automate-app

automate-app is a skill for Claude Code from manushi4/Screenhand. It costs 88 tokens per session (2,185 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A skill for controlling desktop applications on macOS or Windows through their visible interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open apps, click controls, fill forms, navigate menus, read interface content, type text, drag items, and automate desktop tasks.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual clicking and typing when working in another application. It can interact with apps by their name or internal identifier.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the screenhand plugin — 13 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to open apps, click controls, fill forms, navigate menus, read interface content, type text, drag items, and automate desktop tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manushi4/screenhand/automate-app
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 manushi4/Screenhand --skill automate-app
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manushi4/Screenhand

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install screenhand, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 5 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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 automate-app

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,185 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 unknown 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 $0.00088 $0.02185
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01092
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00218

Measured 7d ago against content hash ac442fe5967d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automate-app 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.

.claude/plugins/screenhand/skills/automate-app/SKILL.md · 175 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 175 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A ac442fe5967d

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automate-app is a skill published in the GitHub repository manushi4/Screenhand (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 2,185 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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