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macos-control-skill

Triggered when the user asks the AI to directly operate their macOS desktop: open an app, click a button, fill a form inside a native window, read what's currently on screen, automate a local GUI flow. Typical phrasing: "in Finder, please…", "click X in the Y app", "what's on my screen right now". **Available only in OpenLoaf Desktop (macOS)**; other platforms return a desktop-only error — fall back to `BrowserAct` or hand the task back to the user. **Not for**: in-page web interaction (→ `browser-ops-skill`), local file I/O (→ `Read`/`Edit`/`Write`).

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Quality

Content

88%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

An exemplary instruction-only skill body: concrete tool-call recipes for the common cases, a strict survey-first workflow with explicit verification after every action, real error codes with recovery paths, and genuine safety stops for sensitive apps. The only room for improvement is minor trimming of repeated warnings and moving the sample Survey output / error catalog into a reference file to slim the main body.

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Conciseness

The body is dense and tool-specific rather than padded — nearly every section teaches behavior Claude cannot know ("Cached per session × app for 5 minutes", "covered / off-screen / minimized windows still capture", "richness: 0.995"). Minor over-explanation remains: the "When a human opens an unfamiliar app they look around first" analogy, and the self-drawn/close-button warning repeated across three sections (Core mindset, Execution priority, and Rules 1/4), which could be trimmed. This fits the score-4 anchor (efficient, minor instances that could be trimmed) rather than score 5, whose 'every token earns its place' bar the repetition and analogy fall short of; it is well above score 3's 'some unnecessary explanation'.

4 / 5

Actionability

Flows A–F give concrete, directly issuable tool invocations covering the common cases — e.g. "MacosAct { type: 'intent', app: 'WeChat', intent: 'open_moments' }", "MacosAct { type: 'key', keys: ['cmd', 'n'] }", "MacosCaptureWindow { windowID: 227474 }" — with real parameter shapes, concrete error codes (`WINDOW_CHROME_BLOCKED`, `permissionsMissing`) and their remedies. Placeholders like `path: [...]` are inherently runtime-determined values, not pseudocode. This matches the score-5 anchor (specific examples cover the common cases); it is above score 4 because no real gaps exist beyond values only knowable at runtime.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear three-phase sequence ("Survey → Plan → Act+Verify"), a strict execution priority order ("Go down the list in order. Never skip ahead."), and explicit validation checkpoints: "**Observe after every MacosAct.** UI has state; you can't predict the outcome", plus feedback loops for error recovery ("Click has no effect → re-observe", "WINDOW_CHROME_BLOCKED → … Pick one of the 4 suggested fallbacks") and stop conditions ("After two coord clicks with no visible change, stop"). This matches the score-5 anchor (explicit validation steps, feedback loops, checklists via the Rules section); score 4's 'minor validation gaps' do not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The single SKILL.md (~180 lines) is well-sectioned with headers, a tool inventory table, and labeled flows, and no bundle files exist to mis-link. However, all content is inline with zero one-level-deep references — the "What a Survey response looks like" annotated sample and the Error diagnosis catalog are candidates for a reference file — so it fits the score-4 anchor (good structure, most content appropriately placed, minor organization gaps) rather than the score-5 anchor, which requires well-signaled external references; the under-50-line exception for a reference-free skill does not apply at this length.

4 / 5

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Description

92%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: concrete capability list, explicit trigger conditions with quoted user phrasings, platform boundary, and explicit not-for redirects to neighboring skills. The only weakness is that the set of natural trigger phrases, while good, is not exhaustive — a few common phrasings like "control my Mac" are absent.

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Specificity

The description lists multiple concrete actions — "open an app, click a button, fill a form inside a native window, read what's currently on screen, automate a local GUI flow" — giving comprehensive, non-abstract coverage of the skill's capabilities. This matches the score-5 anchor (multiple specific concrete actions, comprehensive coverage) rather than score 4, which reserves room for coverage gaps that are not present here; no vague filler like "helps with the desktop" appears.

5 / 5

Completeness

Both questions are answered explicitly: 'what' via the concrete action list, and 'when' via "Triggered when the user asks the AI to directly operate their macOS desktop" reinforced with literal example phrasings and negative triggers ("**Not for**: in-page web interaction…"). This matches the score-5 anchor (clear and explicit what AND when with concrete trigger phrases); it is not score 4 because the 'when' is fully explicit with quoted user phrases rather than merely serviceable.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Trigger guidance is strong: "Typical phrasing: 'in Finder, please…', 'click X in the Y app', 'what's on my screen right now'" plus natural action terms ("open an app", "fill a form", "read what's currently on screen"). However, common variations users would naturally say are missing — e.g., "control my Mac", "type/press this for me", "scroll down" — so it sits between the score-4 anchor (good coverage, a few natural terms missing) and the score-5 anchor (comprehensive coverage including synonyms), landing noticeably above the midpoint but short of comprehensive.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

A clear niche (native macOS desktop GUI operation) with explicit disambiguation from the nearest competing skills: "**Not for**: in-page web interaction (→ `browser-ops-skill`), local file I/O (→ `Read`/`Edit`/`Write`)" plus the platform boundary "**Available only in OpenLoaf Desktop (macOS)**". This matches the score-5 anchor (clear niche, distinct triggers, minimal conflict risk); score 4's 'minor overlap risk with closely related skills' is essentially preempted by the explicit redirects.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

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16

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Repository

itsablabla/openloaf-web

Path

apps/server/src/ai/builtin-skills/macos-control/en/SKILL.md

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