Desktop Act

Desktop Act is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux. It costs 14 tokens per session (37 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A desktop-automation skill for clicking and typing in Linux applications. It can use a screenshot and accessibility information to find controls such as a Save button.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks such as saving a document in a Linux desktop app and entering a title.
Why use it?
It helps an agent work with graphical Linux programs when the task cannot be completed through text commands alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

codex-desktop is an unofficial, community-maintained Linux distribution of OpenAI’s ChatGPT desktop application, packaged for several Linux formats and desktop environments. Linux users install it to access Chat, Work, and Codex through a desktop app built from the signed upstream Linux payload. Its catalogue skills, agents, instructions, and MCP integration extend workflows around the application.

ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux · 3,744 stars · on GitHub

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/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux/desktop-act
Any agent
npx skills add ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux --skill desktop-act
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux

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 Desktop Act

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux/desktop-act"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux/desktop-act.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 37 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 $0.00014 $0.00037
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00018
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00007
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00004

Measured 5d ago against content hash dd6fc5afbc15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Desktop Act 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.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

record-replay-linux/tests/fixtures/skills/desktop-act/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

Take a screenshot, inspect accessibility, click the Save button, then type the title.

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 · 7 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A dd6fc5afbc15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Desktop Act is a skill published in the GitHub repository ilysenko/codex-desktop-linux (3,744 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 37 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.

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