Topic · Productivity & Automation

Best desktop control skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that see and operate a desktop through screenshots and input.
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Desktop control skills, ranked

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Desktop control skills, ranked
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Automates Electron desktop apps such as VS Code, Slack or Discord by connecting agent-browser to their Chrome DevTools Protocol port.

vercel-labs/agent-browser44k5 repos~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0yesterday
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/agent-vision-toolkit1.2k—~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 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/open-codex-computer-use2.3k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
4

Drives the GUI of a visible local app window through `orca computer`: accessibility tree, clicks, typing, menus, dialogs, and screenshots in native…

stablyai/orca87k—~553Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
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/skills1.3k1 repo~3.9kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence3 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/mac-computer-use1.1k—~495Automated safety check: PassMIT13 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/ZCode7.5k—~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.08 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/TuriX-CUA3.2k—~3.2kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT23 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/agent-scripts7.3k—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
10

Control local macOS, Windows, and Linux apps through Waku Computer Use.

egoist/waku1.6k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.05 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/huashu-mac-use296—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT29 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/computer-use-linux661—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 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/Interceptor514—~4.8kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown5 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/hermes-jev-skills1k—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
15

Use the built-in Computer sub-agent with agent-desktop for macOS desktop automation.

superagent-ai/grok-cli3.5k—~720Automated safety check: PassMIT3 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/gooey-pi940—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
17

Create, inspect, edit, persist, and verify tldraw canvases through the tldraw Desktop local Canvas API without mouse-driven Computer Use.

hoangnb24/skills230—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 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/anti-detect-browser-skills9141 repo~4.2kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT1 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/Interceptor514—~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown5 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/agent-workspace-linux185—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
21

macOS automation skill for AppleScript actions and Chrome browser control via MCP CDP tools.

altic-dev/altic-mcp172—~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.02 mo ago
22

Read verified Altium schematic connectivity from .PrjPcb projects or .SchDoc sheets through the bundled script-only Windows JSON runtime.

Chsier/ADReader104—~958Automated safety check: PassNo licence1 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/open-record-replay144—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
24

Legacy Autonomous Buddy control for explicitly requested Buddy coding sessions.

autonomous-ai/Physical-AI-Operating-System381—~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
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/client9.3k—~476Automated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clausetoday
26

Review a PR from local annotated-diff artifacts and write validated review.json for the workflow to publish.

warpdotdev-demos/cloud-factory-demo320—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
27

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/solo-skills3671 repo~915Automated safety check: PassMIT23 days ago
28

Control, inspect, test, or automate a physical Android phone connected to OpenMausBot over authorized USB debugging.

milind-soni/OpenMausBot4.1k—~364Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
29

Comprehensive guide to Uni-CLI — the open Agent-Computer Interface runtime for real software.

olo-dot-io/Uni-CLI273—~3.8kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.03 days ago
30

Invoke this automatically after completing any user-facing client change, ONLY in non-sandboxed environments and local environments.

Heartcoolman/warp-cn119—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.02 days ago
31

Verify Reel, the macOS menu-bar screen recorder, by launching a disposable app bundle and driving its real UI with Computer Use.

rselbach/reel118—~2kAutomated safety check: PassUnlicense1 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/cloudroom-core263—~881Automated safety check: NotesApache-2.0today
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/syll303—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
34

Use the steve CLI to automate macOS apps via Accessibility APIs.

mikker/steve170—~421Automated safety check: PassNo licence6 mo ago
35

Route every Hancom/HWP document edit, analysis, and verification request to the GSGHWPBETA (gsg-hwp-beta-live) MCP.

innae1121-bit/gsghwp101—~7.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 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/julilaoshi-design120—~831Automated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
37

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/FocusLogger213—~12kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.03 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/solo-skills3671 repo~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT23 days ago
39

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/skills670—~5.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT20 days ago
40

macOS GUI automation CLI. An agent skill from disler/mac-mini-agent.

disler/mac-mini-agent272—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence7 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/classifier-dev424—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
42

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/PeakCode166—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT15 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/anki-hyper-tts284—~2.8kAutomated safety check: NotesGPL-3.024 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/deepchat6.4k—~2.9kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.04 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/flet17k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
46

A skill your agent uses when testing Windows 11 desktop apps (WinForms/WPF/UWP) via UFO UIA/Win32 automation MCP.

CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development155—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
47

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/emperor-agent195—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT8 days ago
48

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/cloud-factory-demo320—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 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.