Peekaboo
macOS CLI and optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models. 3,271 GitHub stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“macOS CLI and optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models. 3,271 stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
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]
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"args": [
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]
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"command": "peekaboo",
"args": [
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]
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}
6 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- 3,271 GitHub stars.
- 100 commits on main in the last 30 days. Top cadence among macOS automation MCPs.
- MIT license.
- Built-in visual QA via local or remote VLM.
- Native Swift implementation; integrates with macOS APIs directly.
- macOS-only.
- Screenshot capture requires Screen Recording permission in macOS Privacy & Security settings.
- Visual QA requires a separate VLM endpoint (Claude, GPT-4V, local Llava, etc.).
Screenshot capture inherits the macOS user session permission. Treat the agent flow as having access to anything visible on the screen. Visual QA may send images to a third-party VLM endpoint; pin the endpoint to a local model for sensitive content.
macOS-specific QA flows where the agent inspects on-screen state; design review agents that compare expected vs actual UI; debugging flows where the agent verifies what the user sees on screen.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this3,271 stars on openclaw/Peekaboo. 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with Windows MCP, XcodeBuildMCP, Mobile MCP, Chrome DevTools, Playwright in dev-tools. Peekaboo owns the macOS-screenshot-with-VLM slot.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.4editorial | 3,271 | — | MAY 8, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 8, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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