agent-desktop SKILL.md skillA

agent-desktop from bastani-inc/atomic is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add bastani-inc/atomic/agent-desktop@git:20261031.33bdf3b

Pins git:20261031.33bdf3b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: bastani-inc/atomic
Path: packages/subagents/skills/agent-desktop/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20261031.33bdf3b, committed Oct 31, 2026
Size: 6,889 bytes
Repository stars: 880
License: a license file GitHub does not identify

Operate native desktop applications on macOS, Windows and Linux through accessibility trees with the agent-desktop CLI. Use when an AI agent must see or act on a desktop GUI, such as clicking buttons, filling forms, reading UI state, navigating menus, toggling checkboxes, scrolling, dragging, typing text, pressing shortcuts, taking screenshots, managing windows, using the clipboard, launching or closing apps, handling OS dialogs and permission prompts, or reading notifications. Triggers…

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

# agent-desktop

agent-desktop is a CLI that lets an AI agent observe and operate desktop apps through the OS accessibility tree. It is a tool, not an agent. Every command prints one JSON envelope (`ok`, `data` or `error`). The observe, act and verify loop runs in you.

## Install and permissions

If `agent-desktop` is not on `PATH`, make one bounded attempt to install it: `npm install -g agent-desktop` (Node 18 or later; macOS 13+, Windows 10 1809+ or Ubuntu 24.04+, on x64 or arm64), then `agent-desktop version`. If npm blocks install scripts, approve them (`npm install-scripts approve agent-desktop` on npm 12, `npm install -g agent-desktop --allow-scripts=agent-desktop` on npm 11) so each call does not start Node first. Report what the install did. If it fails, report the command and the error instead of switching to another tool. Atomic bundles this skill, so do not run `npx skills add` for it.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add bastani-inc/atomic/agent-desktop@sha256:e842634870ecfbf6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.33bdf3b, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_pdic6ywds6aosaxd.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_pdic6ywds6aosaxd)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 31, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261031.33bdf3b latest	2026-10-31	33bdf3b	6,889 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6889 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

GitHub

bastani-inc/atomic · 880 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pdic6ywds6aosaxd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bastani-inc/atomic/agent-desktop
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e842634870ecfbf6459fa9657f0094c457c9cc231e45ff92cf81d52f9befcd60

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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