# Windows Elevation

> Choose and execute the narrowest Windows elevation method while preserving output, with a guarded SYSTEM fallback for exceptional protected operations.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-batteryshark-skill-tap-windows-elevation`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [batteryshark](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/batteryshark)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [batteryshark](https://github.com/batteryshark)
- **Source:** https://github.com/batteryshark/skill-tap/tree/main/skills/utilities/windows-elevation

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-batteryshark-skill-tap-windows-elevation
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Elevate a Windows Operation

1. Run `bin/windows-elevation` to inspect the current identity and available mechanisms.
2. Read [references/elevation-model.md](references/elevation-model.md). First determine whether elevation is actually required and narrow the command, target, and duration.
3. Prefer the operating system's supported interactive administrator elevation. Preserve stdout/stderr when possible, but never trade away the visible UAC consent boundary.
4. Show the exact elevated command and expected effects, obtain approval, execute it once, and verify the intended state with an unprivileged read.
5. Use a scheduled task running as SYSTEM only when administrator access is demonstrably insufficient. SYSTEM is non-interactive, isolated from the desktop, and should write bounded output to a pre-created protected location; remove the temporary task and files afterward.

Use [agents/elevation-reviewer.md](agents/elevation-reviewer.md) before any SYSTEM-level plan.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [batteryshark](https://github.com/batteryshark)
- **Source:** [batteryshark/skill-tap](https://github.com/batteryshark/skill-tap)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-batteryshark-skill-tap-windows-elevation
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/batteryshark
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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