shell-use
shell-use is a Browser & computer-use automation skill for AI agents, published by microsoft in the shell-use repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates shell-use C (79/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Drive, inspect, assert on, record, and watch a real terminal from the command line with the shell-use CLI. Use when running shells (bash, zsh, fish, PowerShell, pwsh, cmd, xonsh, elvish, nushell) or TUI programs (vim, less, top, etc.) in a headless PTY; sending keystrokes, key combos, or mouse input; resizing, writing raw bytes, or signaling the child; waiting for a command to finish or the screen to settle; asserting on terminal text, colors, exit codes, output, or snapshots; capturing text or full-color SVG screenshots; recording and replaying asciinema sessions; watching a live session while an agent drives it; or doing any of this from Python or Node with the shell-use bindings.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 79 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 200
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Our review
- Architecture
- 97 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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