External Electron Apps

by saffron-health

External Electron Apps is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by saffron-health in libretto.

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Install External Electron Apps

Copy External Electron Apps into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto/tree/main/.agents/skills/external-electron-apps ~/.claude/skills/external-electron-apps

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/external-electron-apps/SKILL.md in saffron-health/libretto
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/external-electron-apps
Collection: One of 23 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What External Electron Apps does

External Electron Apps automates user-installed Electron desktop apps through Libretto and CDP. Use it to control apps like Slack, VS Code, Discord, Notion, Figma, or Spotify on the user's machine.

External Electron Apps is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. External Electron Apps comes from a repository tagged automation, browser, claude-code, codex and rpa.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

External Electron App Automation

Use this skill for external Electron desktop apps running on the user's machine. Do not default to this for this repository's own Electron app unless the user explicitly asks.

Core workflow

Quit the app if it is already running.
Relaunch the app with --remote-debugging-port=<port>.
Connect with npx libretto connect http://127.0.0.1:<port> --session <session>.
Verify targets with npx libretto pages --session <session>.
Run interactions with npx libretto exec "<code>" --session <session>.
Capture evidence with npx libretto snapshot --session <session>.
When a reusable workflow file is ready, execute it with npx libretto run ./workflow.ts --cdp http://127.0.0.1:<port> (optional --page page-N).

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about External Electron Apps

What else does saffron-health publish alongside External Electron Apps?
External Electron Apps is one of 23 skills that DirSkills catalogs from saffron-health/libretto, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Address Review, CLI Development and Errore. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way External Electron Apps does, and is maintained by saffron-health in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the saffron-health/libretto page.
How does External Electron Apps compare to other Automation skills?
External Electron Apps ranks #938 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of External Electron Apps against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.