Desktop Control

Unified skill for all UI automation. Chooses between CDP and Computer Use based on the target, and reports meaningful actions with a path= + action_class= transcript.

This skill is already injected into your system prompt. Do not run sed, cat, head, or Read to load it from disk. Guessing absolute paths like /Users/*/.codex/skills/... or /Users/*/.cli-jaw-*/skills/... wastes a turn and often targets a file that doesn't exist. If you need a specific reference file (e.g., reference/computer-use.md), use cli-jaw skill read desktop-control <ref-name>.

When to use

Trigger on any request that touches a visible UI:

• User message contains $computer-use or /computer-use → skip routing analysis, jump straight to reference/computer-use.md. Explicit user opt-in. If Computer Use tools are not available, stop with precondition failed: computer-use unavailable.
• "open this URL / click this button / type in this field" → read reference/cdp.md
• "switch Chrome tab / open Finder / click System Settings" → read reference/computer-use.md
• "click the thing inside this Canvas / WebGL / iframe" → read reference/vision-click.md
• Not sure which path → read reference/intent-routing.md FIRST
• Want a real end-to-end example → read reference/control-workflow.md

Absolute rules