app-control
Skill8 starsChanged 8 days agoMITView on GitHub
Drive a desktop Electron app (Elpis desktop, ChatGPT, Claude) as its user does, through its Chromium DevTools port: see, read, click, type. Use to try, test or compare app features first-hand. The Elpis TUI uses tmux instead.
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- dannysmith/astro-editortheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
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- dannysmith/astro-editor★ 501same name
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1 rule. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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- Very specific: line 20
Look before and after each action: see for exact names, shot for layout and colour.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
App control
appctl.py drives an Electron app through its DevTools port, so you see and use the real window.
A="python3 -I <this skill folder>/appctl.py"
$A launch elpis # starts the app with its debug port (elpis 9336, chatgpt 9334)
$A see elpis # what the user sees, as text: roles, names, values
$A shot elpis # screenshot; open the printed PNG with Read to look at it
$A click elpis "role:button=New chat" # = whole name, ~= part of one; also text=, label=, css=, xy=
$A type elpis "hello"; $A key elpis Enter
$A eval elpis "document.title"- Look before and after each action:
seefor exact names,shotfor layout and colour. - An app started without its debug port must be restarted through
launch, which closes its open window. - While an app runs with its debug port, any local program can control it. Close it when done.
- Terminal apps (the Elpis TUI):
tmux new-session -d,tmux send-keys,tmux capture-pane -p.
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