Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/openai/skills --skill screenshot
https://github.com/openai/skills/tree/main/skills/.curated/screenshot
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Captures screenshots at the OS level across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Supports full screen, specific app or window, pixel regions, and multi-display setups. Falls back to direct OS commands when helper scripts are unavailable.
Instead of manually running platform-specific commands or dealing with macOS permission prompts each time, the bundled scripts handle tool selection, save-path logic, and permission checks automatically across all three major OSes.
When to use it
- Capturing a specific app window by name on macOS for visual inspection
- Taking a pixel-region screenshot to isolate a UI element during debugging
- Saving a full-screen capture to the OS default location on request
- Running a preflight permission check before capturing on macOS to avoid repeated prompts
- Capturing the active window on Linux using scrot or gnome-screenshot