computer

A macOS desktop-control guide using the `usecomputer` command-line tool. It can work with the mouse, keyboard, windows, displays, screenshots, and clipboard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Take screenshots, find windows or displays, click, type, press keys, scroll, drag, and copy or paste while checking the result.
Why use it?
It provides a way to inspect and operate desktop applications when browser or code-based controls are not enough.

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/gettalon/talon-plugins/computer
Any agent
npx skills add gettalon/talon-plugins --skill computer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gettalon/talon-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,842 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00040 $0.01842
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00921
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00184

Measured 2d ago against content hash 47972dddb6cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

computer 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 2d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to talon-computer — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/talon/skills/computer/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Computer Use

Control the macOS desktop using the usecomputer CLI. 17 commands for mouse, keyboard, screenshots, windows, displays, clipboard, and coordinate mapping.

Setup

npm install -g usecomputer

Requirements: macOS, Accessibility permissions enabled for your terminal, Node.js 18+.

Core Workflow

  1. Screenshot → see what's on screen
  2. Analyze → find the target coordinates
  3. Act → click, type, or press keys (use --coord-map from screenshot)
  4. Verify → screenshot again to confirm

Commands (17 total)

Screenshot

usecomputer screenshot /tmp/screen.png --json
usecomputer screenshot /tmp/region.png --region 0,0,800,600 --json
usecomputer screenshot /tmp/win.png --window 1234 --json
usecomputer screenshot /tmp/screen.png --display 1 --json
usecomputer screenshot /tmp/annotated.png --annotate --json

Options: --region x,y,w,h, --display N, --window ID, --annotate, --json Returns JSON: path, coordMap, desktopIndex, imageWidth, imageHeight, hint

Always pass --coord-map from screenshot output when clicking/hovering/dragging.

Click

usecomputer click -x 500 -y 300 --coord-map "0,0,1792,1120,1568,980"
usecomputer click -x 500 -y 300 --button right --coord-map "..."
usecomputer click -x 500 -y 300 --count 2 --coord-map "..."
usecomputer click -x 500 -y 300 --modifiers ctrl,shift --coord-map "..."

Options: --button left|right|middle, --count N, --modifiers ctrl,shift,alt,meta, --coord-map

Hover — Move cursor without clicking

usecomputer hover -x 500 -y 300 --coord-map "..."

Mouse Move

usecomputer mouse move -x 500 -y 300 --coord-map "..."

Mouse Down / Up — Press and hold / release

usecomputer mouse down --button left
usecomputer mouse up --button left

Options: --button left|right|middle

Mouse Position

usecomputer mouse position --json

Type

usecomputer type "Hello world"
usecomputer type "slow text" --delay 20
cat file.txt | usecomputer type --stdin --chunk-size 4000 --chunk-delay 15
usecomputer type "limited" --max-length 1000

Options: --delay ms, --stdin, --chunk-size N, --chunk-delay ms, --max-length N

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 2d ago First seen · 221 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 47972dddb6cd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

computer is a skill published in the GitHub repository gettalon/talon-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,842 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to talon-computer, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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