screenshot

screenshot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hipson47/Hipson. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of screenshot, Apache-2.0.

A helper for capturing screenshots of a computer screen, a selected app or window, or a specific screen area. It follows platform rules for where screenshots are saved and handles macOS capture permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture the whole screen, one application window, or a selected region for documentation, debugging, or review.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to capture desktop content when a browser or app does not offer its own screenshot function.

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/hipson47/hipson/screenshot
Any agent
npx skills add Hipson47/Hipson --skill screenshot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hipson47/Hipson

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for screenshot

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hipson47/hipson/screenshot.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hipson47/hipson/screenshot)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hipson47/hipson/screenshot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hipson47/hipson/screenshot.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00045 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00194

Measured 5d ago against content hash 081935a6a163, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screenshot 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh, scripts/take_screenshot.ps1, scripts/take_screenshot.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

100% identical to screenshot — 0 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.

skills/external/openai-curated/screenshot/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screenshot Capture

Follow these save-location rules every time:

  1. If the user specifies a path, save there.
  2. If the user asks for a screenshot without a path, save to the OS default screenshot location.
  3. If Codex needs a screenshot for its own inspection, save to the temp directory.

Tool priority

  • Prefer tool-specific screenshot capabilities when available (for example: a Figma MCP/skill for Figma files, or Playwright/agent-browser tools for browsers and Electron apps).
  • Use this skill when explicitly asked, for whole-system desktop captures, or when a tool-specific capture cannot get what you need.
  • Otherwise, treat this skill as the default for desktop apps without a better-integrated capture tool.

macOS permission preflight (reduce repeated prompts)

On macOS, run the preflight helper once before window/app capture. It checks Screen Recording permission, explains why it is needed, and requests it in one place.

The helpers route Swift's module cache to $TMPDIR/codex-swift-module-cache to avoid extra sandbox module-cache prompts.

bash <path-to-skill>/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh

To avoid multiple sandbox approval prompts, combine preflight + capture in one command when possible:

bash <path-to-skill>/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh && \
python3 <path-to-skill>/scripts/take_screenshot.py --app "Codex"

For Codex inspection runs, keep the output in temp:

bash <path-to-skill>/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh && \
python3 <path-to-skill>/scripts/take_screenshot.py --app "<App>" --mode temp

Use the bundled scripts to avoid re-deriving OS-specific commands.

macOS and Linux (Python helper)

Run the helper from the repo root:

python3 <path-to-skill>/scripts/take_screenshot.py

Common patterns:

  • Default location (user asked for "a screenshot"):
python3 <path-to-skill>/scripts/take_screenshot.py
  • Temp location (Codex visual check):
python3 <path-to-skill>/scripts/take_screenshot.py --mode temp

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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. 5d ago First seen · 268 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 081935a6a163

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screenshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hipson47/Hipson (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to screenshot, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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