drive-desktop-app SKILL.md skillA
drive-desktop-app from reticlehq/reticle is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add reticlehq/reticle/drive-desktop-app@v3.7.0Pins v3.7.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- reticlehq/reticle
- Path
skills/drive-desktop-app/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 15
- Latest version
- v3.7.0, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 17, 2026
- Size
- 5,218 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,263
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Drive and verify an Electron or Tauri desktop app from the inside, including the main-process and Rust IPC calls a browser tool cannot see. Use when a desktop app needs testing, when a feature works in the browser but not in the packaged app, when an IPC or invoke call needs proving, when a desktop screenshot or visual diff is wanted, or when you need a headless run of a desktop UI in CI.
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 a desktop app and prove what happened
A desktop app reaches its backend over **IPC, not HTTP**. Patching `fetch`/`XHR` cannot see that, so a browser-shaped tool is blind to every backend call the app makes: the network log reads empty, an action has no in-flight request to settle on, and asserting on the network is vacuously true. That is a false green by construction.
**Reticle** observes the renderer _and_ the IPC boundary, so a desktop verdict means what a web one does. Not installed? `RETICLE_INSTALL_SOURCE=npx_skill npx @reticlehq/server@latest init`, then the [`install-and-verify`](https://github.com/reticlehq/reticle/blob/main/skills/install-and-verify/SKILL.md) skill.
## Electron: two lines, none in your app code
```ts
// vite.config.ts — desktop:true lets connect() start in a packaged renderer (NODE_ENV=production).
// A default (production-mode) `vite build` ships no Reticle code; to drive a packaged
// renderer with no dev server, build it with `vite build --mode development`
export default defineConfig({
base: './', // file:// needs relative asset paths
plugins: [react(), reticle({ desktop: true })],
});
```
```js
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add reticlehq/reticle/drive-desktop-app@sha256:20fb2eb060eb42deThe line at the top of this page pins the label v3.7.0, 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_xbq4ietk3b7tqibk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 15 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v3.7.0 latest | 2026-10-09 | 4019204 | 5,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.6.0 | 2026-10-07 | c08be48 | 5,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.5.0 | 2026-10-01 | 14085e6 | 5,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.4.0 | 2026-09-30 | 2685d9a | 5,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-30 | e958b2b | 5,218 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-30 | f9b1ada | 5,097 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.3.0 | 2026-09-25 | 0b8afcc | 5,078 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.2.0 | 2026-09-23 | d400c5d | 5,078 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.1.0 | 2026-09-18 | 5d475e0 | 5,078 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.14.0 | 2026-09-09 | f3be3a9 | 5,079 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.13.1 | 2026-09-02 | 96d872c | 5,079 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.13.0 | 2026-09-02 | a6ee238 | 5,079 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.12.0 | 2026-09-02 | 9814709 | 5,079 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.9.0 | 2026-08-21 | e019802 | 5,078 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.9.0 | 2026-08-17 | ae66430 | 5,082 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 (5218 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
reticlehq/reticle · 1,263 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xbq4ietk3b7tqibk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=reticlehq/reticle/drive-desktop-app GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/20fb2eb060eb42de8dd95f10040b9a90bc3a6dd80db0d4ee850250b3df9718dc
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