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OS/window-level inspection and input in visible local app windows through `orca computer`: native apps, external browser windows (Chrome, Edge, Safari), and app webviews. Not for Orca's embedded browser (use `orca-cli`) or page-only automation (use Playwright or CDP).

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$ npx -y skills add stablyai/orca --skill computer-use --agent claude-code

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/computer-use

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

OS/window-level inspection and input in visible local app windows through `orca computer`: native apps, external browser windows (Chrome, Edge, Safari), and app webviews. Not for Orca's embedded browser (use `orca-cli`) or page-only automation (use Playwright or CDP).

SKILL.md

computer-use.SKILL.md
name: computer-use
description: >-
  OS/window-level inspection and input in visible local app windows through `orca computer`:
  native apps, external browser windows (Chrome, Edge, Safari), and app webviews. Not for
  Orca's embedded browser (use `orca-cli`) or page-only automation (use Playwright or CDP).

Computer Use

This discovery stub loads the version-matched guide from the Orca executable used for this session.

Resolve the CLI for this session

Choose the executable once and reuse it for every later command:

  • If the `ORCA_CLI_COMMAND` environment variable is set, use its value. Orca exports this

for managed WSL sessions.

  • Otherwise, in a dev checkout whose session exposes `ORCA_DEV_REPO_ROOT`, use `orca-dev`.
  • Otherwise, on Linux outside an Orca-managed terminal, use `orca-ide`. Never run bare

`orca` there — outside Orca's terminals it normally resolves to the GNOME Orca screen reader (`/usr/bin/orca`) and starts speech on the user's machine.

  • Otherwise, use `orca`.

Below, `ORCA` is a placeholder for the executable you resolved. Substitute it before running anything; do not create a shell variable or run `ORCA` literally. This works the same way in POSIX shells, PowerShell, and cmd.exe.

If the selected executable cannot run, report its exact error and stop. Do not fall through to another executable, which could silently target a different Orca build.

Load the version-matched guide before running Orca commands

ORCA skills get computer-use

Prefer `--json`. Use the selected executable's `--help` for commands or flags the guide does not cover. If a command reports that Orca is not running, start it with `ORCA open --json` and retry. If `skills get` is unknown, explain that updating Orca restores the guide; use `--help` for read-only discovery and do not guess unsupported commands.

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