electron-development

electron-development is a skill for Codex from EthanYoQ/Skill-hub. It costs 123 tokens per session (7,313 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building and packaging Electron desktop apps, which are desktop programs made with web technologies. It covers app structure, secure communication, installers, native modules, signing, and macOS release checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build Electron apps, secure process communication, configure installers, debug packaged apps, create macOS DMG or ZIP files, and set up signing or updates.
Why use it?
It brings the desktop-specific setup and safety checks into one workflow, including problems that appear only after packaging.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

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 process communication, configure installers, debug packaged apps, create macOS DMG or ZIP files, and set up signing or 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/EthanYoQ/Skill-hub
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ethanyoq/skill-hub/electron-development

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 123 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,313 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 89
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 518
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 519
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 571
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 830
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00123 $0.07313
Opus 5.5 $0.00049 $0.02925
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00731

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 841511d27115, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

archives/user-installed-skills/electron-development/c92e7a797c35600f/electron-development/SKILL.md · 875 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 875 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
  • Implementing Electron packaging configuration and validating packages locally with electron-builder or electron-forge
  • Building and qualifying Electron macOS DMG/ZIP installers on GitHub-hosted macOS runners, including mounted packaged smoke and signing/notarization disclosure
  • Implementing auto-update with electron-updater
  • Implementing or debugging Electron packaging configuration and packaged smoke tests
  • 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
  • Building or qualifying Windows installers through GitHub Actions → use github-desktop-release
  • Promoting artifacts, publishing/resuming a GitHub Release, or performing authoritative Release readback → use github-desktop-release
  • Building a non-Electron macOS desktop installer → use the relevant platform/build Skill

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 875 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago Changed · -4 lines 841511d27115
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 879 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 625d7acee4cc

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electron-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository EthanYoQ/Skill-hub (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 7,313 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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