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Peekaboo

Peekaboo is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire… It has 5,390 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @steipete/peekaboo.

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Install Peekaboo

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "peekaboo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@steipete/peekaboo"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio peekaboo -- npx -y @steipete/peekaboo

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "peekaboo": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@steipete/peekaboo"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "peekaboo": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@steipete/peekaboo"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Peekaboo

Peekaboo is a macOS CLI and menu-bar app for screen capture, accessibility inspection, and native UI automation. Use it directly, let its agent plan multi-step work, or expose the same toolset to MCP clients.

  • ai
  • macos
  • mcp
  • screenshots
  • swift

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How do I install the Peekaboo MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @steipete/peekaboo to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Peekaboo free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Peekaboo actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v4.9.7, published Oct 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.