computer-use

computer-use is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant. It costs 7 tokens per session (463 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of actions for controlling a connected desktop computer. The actions are forwarded to the desktop client rather than run directly by the assistant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to control a connected desktop through supported computer actions.
Why use it?
It lets the assistant interact with a computer that has been connected to it. This is useful when a task requires operating a desktop rather than only handling text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to control a connected desktop through supported computer actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/computer-use
About the project

Vellum Assistant is a personal AI assistant that remembers information about users, learns their preferences, and takes actions across connected apps. It is intended for people who want an assistant that can manage conversations, unfinished work, and proactive notifications over time. The catalogue skills, hooks, instruction, and setting configure or extend how the assistant works.

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,204 stars · on GitHub · vellum.ai

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 vellum-ai/vellum-assistant --skill computer-use
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vellum-ai/vellum-assistant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 7 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00007 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash b2dc092dca6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

computer-use 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 11 executable files (tools/computer-use-click.ts, tools/computer-use-done.ts, tools/computer-use-drag.ts, …), 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.

assistant/src/config/bundled-skills/computer-use/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

This skill provides the computer_use_* action tools for controlling a connected desktop. CU tools run through the main agent loop via HostCuProxy.

The skill is internally preactivated for conversations with a connected desktop client.

Tools in this skill are proxy tools. Execution is forwarded to a connected desktop client and is never handled locally by the assistant.

Window-scoped observation (macOS)

computer_use_observe accepts optional capture_window_id, a native macOS CGWindowID (not a browser tab ID or accessibility element ID). Obtain the ID from a current native window inventory before using it; never guess one. The native helper captures that window and its accessibility tree without including secondary windows, even when another app covers the selected window. A missing window must not be replaced with a desktop capture.

This is a single observation, not a session-wide privacy boundary: normal click/type/scroll and other action tools still return their normal desktop observations. Do not promise app-only capture for a whole control session. The desktop must explicitly advertise host_cu_window_capture support on its connection; the daemon rejects older or unsupported clients before requesting any capture. Other desktop platforms reject this option.

The screenshot is window-relative, while action coordinates are screen points; do not scale it using full-display dimensions. Prefer accessibility element IDs and ensure the intended window is focused before a later action. Window-scoped observation does not focus the window or confine subsequent input to that app.

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. yesterday Changed · +21 lines b2dc092dca6f
  2. 8d ago First seen · 25 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A 0389441d5383

Subscribe to this mod's changes

computer-use is a skill published in the GitHub repository vellum-ai/vellum-assistant (1,204 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 463 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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