Topic · Productivity & Automation
Best desktop control skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Automates Electron desktop apps such as VS Code, Slack or Discord by connecting agent-browser to their Chrome DevTools Protocol port. | vercel-labs/ | 44k | 5 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 2 | Local vision CLIs: glance (describe/ask/OCR an image), ground (locate a target, pixel box), detect (element inventory), trace (image to SVG geometry), crop (cut a pixel box to a file), and… | Anionex/ | 1.2k | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 days ago |
| 3 | Platform-neutral guidance for using Open Computer Use, the open-source Computer Use MCP server and CLI for macOS, Linux, and Windows. | iFurySt/ | 2.3k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | Drives the GUI of a visible local app window through `orca computer`: accessibility tree, clicks, typing, menus, dialogs, and screenshots in native… | stablyai/ | 87k | — | ~553 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Records an annotated screen recording of the agent testing an app hands-on, then posts the video and a results summary to the PR and tracker issue. | michaelshimeles/ | 1.3k | 1 repo | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 3 days ago |
| 6 | 操作 macOS 桌面应用,探测窗口和自动化接口、截图、读取或修改辅助功能元素、执行鼠标键盘动作,以及通过 CDP 操作内嵌 Chromium 页面。适用于桌面应用自动化与界面验收;普通网页任务优先使用已有浏览器工具。 | To3akaRin/ | 1.1k | — | ~495 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 13 days ago |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when opening, navigating, inspecting, testing, clicking, typing, filling, screenshotting, or verifying web pages and local HTTP targets (localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1) inside… | zai-org/ | 7.5k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 8 days ago |
| 8 | Controls the macOS desktop visually through the TuriX computer-use agent, for opening apps, clicking buttons and navigating interfaces that have no CLI or API. | TurixAI/ | 3.2k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 9 | Uses a clean Parallels macOS VM to test GUI automation, TCC permission prompts and screenshot tools like Peekaboo, verifying results from outside the guest. | steipete/ | 7.3k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 10 | Control local macOS, Windows, and Linux apps through Waku Computer Use. | egoist/ | 1.6k | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| 11 | Controls macOS native apps that have no API, taking window-level screenshots as reproducible evidence without stealing focus and probing whether an app can be automated. | alchaincyf/ | 296 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 29 days ago |
| 12 | Lets an agent observe and operate a local Linux desktop through the computer-use-linux MCP server or Pi tools: accessibility trees, screenshots, windows and input. | agent-sh/ | 661 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 13 | Drive a signed-in Chrome / Brave / Safari session via the interceptor CLI: open/read pages, click, type, inspect DOM/text/network, automate rich browser editors and scene graphs, capture… | Hacker-Valley-Media/ | 514 | — | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 5 days ago |
| 14 | Drives desktop GUI apps and OS dialogs by letting Jev pick the next action from a menu of safe actions the agent built, with a Mac Co-Agent shortcut. | kerpopule/ | 1k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 15 | Use the built-in Computer sub-agent with agent-desktop for macOS desktop automation. | superagent-ai/ | 3.5k | — | ~720 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 16 | A skill your agent uses when you need to visually interact with a GUI — test buttons, fill forms, verify visual layouts, fuzz web pages, automate user flows, take screenshots, or perform end-to-end… | am-will/ | 940 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 17 | 17.Tldraw API Create, inspect, edit, persist, and verify tldraw canvases through the tldraw Desktop local Canvas API without mouse-driven Computer Use. | hoangnb24/ | 230 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 18 | Give an AI agent its own real browser over MCP tool calls - launch, navigate, click, fill, screenshot, extract text, run JS - with a kernel-level real-device fingerprint and a persistent profile, so… | antibrow/ | 914 | 1 repo | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 19 | Drive any installed app on an owned, unlocked, Developer-Mode iPhone via interceptor ios : ref-tagged element trees, deterministic coordinate taps (click), reliable text entry (type/keys), scroll… | Hacker-Valley-Media/ | 514 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 5 days ago |
| 20 | Drives a hidden, agent-owned Linux desktop and browser over MCP for GUI testing and web automation without touching the user's real desktop. | agent-sh/ | 185 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 21 | 21.Altic Studio macOS automation skill for AppleScript actions and Chrome browser control via MCP CDP tools. | altic-dev/ | 172 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 22 | Read verified Altium schematic connectivity from .PrjPcb projects or .SchDoc sheets through the bundled script-only Windows JSON runtime. | Chsier/ | 104 | — | ~958 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 23 | Record a user-demonstrated macOS workflow with the Open Record/Replay CLI, inspect the captured event stream, prepare a skill evidence package, and hand it to the host agent's native skill creator. | humblebanana/ | 144 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 24 | Legacy Autonomous Buddy control for explicitly requested Buddy coding sessions. | autonomous-ai/ | 381 | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 25 | Takes a screenshot of a running Electron desktop app through playwright-cli over remote debugging, shrinks it and shows it so you can check the UI visually. | keybase/ | 9.3k | — | ~476 | Automated safety check: Pass | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| 26 | 26.Review PR Review a PR from local annotated-diff artifacts and write validated review.json for the workflow to publish. | warpdotdev-demos/ | 320 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 27 | 27.Computer Use Use Orca's computer-use CLI to inspect and operate local desktop app windows through accessibility trees, screenshots, and safe UI actions. | bam-bam-2/ | 367 | 1 repo | ~915 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 28 | Control, inspect, test, or automate a physical Android phone connected to OpenMausBot over authorized USB debugging. | milind-soni/ | 4.1k | — | ~364 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 29 | 29.Unicli Comprehensive guide to Uni-CLI — the open Agent-Computer Interface runtime for real software. | olo-dot-io/ | 273 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 3 days ago |
| 30 | Invoke this automatically after completing any user-facing client change, ONLY in non-sandboxed environments and local environments. | Heartcoolman/ | 119 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| 31 | 31.Verify Reel Verify Reel, the macOS menu-bar screen recorder, by launching a disposable app bundle and driving its real UI with Computer Use. | rselbach/ | 118 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unlicense | 1 mo ago |
| 32 | See and control desktop apps on this Cloud sandbox’s virtual Linux screen with cloudroom computer-use: launch GUI apps you build or install, read their UI, click, type, and take screenshots. | davidondrej/ | 263 | — | ~881 | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 33 | Cleans a voice recording by driving Adobe Audition on a macOS host to reduce hiss, hum, background noise and sibilance, after asking for your consent. | THU-SAGE/ | 303 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 34 | 34.Steve Use the steve CLI to automate macOS apps via Accessibility APIs. | mikker/ | 170 | — | ~421 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 35 | Route every Hancom/HWP document edit, analysis, and verification request to the GSGHWPBETA (gsg-hwp-beta-live) MCP. | innae1121-bit/ | 101 | — | ~7.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 36 | Create and edit visual designs with Affinity or HTML, including computer-use editing, native-file saving, browser editing and export checks. | julilaoshi/ | 120 | — | ~831 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 37 | 37.QA Tester Create and maintain automated tests in Microsoft-native/.NET projects with a minimal stack — MSTest runner, System.Windows.Automation for Windows desktop, Playwright for real browser smoke. | JocysCom/ | 213 | — | ~12k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 38 | Use Orca orchestration for structured multi-agent coordination: threaded messages, blocking ask/reply flows, task dispatch, workerdone/escalation waits, task DAGs, decision gates, coordinator loops… | bam-bam-2/ | 367 | 1 repo | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 39 | 39.Drive Screen Take real control of the desktop - list and focus windows, type, paste, click, scroll, and screenshot - on Windows, macOS or Linux, and drive other coding-agent sessions running in terminals. | coleam00/ | 670 | — | ~5.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 40 | 40.Steer macOS GUI automation CLI. An agent skill from disler/mac-mini-agent. | disler/ | 272 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 41 | Pick a browser or desktop agent's next action by choosing among the actions actually on screen instead of inventing one. | mrmps/ | 424 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 42 | 42.Computer Use Drive a macOS app through the computer tool — read its accessibility tree, act on elements, and use real input only when the tree cannot reach the target. | kunpengtalk/ | 166 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 43 | Develop and verify HyperTTS GUI screens against a real, running Anki instance: launch Anki headlessly on a throwaway profile, inject notes with AnkiConnect, read the live Qt widget tree as text… | Vocab-Apps/ | 284 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | 24 days ago |
| 44 | Operates native desktop apps through DeepChat's built-in Computer Use tools, following a snapshot-then-act loop with session setup, app launch and window inspection. | ThinkInAIXYZ/ | 6.4k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 45 | A skill your agent uses when testing or debugging Flet apps in maintainer/contributor development mode with local Python package sources and the local Flutter client, including web, desktop… | flet-dev/ | 17k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 46 | A skill your agent uses when testing Windows 11 desktop apps (WinForms/WPF/UWP) via UFO UIA/Win32 automation MCP. | CodeAlive-AI/ | 155 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 47 | 47.Computer Use Operate web pages in Emperor's built-in browser with the browser tools, and macOS app windows with the desktop tools — open or bind a target, read it, fill, click or type, and verify the result. | TheSyart/ | 195 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 48 | 48.Triage Triage an incoming GitHub, Jira, Linear, or other issue-tracker issue against the current codebase and related open issues, then return a structured decision with exactly one… | warpdotdev-demos/ | 320 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best desktop control skill?
Electron App Automation (official) from vercel-labs/agent-browser ranks first of the 126 desktop control skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 44k GitHub stars, 5 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.7k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Vision Skills and Open Computer Use.
Which desktop control skills are official?
2 of the 126 desktop control skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Electron App Automation and Amazon Workspaces Agent Access.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.
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