screenshot

screenshot is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tercumantanumut/selene. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,966 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of screenshot, MIT.

A guide for taking screenshots of a computer screen, an app window, or a selected area. It also explains where to save the screenshot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture a full desktop, a particular window, an app, or a defined region of the screen.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent way to capture desktop content when a more specific tool cannot do it. On macOS, it helps check the permissions needed for screen capture.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to capture a full desktop, a particular window, an app, or a defined region of the screen.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tercumantanumut/selene/screenshot
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 tercumantanumut/selene --skill screenshot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tercumantanumut/selene

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,966 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.01966
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00197

Measured 12d ago against content hash ad6f21849620, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

screenshot 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh, scripts/take_screenshot.ps1, scripts/take_screenshot.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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to screenshot — 50 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

lib/skills/catalog/bundled/screenshot/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Screenshot Capture

Follow these save-location rules every time:

  1. If the user specifies a path, save there.
  2. If the user asks for a screenshot without a path, save to the OS default screenshot location.
  3. If Codex needs a screenshot for its own inspection, save to the temp directory.

Tool priority

  • Prefer tool-specific screenshot capabilities when available (for example: a Figma MCP/skill for Figma files, or Playwright/agent-browser tools for browsers and Electron apps).
  • Use this skill when explicitly asked, for whole-system desktop captures, or when a tool-specific capture cannot get what you need.
  • Otherwise, treat this skill as the default for desktop apps without a better-integrated capture tool.

macOS permission preflight (reduce repeated prompts)

On macOS, run the preflight helper once before window/app capture. It checks Screen Recording permission, explains why it is needed, and requests it in one place.

The helpers route Swift's module cache to $TMPDIR/codex-swift-module-cache to avoid extra sandbox module-cache prompts.

bash ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh

To avoid multiple sandbox approval prompts, combine preflight + capture in one command when possible:

bash ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh && \
python3 ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/take_screenshot.py --app "Codex"

For Codex inspection runs, keep the output in temp:

bash ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/ensure_macos_permissions.sh && \
python3 ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/take_screenshot.py --app "<App>" --mode temp

Use the bundled scripts to avoid re-deriving OS-specific commands.

macOS and Linux (Python helper)

Run the helper from the repo root:

python3 ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/take_screenshot.py

Common patterns:

  • Default location (user asked for "a screenshot"):
python3 ${SELENE_SKILL_ROOT}/scripts/take_screenshot.py
  • Temp location (Codex visual check):

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 First seen · 268 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ad6f21849620

Subscribe to this mod's changes

screenshot is a skill published in the GitHub repository tercumantanumut/selene (168 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,966 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to screenshot, differing in 50 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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