open-computer-use

open-computer-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iFurySt/open-codex-computer-use. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,230 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for installing, checking, configuring, and operating Open Computer Use, an open-source tool that lets an agent control a computer through its screen and apps on macOS, Linux, or Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the tool, verify the runtime, fix setup problems, configure its command-line or MCP connection, and perform actions such as clicking, typing, scrolling, dragging, and pressing keys.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to set up and troubleshoot computer control across operating systems, including checking required permissions and available apps.

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/ifuryst/open-codex-computer-use/open-computer-use
Any agent
npx skills add iFurySt/open-codex-computer-use --skill open-computer-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iFurySt/open-codex-computer-use

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,230 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 $0.00068 $0.01230
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00615
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00123

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3f9521ebfa03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

open-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 4d 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/open-computer-use/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Open Computer Use

Overview

Open Computer Use exposes Computer Use as a local CLI and stdio MCP server. It is not Codex.app-specific; adapt the commands and MCP config to the agent runtime you are operating in.

The macOS runtime requires macOS 14.0 or later. Windows and Linux use their own platform runtimes and are not subject to this macOS minimum.

It supports the same core tool surface across macOS, Linux, and Windows: list_apps, get_app_state, click, perform_secondary_action, scroll, drag, type_text, press_key, and set_value.

Core Workflow

  1. On macOS, run sw_vers -productVersion before invoking the CLI and require macOS 14.0 or later. On older versions, explain that the runtime cannot launch; do not recommend doctor or permission changes as a fix for binary incompatibility.
  2. Check the CLI is installed with open-computer-use -h or ocu -h. If installation or setup is missing, read references/installation.md.
  3. On supported macOS versions, run open-computer-use doctor before the first real GUI task. If permissions are missing, ask the user to approve Accessibility and Screen Recording in the onboarding UI.
  4. Inspect available apps before acting: open-computer-use call list_apps.
  5. Capture current UI state with open-computer-use call get_app_state --args '{"app":"TextEdit"}'. The default state is usually enough for UI operation.
  6. When the task needs longer semantic text, such as chat history, email bodies, document text, or long form content, call get_app_state with text_limit: 1000 or text_limit: "max".
  7. When visible long pages or lists appear incomplete even after scrolling, call get_app_state with a larger max_tree_nodes or max_tree_depth.
  8. Prefer element-targeted actions using element_index from the latest get_app_state result.
  9. For multi-step CLI work, use open-computer-use call --calls '<json-array>' so one process can reuse the latest element index mapping.
  10. For agent runtimes that support local MCP servers, configure open-computer-use mcp or ocu mcp and call the exposed Computer Use tools directly. Read references/usage.md.
  11. If communication, permission, or desktop-session access fails, read references/troubleshooting.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 84 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 3f9521ebfa03

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open-computer-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository iFurySt/open-codex-computer-use (1,893 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,230 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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