computer-use

computer-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Hmbown/Codewhale. It costs 28 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

See the screen and operate it. Use when the user asks to click, type, or check something visually on this machine.

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/hmbown/codewhale/computer-use
Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/Codewhale --skill computer-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/Codewhale

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00028 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured today against content hash 4c97d0e7250b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

computer-use 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 today.

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.

plugins/computer-use/skills/computer-use/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Computer use

You can see this machine's screen and operate its mouse and keyboard through the computer MCP server. Work in a tight look-act-verify loop and never act blind.

The loop

  1. Look: call mcp_computer_screenshot first. The image arrives as a vision block; read positions from it, never guess coordinates.
  2. Act: exactly one action per turn — mcp_computer_click, mcp_computer_type_text, mcp_computer_press_key, or mcp_computer_scroll. Coordinates are pixels in the latest screenshot from the top-left, matching mcp_computer_screen_size; the server scales them to the display.
  3. Verify: screenshot again after every action that should change something visible. If the screen did not change as expected, stop and report instead of retrying harder.

Safety rules

  • Every action tool asks for approval unless the session runs in Always-approve posture. Say what you are about to click or type before the approval prompt appears.
  • Never type passwords, secrets, or one-time codes. If a login screen appears, stop and hand control back to the user.
  • Never dismiss system permission dialogs (Accessibility, Screen Recording) yourself. If the server reports a missing permission, tell the user exactly which toggle to flip and stop.
  • Prefer keyboard over mouse (Tab, arrows, Enter) — it is precise and does not depend on pixel coordinates.
  • If a tool reports unsupported_platform or missing_helper, stop and relay the server's message verbatim.
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. today First seen · 39 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 4c97d0e7250b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

computer-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/Codewhale (40,916 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 389 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 2026-09-05.