windows-appshot

windows-appshot is a skill for Codex from josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex. It costs 50 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating Windows appshot bundles: captured screenshots, visible interface text, metadata, and a prompt file. Windows is Microsoft's desktop operating system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a selected application or browser tab, including cases where the target is found by its window or tab name.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable record of what a Windows application window showed at a particular moment.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions Codex; $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to capture a selected application or browser tab, including cases where the target is found by its window or tab name.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex/windows-appshot
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.

Any agent
npx skills add josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex --skill windows-appshot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 829 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00050 $0.00829
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 7d ago against content hash 301f8a3ddf13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-appshot 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 7d 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/windows-appshot/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Windows Appshot

Use this skill when the user invokes the Windows Appshot plugin or when working with Windows appshot bundles generated by it.

Capture

Users normally invoke this as a Codex plugin command:

$windows-appshot create a Windows appshot
$windows-appshot capture Edge Gmail tab

Resolve <plugin-root> as two directories above this SKILL.md file: skills/windows-appshot/SKILL.md -> plugin root -> scripts/.

When the user asks to create a new appshot without a target query, run:

& "<plugin-root>\scripts\New-Appshot.ps1"

The user has a short delay to focus the target app window. For hotkey capture, use:

& "<plugin-root>\scripts\Start-AppshotHotkey.ps1"

If the user includes a target query, pass it positionally:

& "<plugin-root>\scripts\New-Appshot.ps1" Edge Gmail tab

Query mode searches visible windows by process, title, and class name. It also inspects browser tab names from Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Brave when available. Let the script ask for confirmation when matches are ambiguous or when a browser tab would be activated. Use -NoWindowConfirmation only for tests or trusted automation where the target is intentionally preselected.

Query captures verify the selected window is foreground before screenshot capture. Browser tab captures also verify selected-tab state through UI Automation when available or a strong active-title match.

For non-interactive Codex execution, prefer listing matches first and then selecting an explicit index:

& "<plugin-root>\scripts\New-Appshot.ps1" Edge Gmail tab -ListWindows
& "<plugin-root>\scripts\New-Appshot.ps1" Edge Gmail tab -TargetIndex 1 -NoWindowConfirmation

For regular window matches, -TargetIndex is an explicit selection after listing. For browser tab matches, it still requires -NoWindowConfirmation because tab activation can change app state.

Do not edit Codex session files directly. Use supported Codex inputs such as --image, codex exec resume --last --image, or explicit file references to the generated bundle. The default command target is NewThread; ResumeLastExec must be explicit because it can send captured context to the wrong latest exec session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 7d ago First seen · 74 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 301f8a3ddf13

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windows-appshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository josephbartlett/windows-appshot-codex (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 829 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 2026-08-31.

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