systemsettings

systemsettings is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from wende/macbeth. It costs 15 tokens per session (190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for controlling macOS System Settings through its accessibility interface. It also includes optional shortcuts for opening settings panes and scripts for searching, inspecting, or clicking controls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open settings panes, search for settings, inspect the interface, and click controls by their accessible labels or patterns.
Why use it?
System Settings has no stable public automation API, and labels can vary between macOS versions and languages. The guidance helps locate controls while avoiding unsafe multi-step actions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to open settings panes, search for settings, inspect the interface, and click controls by their accessible labels or patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wende/macbeth/systemsettings
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 wende/macbeth --skill systemsettings
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wende/macbeth

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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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 190 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00190
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00076
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00019

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7bda706c66f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systemsettings 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (scripts/click-control.mjs, scripts/dump-ui.mjs, scripts/open-pane.mjs, …), 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.

skills/SystemSettings/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

System Settings Automation

Connect

connect_app({ name: "System Settings" })

Backends

  • Primary: Accessibility automation only (no stable public API)
  • Optional helper: URL scheme (x-apple.systempreferences:) to jump to panes

Runnable Scripts

  • open-pane.mjs — open a settings pane by identifier
  • search-setting.mjs — type into the Settings search field
  • click-control.mjs — click controls by role/title or pattern
  • dump-ui.mjs — inspect current AX tree for locator discovery

Gotchas

  1. AX labels differ by macOS version and system language.
  2. Pane identifiers are not validated by the script; invalid IDs open the app root.
  3. For safety, scripts avoid multi-step destructive interactions.
Files

What ships with it

4 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. 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 7bda706c66f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systemsettings is a skill published in the GitHub repository wende/macbeth (4 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 190 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 2026-08-31.

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