What is pythonide-automation?

A skill for writing PythonIDE automation scripts and non-game utility tools. It covers actions such as running named iOS Shortcuts, opening URLs or settings, adding editor keyboard helpers, and building scripts with legacy Pythonista-style interfaces.

Use it to trigger user-provided Shortcuts, create URL or settings handoffs, add keyboard snippets, build legacy UI scripts, and write plain Python utilities with optional iOS integration.

It helps choose the right automation surface when a task needs device or editor actions rather than a full app interface. It also keeps game scenes, widgets, and native MiniApps on their separate paths.

pythonide-automation — Skill for Claude Code by Python-IDE

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 Python-IDE/pythonide-skills --skill pythonide-automation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Python-IDE/pythonide-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 927 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00060	$0.00927
Opus 5.5	$0.00024	$0.00371
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00185
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00093

Measured 2mo ago against content hash bfc5f5b1d8ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pythonide-automation 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 2mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (examples/run_shortcut/main.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

pythonide-automation/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PythonIDE Automation

Rules for scripts and automation surfaces that are not AppUI MiniApps or widgets.

Read Before Coding

Shortcuts guide
shortcuts module
keyboard module
ui module for legacy imperative UI
Automation extension index
Load pythonide-native when the script imports iOS modules

Use When

Run an existing iOS Shortcut by name
Open URL handoff or app settings through shortcuts
Add editor keyboard buttons/snippets
Build Pythonista-compatible ui scripts
Plain Python utilities with optional native module calls
JS/extension workflows referenced in js-api

Do Not Use When

The user wants a native MiniApp with navigation and forms → pythonide-appui
The user wants a Home Screen widget → pythonide-widget
The user wants a game or frame loop → pythonide-scene
PythonIDE can solve the task with only stdlib and no iOS integration

Shortcuts Pattern

import shortcuts


def open_daily_log():
    return shortcuts.run_shortcut("Daily Log")

Shortcuts Rules

Use only Shortcut names the user provided
Call run_shortcut, open_url, or open_settings from user-triggered actions
Treat False or empty results as failure; do not claim success without evidence
Do not invent installed Shortcuts
Do not launch shortcuts at import time or from AppUI body()

Keyboard Pattern

Use keyboard module for editor buttons, groups, snippets, and cursor insertion. Keep handlers short and user-triggered.

Legacy `ui` Pattern

import ui


class DemoView(ui.View):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.frame = (0, 0, 320, 240)
        button = ui.Button(title="Tap")
        button.frame = (20, 20, 120, 40)
        button.action = self.tapped
        self.add_subview(button)

    def tapped(self, sender):
        ui.hud_alert("Tapped")


DemoView().present("sheet")

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

examples/run_shortcut/main.py 391 B runs code

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.

2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A bfc5f5b1d8ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pythonide-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Python-IDE/pythonide-skills (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 927 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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