desktop_automation

desktop_automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot. It costs 15 tokens per session (274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS guide for taking screenshots and performing simple interactions with desktop windows and the clipboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture screen evidence, select a region or window, copy a screenshot to the clipboard, and check display resolution.
Why use it?
It provides the commands and file locations needed to capture the whole screen, a selected area, a window, or a silent image.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to capture screen evidence, select a region or window, copy a screenshot to the clipboard, and check display resolution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot/desktop_automation
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 frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot --skill desktop_automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 274 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 $0.00015 $0.00274
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 11d ago against content hash cf17cfb2c544, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

desktop_automation 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 11d 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/desktop_automation/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Desktop automation (macOS)

Use shell commands for screenshots and simple desktop actions.

Screenshots

Full screen:

screencapture ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

Interactive region:

screencapture -i ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

Interactive window:

screencapture -w ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

Silent (no shutter sound):

screencapture -x ~/Desktop/screenshot.png

Clipboard

Copy capture to clipboard:

screencapture -c

Display info

Resolution hint:

system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType | grep Resolution

Rules

  1. Default save path ~/Desktop/ unless the user specifies another path.
  2. Use -x to suppress shutter sound when appropriate.
  3. After capture, verify with ls -la <path>.
  4. If the user asks for a “photo” of the screen, they mean a screenshot.
  5. Default format: .png.
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. 11d ago First seen · 62 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A cf17cfb2c544

Subscribe to this mod's changes

desktop_automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository frontier-ai-next/mgarlbot (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 274 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.