gui-agent

gui-agent is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from THU-SAGE/syll. It costs 13 tokens per session (697 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for controlling desktop applications through screenshots and automated mouse-and-keyboard actions. It repeatedly observes the screen, chooses an action, performs it, and checks the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open applications, click controls, type text, scroll, and complete other GUI workflows. It can also help with tasks that require repeated visual verification.
Why use it?
It helps complete tasks in applications that do not offer a direct programming interface. Screen checks and safety rules reduce the chance of acting on an unexpected state.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to open applications, click controls, type text, scroll, and complete other GUI workflows. It can also help with tasks that require repeated visual verification.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent
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 THU-SAGE/syll --skill gui-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/THU-SAGE/syll

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.

agentmods badge for gui-agent

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for gui-agent

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thu-sage/syll/gui-agent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 697 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00013 $0.00697
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00279
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00070

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 1e223833066a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gui-agent 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.

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.

syll/skills/gui-agent/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GUI Agent

You can interact with desktop applications using the gui_action tool.

How It Works

  1. The tool captures a screenshot of the current screen
  2. Sends it to the UI-TARS vision model for analysis
  3. UI-TARS returns a thought + action (click, type, scroll, etc.)
  4. The action is executed via pyautogui
  5. Steps repeat until the task is complete or max steps reached

Usage Protocol

When the user asks you to perform a GUI task:

  1. Understand the goal - Break the task into clear steps
  2. Call gui_action with a clear instruction
  3. Review the result - Check the returned screenshot and status
  4. Iterate if needed - Call again with refined instructions

Example

User: "Open Chrome and search for 'Syll'"

You should call:

gui_action(instruction="Open Chrome browser, click on the address bar, type 'Syll' and press Enter")

Safety Rules

  1. Never perform destructive actions without user confirmation:

    • Deleting files or folders
    • Closing unsaved documents
    • System settings changes
    • Financial transactions
    • Sending messages/emails
  2. Always verify the current screen state before acting

  3. Stop immediately if the screen shows unexpected content (login pages with sensitive data, etc.)

  4. Report clearly what actions were taken and their results

Supported Actions

Action Description Example
click Left click at position click(point='<point>500 300</point>')
right_click Right click right_click(point='<point>500 300</point>')
double_click Double click double_click(point='<point>500 300</point>')
drag Drag from A to B drag(start='<point>100 100</point>', end='<point>200 200</point>')
type Type text type(content='hello world')
hotkey Key combination hotkey(key='ctrl+c')
scroll Scroll up/down scroll(point='<point>500 300</point>', direction='down', amount=3)
wait Pause wait(seconds=2)
finished Task complete finished(content='Done')

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 2mo ago First seen · 86 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 1e223833066a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gui-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository THU-SAGE/syll (304 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 697 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 2026-08-30.

Related

gui-agent compared with skills from other repositories

gui-agent next to 6 skills from other repositories
ModTypeStarsLast pushLicenceScanTokensWorks with
gui-agentTHU-SAGE/syllSkill3045mo agoMITA13Claude Code, Codex
interactive-loginyc-software/qmSkill16kyesterdayMITA46Claude Code, Codex
pinchtab-mcppinchtab/pinchtabSkill11k10d agoMITA52Claude Code, Codex
azure-messaging-webpubsub-javamicrosoft/skillsSkill3.2kyesterdayMITA43Claude Code
cua-driverdavidondrej/skillsSkill4.3k3d agoMITA68Claude Code, Codex
open-design-browsercompozy/compozySkill2.8kyesterdayMITA56Claude Code, Codex
southwestborski/travel-hacking-toolkitSkill895yesterdayMITA40Claude Code