What is setup-agent-desktop?

A setup guide for installing the agent-desktop command-line tool on macOS and granting it accessibility access.

Use it when agent-desktop is missing, reports that its native program was not found, or needs initial setup.

It handles installation problems caused by the tool’s downloaded native program and additional supply-chain checks.

setup-agent-desktop — Skill for Claude Code by ericboehs

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 ericboehs/claude-plugins --skill setup-agent-desktop

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericboehs/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-desktop-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 988 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00052	$0.00988
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00395
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00198
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00099

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 94ee7bc08251, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-agent-desktop 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 2mo 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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

If this returns a tree with refs, it's working; suggest `/agent-desktop`. Clean up: `rm -rf /tmp/ad-trusted`.

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/agent-desktop-setup/skills/setup-agent-desktop/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup agent-desktop CLI

Install the agent-desktop CLI (lahfir/agent-desktop) and grant permissions. Eric's environment has two supply-chain gates that block the normal install; this skill works through both.

Step 1: Check if already installed

which agent-desktop && agent-desktop version && agent-desktop status

If version prints JSON and status shows accessibility: granted, it's set up; suggest /agent-desktop.
If "Native binary not found": the wrapper installed but the build step was skipped; go to Step 3 (approve build).
If "command not found": install from scratch, Step 2.

Step 2: Verify a trusted binary, then install via aube

agent-desktop (npm) is a thin JS wrapper; its postinstall downloads the platform binary from GitHub Releases (SHA-256 only, no Sigstore). We verify it ourselves first, then hand it to the postinstall so no unreviewed network fetch runs.

VER=$(gh release view --repo lahfir/agent-desktop --json tagName --jq '.tagName' | tr -d v)
mkdir -p /tmp/ad-trusted && cd /tmp/ad-trusted
gh release download "v$VER" --repo lahfir/agent-desktop \
  --pattern "agent-desktop-v$VER-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz" --pattern checksums.txt --clobber
grep aarch64-apple-darwin checksums.txt | grep -v ffi > my.sum
shasum -a 256 -c my.sum                                            # must say OK
gh attestation verify "agent-desktop-v$VER-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz" --repo lahfir/agent-desktop  # Sigstore
tar -xzf "agent-desktop-v$VER-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz" && chmod +x agent-desktop

Install globally with aube (Eric's Node package manager). Two gates fire:

Low-download guard (ERR_AUBE_LOW_DOWNLOAD_PACKAGE, ~800/wk < 1000) → --allow-low-downloads.
Build-script skip → approve-builds + rebuild below.

export AGENT_DESKTOP_BINARY_PATH=/tmp/ad-trusted/agent-desktop
aube add -g agent-desktop --allow-low-downloads

Step 3: Approve and run the build script

export AGENT_DESKTOP_BINARY_PATH=/tmp/ad-trusted/agent-desktop   # set if a new shell
aube approve-builds -g agent-desktop                              # name the pkg to skip the picker
# approve-builds prints the global dir, e.g. ~/.local/share/aube/global-aube/<hash>
aube -C <global-dir> rebuild                                      # runs postinstall; copies our binary, no download
hash -r

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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.

2mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 52 tokens per session scan B 94ee7bc08251

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-agent-desktop is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericboehs/claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 988 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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