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PowerSkills: Giving AI Agents Control Over Windows with PowerShell
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PowerSkills: Giving AI Agents Control Over Windows with PowerShell

via Dev.toAlexander Loth

If you're building AI agents that need to interact with Windows, you've probably noticed: most agent tooling assumes Linux or macOS. Windows automation is an afterthought. But enterprise work happens on Windows. Outlook holds the emails. Edge holds the browser sessions. PowerShell is the automation backbone. PowerSkills bridges this gap. What is PowerSkills? PowerSkills is an open-source PowerShell toolkit that gives AI agents structured control over Windows - Outlook email, Edge browser, desktop windows, and system operations. Every action returns clean, parseable JSON. The Four Skill Modules Outlook - Read inbox, search emails, send messages, access calendar events via COM automation Browser - Control Edge via Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) - list tabs, navigate, take screenshots, interact with the DOM Desktop - Manage windows, capture screenshots, read/write clipboard, send keystrokes via Win32 API System - Query system info, manage processes, execute commands, read environment vari

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