Agent skill

Electron Live Test

Live-test any Electron desktop app with native-devtools-mcp, Chrome DevTools Protocol, screenshots, OCR, and accessibility tools.

No licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Electron Live Test

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test --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/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .claude/skills/electron-live-test && 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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .claude/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .agents/skills/electron-live-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .agents/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .cursor/skills/electron-live-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .cursor/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git --path skills/electron/electron-live-test

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .gemini/skills/electron-live-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .gemini/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .github/skills/electron-live-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .github/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install instructa/agent-skills electron-live-test --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/electron/electron-live-test .opencode/skills/electron-live-test && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "electron-live-test" agent skill from https://github.com/instructa/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/electron/electron-live-test into .opencode/skills/electron-live-test/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "electron-live-test", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: electron-live-test
GitHub stars: 139
Token cost: ~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length: 618 words
Files: 4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo: 17
Repo updated: Sep 28, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: None found

At a glance

Live-test any Electron desktop app with native-devtools-mcp, Chrome DevTools Protocol, screenshots, OCR, and accessibility tools.

Works in 9 steps: Confirm native-devtools-mcp is connected. → Confirm the Electron app is running and… → Confirm the app exposes CDP on the… → …
The user asks for Electron UI verification
SKILL.md covers When To Use, Requirements, MCP Setup and Starting The App, plus 5 more sections
Calls npx, curl and sh

What it does

Electron Live Test is an agent skill from instructa/agent-skills. Live-test any Electron desktop app with native-devtools-mcp, Chrome DevTools Protocol, screenshots, OCR, and accessibility tools. Use when the user asks for Electron UI verification, MCP-driven app control, renderer CDP interaction, native desktop automation, screenshots, or OCR-driven checks.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `README.md`, `agents/openai.yaml` and `references/cdp-targeting.md`).

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Browser testing, Desktop control and Mobile testing and debugging. It works with Chrome DevTools and Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: A curated collection of agent-skills.

When your agent uses it

The user asks for Electron UI verification
MCP-driven app control
Renderer CDP interaction
Native desktop automation

Example prompts

“/electron-live-test”

Requirements

Node.js

Workflow steps

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

Confirm native-devtools-mcp is connected.
Confirm the Electron app is running and headed.
Confirm the app exposes CDP on the expected 127.0.0.1: endpoint.
Inspect /json/list and select the existing renderer target.
Take a fresh DOM snapshot before interacting.
Perform one deliberate action at a time.
After clicks, typing, navigation, waits, or anything that can change the page, take a fresh snapshot before the next structural action.
For canvas or native-window interactions, take a screenshot first and explain any coordinate-based action.
Stop and report blockers such as login, missing app window, missing CDP port, missing permissions, unexpected dialogs, wrong target, or…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d49c149. 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
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- npx
- curl
- sh
- pnpm
- npm
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npx, curl, pnpm and npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
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

Electron Live Test loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 618 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them: ~1.6k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 618 words (~1,272 tokens).

“Use this skill for live, headed testing of a running Electron desktop app. It is for interactive verification while developing, not for replacing automated smoke tests.”

— opening of SKILL.md by instructa

name: electron-live-test

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/electron/electron-live-test of instructa/agent-skills.

SKILL.md
README.md
agents/openai.yaml
references/cdp-targeting.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d49c149

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Questions about Electron Live Test

What does Electron Live Test do?

Live-test any Electron desktop app with native-devtools-mcp, Chrome DevTools Protocol, screenshots, OCR, and accessibility tools. Electron Live Test is an agent skill from instructa/agent-skills. Live-test any Electron desktop app with native-devtools-mcp, Chrome DevTools Protocol, screenshots, OCR, and accessibility tools.

When should I use Electron Live Test?

Electron Live Test fits situations like: the user asks for Electron UI verification; MCP-driven app control; renderer CDP interaction; native desktop automation.

How do I install Electron Live Test in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/electron/electron-live-test in instructa/agent-skills) into .claude/skills/electron-live-test in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Electron Live Test in Codex?

Run `npx skills add instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/electron/electron-live-test in instructa/agent-skills) into .agents/skills/electron-live-test in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Electron Live Test 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 instructa/agent-skills --skill electron-live-test -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/electron-live-test, .gemini/skills/electron-live-test, .github/skills/electron-live-test and .opencode/skills/electron-live-test in your project.

What does Electron Live Test need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Electron Live Test needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npx, curl, sh, pnpm and npm). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Electron Live Test access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npx, curl and npm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Electron Live Test 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 Electron Live Test use?

No licence was found for Electron Live Test or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Electron Live Test use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 318 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Electron Live Test?

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Who maintains Electron Live Test?

instructa (a GitHub organization) maintains it in instructa/agent-skills, which has 139 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 28, 2026.

Source: instructa/agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Electron Live Test

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Files

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