Authors and runs Windows UI tests against WinAppDriver, Microsoft's W3C-WebDriver service for UWP / WPF / WinForms / Win32 apps: installing + launching `WinAppDriver.exe` on `127.0.0.1:4723`, declaring `app` / `platformName` / `appArguments` / `appTopLevelWindow` capabilities, finding elements by `AccessibilityId` / `Name` / `ClassName`, and Windows-runner CI. Use when driving a native Windows app from a Selenium-style client (C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JS); for the actively-maintained Appium 2.x wrapper over the same server use appium-windows-driver, for a C#-only FlaUI client use flaui-tests, and to choose among Windows desktop drivers first use desktop-test-strategy-reference.
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Security
1 medium severity finding. This skill can be installed but you should review these findings before use.
The skill prompts the agent to compromise the security or integrity of the user’s machine by modifying system-level services or configurations, such as obtaining elevated privileges, altering startup scripts, or changing system-wide settings.
The skill explicitly instructs installing WinAppDriver (which writes under Program Files), enabling Developer Mode, and notes administrator privileges are required for custom bindings — all actions that modify system state and may require elevated privileges.
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1 low severity finding. Worth noting, but not necessarily harmful.
The skill fetches instructions or code from an external URL at runtime, and the fetched content directly controls the agent’s prompts or executes code. This dynamic dependency allows the external source to modify the agent’s behavior without any changes to the skill itself.
The SKILL explicitly instructs operators to "Download the latest WinAppDriver installer from the releases page" which resolves to https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver — a runtime fetch of a remote executable that is then run on the host, so it executes remote code and is a required dependency.