ops-desktop

ops-desktop is a skill for Claude Code from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for controlling a real computer desktop through a graphical interface, including Linux desktops and partial macOS or Windows support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to click, type, handle file pickers and multi-window tasks, or verify actions with screenshots and screen recordings.
Why use it?
It reaches native windows and system dialogs that browser automation cannot access. It also requires approval before sending outbound actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the ops plugin — 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to click, type, handle file pickers and multi-window tasks, or verify actions with screenshots and screen recordings.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops
Claude Code
/plugin install ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,100 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 $0.00027 $0.02100
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00210

Measured 10d ago against content hash 1d32c3832816, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ops-desktop 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 10d 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.

claude-ops/skills/ops-desktop/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OPS ► DESKTOP

Load ops-rules before acting. Public repo (no personal data). Outbound: one draft → one approval → one send. If AskUserQuestion / Workflow are missing, follow Rule 10 in ops-rules (Hermes: numbered options / two-turn Telegram card; delegate_task).

/ops:desktop drives a real GUI desktop (Linux noVNC pool, partial macOS / Windows support) through the desktop-act FastMCP server. Use it for tasks that browser-only automation can't reach: native dialogs, OS file pickers, multi-window flows, screen-recording verification.

The MCP tool schemas are deferred. Load them with ToolSearch on demand:

ToolSearch select:mcp__desktop-act__acquire_desktop,mcp__desktop-act__screenshot,mcp__desktop-act__click,mcp__desktop-act__type_text,mcp__desktop-act__release_desktop

Runtime Context

Before any route runs, resolve:

  1. Plugin root: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} — used to locate the launcher.
  2. MCP launcher: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/mcp-servers/desktop-act-launcher.py — auto-discovers an installed desktop-act marketplace or, if absent, clones from $DESKTOP_ACT_REPO (default https://github.com/Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/desktop-act.git) and bootstraps a venv on first run.
  3. noVNC default: http://<box-host>:6082 — primary desktop. acquire_desktop() provisions extra sessions on :6082+.
  4. Mobile / SSH mode: if $SSH_CONNECTION, $SSH_CLIENT, or $SSH_TTY is set, emit compact text-only output per Rule 7 (no banners, no tables, plain lines). The noVNC URL is the one piece the user definitely needs — print it once on a copy-able line.

Routing table

Parse $ARGUMENTS and route. First token decides:

First arg Route
(empty) / status Print MCP status, default noVNC URL, active sessions, and platform support note
list mcp__desktop-act__list_desktops — show pool state
release <id> mcp__desktop-act__release_desktop(session_id) — free a session
release-all Release every session this skill has open this turn
anything else Treat as a goal — acquire → observe → drive → verify → release

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 10d ago First seen · 206 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 1d32c3832816

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ops-desktop is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops (187 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,100 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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