claude-desktop-extra: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/linux/SKILL.md

linux is a skill for Claude Code from patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra. It costs 113 tokens per session (5,764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Linux compatibility reference for repackaging Claude Desktop, Anthropic’s desktop application, on Linux distributions it does not officially ship for.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modifying or testing Claude Desktop on X11 or Wayland systems, including GNOME, KDE, Sway, Hyprland, and Niri.
Why use it?
It gives maintainers the platform rules and support combinations needed to avoid breaking desktop sessions, input, screenshots, and Linux-only patches.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-desktop-extra itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-desktop-extra configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra/master/.claude/skills/linux/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,764 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 70
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00113 $0.05764
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.02306
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00576

Measured 9d ago against content hash eb1b2ac48d0a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

linux 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 9d 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/skills/linux/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Linux compatibility - claude-desktop-extra

Repackages Anthropic's official Claude Desktop Linux .deb (bundles Electron 44.4.3 as of v2.7032.0 - read the deb tree's usr/lib/claude-desktop/version for the current one - plus a native Cowork VM backend) for the distros Anthropic does not ship, patching its app.asar to add Linux value-adds (Computer Use, themes, multi-profile, Quick Entry) and Linux fixes. Linux only - never add macOS/Windows code. Minified JS identifiers change every upstream release, so patterns must use [\w$]+ wildcards anchored on stable strings (feature names, log messages, process.platform==="darwin"). For a clean unpatched bundle to test patterns against, see /fresh-upstream.

Support matrix (must validate every change against ALL rows)

Session Compositors/DEs Input backend Screenshot
X11 any (GNOME, KDE, i3, …) x11-bridge (bundled, static) x11-bridge (bundled, static)
Wayland wlroots Sway, Hyprland, Niri wlroots-bridge (bundled, static) wlroots-bridge (bundled, static)
Wayland GNOME GNOME Shell gnome-portal-bridge (bundled; portal consent, persisted GNOME 46+) gnome-portal-bridge (bundled)
Wayland KDE 6.6+ KDE Plasma kwin-portal-bridge (bundled) kwin-portal-bridge (bundled)
Wayland KDE <6.6 KDE Plasma ydotool, else x11-bridge/XWayland spectacle+convert
XWayland any Wayland x11-bridge (bundled) x11-bridge (bundled)
Wayland exotic COSMIC, Enlightenment, … ydotool (+ydotoold), else x11-bridge/XWayland desktopCapturer / COWORK_SCREENSHOT_CMD
Distro Pkg Min glibc Arch
Arch own pacman repo 2.41 x86_64, aarch64
Ubuntu 22.04+ deb 2.35 amd64, arm64
Debian 12+ deb 2.36 amd64, arm64
Fedora 40+ rpm 2.39 x86_64, aarch64
RHEL 9+ rpm 2.34 x86_64, aarch64
NixOS flake 2.40 x86_64 (the Nix package is x86_64-only)
Jetson (JetPack 6) deb 2.35 aarch64
Fedora Atomic (Bazzite, Kinoite, Silverblue) AppImage (immutable /usr; the rpm would need rpm-ostree layering, untested) 2.39+ x86_64, aarch64
Any (glibc) AppImage varies x86_64, aarch64

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 9d ago Changed eb1b2ac48d0a
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  8. 2mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 6e16562167ab

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linux is a skill published in the GitHub repository patrickjaja/claude-desktop-extra (726 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 5,764 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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