY: the CLI prompts “Enable all tools?” and cancels on EOF unless you pipe Y). Verify with both hermes mcp list and hermes config get mcp_servers.

Config persist ≠ this chat has the tools. After a successful add:

  1. setup_mcp(server='silenthand', action='enable') injects them into the current desktop session (catalog install cannot attach a local stdio wrapper).
  2. If enable is unavailable, restart Hermes / /reload-mcp.

The wrapper does not start the CUA service. First tool call: silenthand_doctor. If ready=false, explain userMessage and follow agentNextSteps. Do not start extra services unless the user asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 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 Changed · +199 lines · +10 tokens per session be04b5831640
  2. 11d ago First seen · 126 lines · 60 tokens per session scan B 58f0e970798c

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silenthand is a skill published in the GitHub repository edosulai/silenthand-cua (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 4,921 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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