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    Windows Automation Pre-Flight Check

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    Prevent flaky Windows automation by enforcing robust UI identity, conditional waits, and safety guards.

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    Windows Automation Pre-Flight Check

    Windows Automation Pre-Flight Check

    Example session with this skill installed

    I need a Python script to open our inventory app, click the refresh button, and save the CSV report to the desktop.

    • Read your context and instructions
    • Compiled the windows automation pre-flight
    • Generated the data export

    WINDOWS AUTOMATION PRE-FLIGHT
    Target: Inventory Manager (Local)
    Locate by: Refresh (Button, auto_id: "btnRefresh"), Save (Button, name: "Export CSV")
    Waits: Wait until "btnRefresh" is enabled; wait for Save Dialog (max 20s)
    Safety: Verify window focus; check if file exists before saving.

    windows-automation-pre-flight-check.csv

    CSV · data export

    Generated

    Example file from a real run - the skill writes it into your workspace.

    Connects securely to your tools. The creator never sees your data.

    About this skill

    Stop Shipping Flaky Desktop Scripts

    Automating Windows applications is notoriously fragile. Most agents default to brittle pixel-clicking, fixed sleep timers, and "blind" keystrokes that break if a window moves or a network lags. This skill installs a mandatory pre-flight safety gate for your AI agent, ensuring it designs robust, production-grade automation before it ever writes a line of code.

    What it does

    When you ask your agent to automate a desktop app, this skill intercepts the request to generate a structured strategy. It forces the agent to identify controls using accessibility trees (UI Automation) rather than screen coordinates, define condition-based wait states instead of time.sleep(), and implement window-focus guards to prevent typing into the wrong application.

    Why use this skill?

    • Fail-Safe Design: Automatically includes abort hotkeys and "no-clobber" checks for destructive actions like file overwrites.
    • Environment Awareness: Differentiates between local apps and Remote Desktop/Citrix environments, adjusting the strategy from UIA to Image Match/OCR where necessary.
    • Observability: Ensures every script includes error logging and automated screenshots for easy debugging of GUI failures.
    • Better than Prompting: Prevents the common "AI hallucinations" regarding window titles and control IDs by mandating path discovery via print_control_identifiers() or Inspect.exe.

    How to install

    Works the same in every agent - Claude, Cursor, Codex, Copilot and 20+ more.

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