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Screenshot Capture

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screenshot-capture

Screenshot Capture is an Agent Skill for documents published in the CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Capture desktop screenshots with OS-aware save-location rules, app/window/region support, and bundled helpers.

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How to use this skill

Bring this guide into your coding agent with a prompt tailored to the tool you use.

  1. Open your project in Codex.
  2. Copy and paste the prompt below.
  3. Review files and risks before approving any action.
Prompt to paste
Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS/blob/HEAD/resources/skills/screenshot-capture/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/screenshot-capture, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

Copying this prompt does not install or run the skill. Review third-party files before use.

Screenshot Capture

Purpose

Capture screenshots of the desktop, an app, a window, or a region with the right save location.

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user explicitly asks for a screenshot, for whole-system desktop captures, or when a tool-specific capture cannot get what you need.
  • Do not use when: Do not use when a better-integrated screenshot tool is available for the requested surface, or when the request is unrelated to visual capture.
  • Outputs: Saved screenshot path(s) plus a brief capture note when needed.
  • Success criteria: Returns the saved screenshot path(s), uses the requested save location, and follows the platform-specific capture workflow without inventing unavailable tools.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Take a screenshot of this app window.
  • Capture the full desktop and save it to a file.
  • Take a screenshot of Codex and put it in temp.
  • Use Screenshot Capture for this desktop capture.

Negative

  • Summarize this text without taking a screenshot.
  • Write a plan for a capture workflow.
  • This is a browser-only automation task with a better tool available.
  • This request does not involve any visual capture.

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: defined directly in ../screenshot-capture.json.
  • Detailed save-location rules and command patterns live in references/full-guidance.md.