agent-desktop SKILL.md skillA
agent-desktop from mvanhorn/printing-press-library is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mvanhorn/printing-press-library/agent-desktop@git:20260817.d5a007cPins git:20260817.d5a007c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mvanhorn/printing-press-library
- Path
cli-skills/pp-agent-desktop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260817.d5a007c, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 12, 2026
- Size
- 9,172 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,068
- License
- none declared
Desktop automation through the real Rust agent-desktop CLI, published in Printing Press through a small bridge. Use when an agent needs to observe, inspect, or control native desktop applications with accessibility trees: snapshots, refs, clicks, typing, scrolling, windows, notifications, screenshots, clipboard, waits, and bundled version-matched skill docs.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<!-- GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT.
This file is a verbatim mirror of library/developer-tools/agent-desktop/SKILL.md,
regenerated post-merge by tools/generate-skills/. Hand-edits here are
silently overwritten on the next regen. Edit the library/ source instead.
See the repository agent guide, section "Generated artifacts: registry.json, cli-skills/". -->
# Agent Desktop - Printing Press CLI
`agent-desktop` is a native desktop automation CLI for AI agents. It is not an
agent and does not call an LLM. It exposes the operating system accessibility
tree as structured JSON, assigns snapshot-scoped refs such as `@e1`, and lets
the calling agent perform semantic actions against those refs.
This Printing Press package installs `agent-desktop-pp-cli`, a catalog bridge.
The bridge does not reimplement automation. It installs or delegates to the real
remote `agent-desktop` package from `https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop`
and the npm package `agent-desktop`.
## Prerequisites: Install the CLI
This skill drives the `agent-desktop-pp-cli` binary. **You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill.** If it is missing, install it first:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mvanhorn/printing-press-library/agent-desktop@sha256:637131b2419316c0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260817.d5a007c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6yei7qaxjvjzr4pc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 12, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260817.d5a007c latest | 2026-08-17 | d5a007c | 9,172 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.a53db92 | 2026-07-08 | a53db92 | 9,172 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.6eccac2 | 2026-06-12 | 6eccac2 | 9,172 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9172 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mvanhorn/printing-press-library · 2,068 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6yei7qaxjvjzr4pc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mvanhorn/printing-press-library/agent-desktop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/637131b2419316c0ead3ce1ee65f4752d6c3e13aa6c5367e2c46bffd70ce7e03
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