drive-desktop-cdp SKILL.md skillB

drive-desktop-cdp from different-ai/openwork is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add different-ai/openwork/drive-desktop-cdp@git:20261015.ef455ca

Pins git:20261015.ef455ca in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
different-ai/openwork
Path
.opencode/skills/drive-desktop-cdp/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20261015.ef455ca, committed Oct 15, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 2, 2026
Size
2,450 bytes
Repository stars
24,350
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Drive the running OpenWork app over CDP from the shell, headless by default (nothing opens on screen). Evaluate JS, take screenshots, open a new session, send a prompt with a chosen model, wait for the run to finish. Use when checking a UI change by hand in a world or pnpm dev, or when reproducing a chat state.

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

# Drive the app over CDP

For verdicts, write or run an `evals/core` journey or `evals/proofs` proof (`write-a-spec`, `run-tests`). This skill is for checking changes by hand and reproducing states quickly.

## Find the app

Default to the app in headless Chrome. It runs this checkout (Vite hot reload included) and opens nothing on the developer's screen:

```bash
pnpm world up dev-app-web --detach -- --browser   # prints webUrl and cdp http://127.0.0.1:<port>
pnpm world down dev-app-web                        # when you are done
```

Use a desktop window only when the change needs the desktop shell (titlebar, native menus, deep links, the built-in browser pane, updater, quit and relaunch) or the user asks for it. A desktop window opens and takes focus on this computer:

- `pnpm dev`: CDP on `http://127.0.0.1:9823`.
- `pnpm world up live-desktop -- --allow-shared-state` prints `cdp http://127.0.0.1:<port>` and uses the real installed profile.

Set `CDP_URL` to the address the world printed for every command.

## Commands

```bash
S=.opencode/skills/drive-desktop-cdp/scripts/cdp.mjs
export CDP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:55322
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add different-ai/openwork/drive-desktop-cdp@sha256:15e58ba066e97cd9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.ef455ca, 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

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[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_rdslwj5rokvbub5i.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rdslwj5rokvbub5i)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 7 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261015.ef455ca latest2026-10-15 ef455ca 2,450 BB view · diff
git:20261014.ae5014f2026-10-14 ae5014f 2,424 BB view · diff
git:20261002.739dae12026-10-02 739dae1 1,860 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2450 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 script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

different-ai/openwork · 24,350 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch dev

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rdslwj5rokvbub5i
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=different-ai/openwork/drive-desktop-cdp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/15e58ba066e97cd9244310354e82392b71af916ecacf281a0e05bed317466d1b

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