Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence.

MITAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Control UI

skills CLI
$ npx skills add AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config --skill control-ui -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config control-ui --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/development/control-ui .claude/skills/control-ui && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
control-ui
GitHub stars
154
Token cost
~757 tokens
SKILL.md length
374 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
50
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence.

  • Works in 7 steps: Read the project's documented start… → Discover existing browser tests and… → Select the target page by a positive… → …
  • Accessibility snapshots
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Evidence and privacy, Gotchas and Troubleshooting, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Control UI is an agent skill from AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config. Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence. Use for UI regressions, screenshots, accessibility snapshots, visual diffs, focus, keyboard, scrolling, resize, console, network, performance, or heap checks. Do not use for backend-only changes or for a screenshot without a behavior claim.

Its SKILL.md is about 760 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Visual regression testing and Accessibility. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code, Codex, and multi-agent configuration system: principles, hooks, skills, and workflow patterns for AI-assisted development. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Accessibility snapshots
  • Backend-only changes
  • For a screenshot without a behavior claim

Example prompts

  • “/control-ui”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Read the project's documented start command and identify the local URL or
  2. Discover existing browser tests and stable app markers.
  3. Select the target page by a positive root marker, role, label, or stable
  4. Capture the initial DOM/accessibility snapshot, screenshot, console state,
  5. Perform one structural action: click, type, keypress, drag, scroll, navigate,
  6. Capture the new state and assert the expected change.
  7. Clean up the dev server, debug session, temporary profile, and artifacts.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 67709af. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Control UI loads about 757 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 87 tokens; SKILL.md has 374 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~87
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~757

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config at commit 67709af, republished under its MIT licence (© AnastasiyaW). 374 words, ~757 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/control-ui/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
control-ui
description
Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence. Use for UI regressions, screenshots, accessibility snapshots, visual diffs, focus, keyboard, scrolling, resize, console, network, performance, or heap checks. Do not use for backend-only changes or for a screenshot without a behavior claim.

Control UI

Verify UI behavior at the real browser or Electron boundary. Reuse the project's Playwright, Cypress, browser, or Electron harness before creating a probe. Keep the data local and disposable.

Workflow

  1. Read the project's documented start command and identify the local URL or debug port.
  2. Discover existing browser tests and stable app markers.
  3. Select the target page by a positive root marker, role, label, or stable data-* attribute, not tab order or coordinates.
  4. Capture the initial DOM/accessibility snapshot, screenshot, console state, or network baseline relevant to the claim.
  5. Perform one structural action: click, type, keypress, drag, scroll, navigate, or resize.
  6. Capture the new state and assert the expected change.
  7. Clean up the dev server, debug session, temporary profile, and artifacts.

Use verify-this for before/after claims. Use raw CDP only when higher-level APIs cannot provide the required CPU, heap, trace, network, or rendering signal. Do not install Playwright just for a one-off probe when an existing browser tool or dependency is available.

Evidence and privacy

Screenshots, traces, network bodies, and heap snapshots may contain private code or user data. Keep them outside public Git unless they are explicitly sanitized and approved. A public report should contain the command, revision, safe metric, and artifact hash or private location, not the payload.

Show full SKILL.md (157 more words)Show less

Gotchas

  • A screenshot without an assertion proves that rendering occurred, not that the workflow is correct.
  • Coordinates and stale locators are fragile after navigation or layout change; select from the latest structure.
  • A successful page load does not prove console, network, accessibility, or keyboard behavior.
  • A visual diff can be caused by viewport, font, locale, or reduced-motion differences; record those inputs before interpreting it.

Troubleshooting

SymptomLikely causeAction
Wrong tab or windowSelector relied on tab orderEnumerate pages and choose a positive app marker
Click changes nothingStale locator or wrong stateCapture a fresh snapshot and wait for the state marker
Screenshot differs only on one machineFonts, viewport, scale, or locale driftPin the test inputs and classify as INCONCLUSIVE until comparable
Browser remains after the runCleanup path missed an exceptionUse a bounded cleanup step and verify the process/profile is gone

Source

Adapted from Cursor Team Kit's MIT-licensed control-ui workflow: https://github.com/cursor/plugins/tree/main/cursor-team-kit/skills/control-ui

© AnastasiyaW, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/development/control-ui of AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 67709af

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Control UI next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Control UI this skillAnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config154—~757Automated safety check: PassMIT
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Vrtmarigold-ui/marigold146—~787Automated safety check: PassMIT
Control UIcursor/plugins11k2 repos~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassNone
UI Visual DebuggingNangoHQ/nango13k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Browser QAaffaan-m/ECC276k2 repos~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Control UI

What does Control UI do?

Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence. Control UI is an agent skill from AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config. Drive and inspect a local web, IDE, or Electron UI with browser or CDP automation and evidence.

When should I use Control UI?

Control UI fits situations like: accessibility snapshots; backend-only changes; for a screenshot without a behavior claim.

How do I install Control UI in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config --skill control-ui -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/development/control-ui in AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config) into .claude/skills/control-ui in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Control UI in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config --skill control-ui -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/development/control-ui in AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config) into .agents/skills/control-ui in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Control UI in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config --skill control-ui -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/control-ui, .gemini/skills/control-ui, .github/skills/control-ui and .opencode/skills/control-ui in your project.

What does Control UI need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Control UI is instructions for the agent only.

Does Control UI access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Control UI safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Control UI use?

Control UI is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Control UI use?

About 757 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Control UI?

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Who maintains Control UI?

AnastasiyaW (a GitHub user) maintains it in AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config, which has 154 GitHub stars. The repository holds 50 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: AnastasiyaW/codex-claude-code-config on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.