software-desktop

software-desktop is a skill for Codex from vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public. It costs 38 tokens per session (5,686 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building desktop applications that run on Windows, macOS, or Linux using tools such as Electron, Tauri, Flutter, and .NET MAUI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when selecting a desktop app framework, designing native or cross-platform apps, or creating installers and release packages.
Why use it?
It helps developers choose a suitable desktop technology and avoid platform, security, packaging, and distribution problems.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when selecting a desktop app framework, designing native or cross-platform apps, or creating installers and release packages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/software-desktop
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 vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public --skill software-desktop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,686 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 $0.00038 $0.05686
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02843
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00569

Measured 9d ago against content hash 63e895a85912, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-desktop 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/check_signing_readiness.py, scripts/check_signing.sh), 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.

frameworks/shared-skills/skills/software-desktop/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Desktop Application Development

Build cross-platform and native desktop apps with correct architecture, security defaults, and distribution pipelines.

Quick Reference

Need Recommended Tool / Framework
Cross-platform (JS/TS) Electron — mature ecosystem, large community, Chromium-based
Cross-platform (Rust + Web) Tauri — smaller bundles, stronger security model, OS webview, also targets iOS/Android from the same codebase (stable since Tauri 2.0, Oct 2024)
Cross-platform (Dart) Flutter Desktop — shared mobile/desktop codebase; strongest on macOS, Windows/Linux slightly behind on package maturity
Cross-platform (.NET) .NET MAUI — Windows (WinUI 3 host) + macOS (Mac Catalyst) only; no native Linux desktop target as of mid-2026 (an Avalonia-powered Linux/browser backend is in preview)
Cross-platform (Kotlin) Compose Multiplatform — shared Android/desktop UI
Native macOS SwiftUI (default for new apps) + AppKit interop for advanced window/menu chrome
Native Windows WPF for mature Windows-only line-of-business apps (Microsoft ships it, but it's in maintenance mode); WinUI 3 for a modern Windows 11 look, at the cost of a thinner control/answer ecosystem
Native Linux GTK (GNOME), Qt (KDE)
Auto-update electron-updater (NSIS target) or Tauri's built-in updater; Sparkle 2 (macOS); avoid Squirrel.Windows for new work — unmaintained, superseded by NSIS
Code signing Apple notarization via notarytool; Windows Authenticode via Azure Artifact Signing (formerly "Trusted Signing") or a traditional EV/OV cert; Linux (distro-specific)
Installers electron-builder, Tauri bundler, create-dmg, Inno Setup, NSIS, AppImage/Flatpak/Snap
Tauri 2 capability system, plugin breaks, WebView2, EU Accessibility Act references/tauri-2-migration.md
Verify .app codesign + notarization scripts/check_signing.sh

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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 First seen · 311 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 63e895a85912

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software-desktop is a skill published in the GitHub repository vasilyu1983/AI-Agents-public (87 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 5,686 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-09-03.

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