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Agent Desktop - Printing Press CLI

agent-desktop is a native desktop automation CLI for AI agents. It is not an agent and does not call an LLM. It exposes the operating system accessibility tree as structured JSON, assigns snapshot-scoped refs such as @e1, and lets the calling agent perform semantic actions against those refs.

This Printing Press package installs agent-desktop-pp-cli, a catalog bridge. The bridge does not reimplement automation. It installs or delegates to the real remote agent-desktop package from https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop and the npm package agent-desktop.

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the agent-desktop-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:

   npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install agent-desktop --cli-only
   

2. Verify: agent-desktop-pp-cli --version
3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead:

go install github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library/library/developer-tools/agent-desktop/cmd/agent-desktop-pp-cli@latest