rf-platynui

rf-platynui is a skill for Claude Code from manykarim/robotframework-agentskills. It costs 26 tokens per session (3,556 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for testing native desktop applications with PlatynUI in Robot Framework. It controls windows, menus, dialogs, and other desktop controls on Windows and Linux using selectors based on the desktop control tree.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for automating and troubleshooting tests for applications such as Qt, GTK, WPF, WinForms, Calculator, or Notepad.
Why use it?
It helps locate desktop controls and interact with them when a test cannot find a button, menu, or dialog. It also distinguishes native desktop testing from browser and mobile testing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rf-agentskills plugin — 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for automating and troubleshooting tests for applications such as Qt, GTK, WPF, WinForms, Calculator, or Notepad.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills/rf-platynui
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 manykarim/robotframework-agentskills --skill rf-platynui
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manykarim/robotframework-agentskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rf-agentskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,556 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 $0.00026 $0.03556
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.01422
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00711
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00356

Measured 12d ago against content hash d73b87006d8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rf-platynui 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 12d 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.

plugins/rf-agentskills/skills/rf-platynui/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PlatynUI Library Skill (new_core / BareMetal)

When to use

Load this skill first, before exploring the project or answering from memory, when a Robot Framework test drives a native desktop application with PlatynUI (Windows UIA, Linux AT-SPI2):

  • windows, dialogs, menus and controls found with XPath over the desktop tree; clicking, typing, keyboard shortcuts, reading control text;
  • platynui-cli or the inspector to build locators;
  • a desktop test cannot find a button, menu or dialog, or the user automates Calculator, Notepad or a Qt/GTK/WPF/WinForms app, even if they only say "desktop app".

Not this skill: mobile apps use rf-appium; web browsers use rf-browser or rf-selenium; installing PlatynUI pre-releases uses rf-setup.

Quick Reference

PlatynUI is cross-platform native desktop UI automation for Robot Framework. It normalizes Windows UIA, Linux AT-SPI2 (and planned macOS AX) into one desktop UI model that you query with XPath-2.0-style selectors.

⚠️ Preview / pre-release. This skill targets the new_core rewrite. The only usable keyword library today is PlatynUI.BareMetal; the high-level PlatynUI library is a not-yet-implemented placeholder. Keywords, CLI output, and behavior may change.

Installation

Install into the project environment (see rf-setup for uv/venv/Poetry, CI and troubleshooting; follow the project's existing tool):

Get the version with the right pin — this is the #1 mistake:

# ✅ new_core (PlatynUI.BareMetal, documented keywords) — pin OR opt into pre-releases:
uv add robotframework-PlatynUI==0.12.0.dev330             # verified pin   # pip: pip install robotframework-PlatynUI==0.12.0.dev330
uv add --prerelease allow robotframework-PlatynUI         # latest pre-release   # pip: pip install --pre robotframework-PlatynUI

# ❌ WRONG — installs old 0.9.2 (a different library, NO BareMetal):
uv add robotframework-PlatynUI                            # no pin, no --prerelease allow → 0.9.2

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago Changed · -7 tokens per session d73b87006d8b
  2. 18d ago First seen · 267 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4d0a4f88be28

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rf-platynui is a skill published in the GitHub repository manykarim/robotframework-agentskills (38 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 3,556 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-01.

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