Peekaboo
Peekaboo is an MCP server. Its repository has 5,395 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-26.
Peekaboo captures screenshots on macOS systems and can optionally connect to AI models for visual question answering, either locally or remotely.
Install
Read from Peekaboo’s own README, close to verbatim -- not written by us, and not guessed.
peekaboo config
What it reaches, and what it needs
Reaches
○ not recognised
Credential
○ none found
Maintenance
Stars
5395
State
listed
Licence
MIT
From the repository
Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & 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.
What Peekaboo can do
18 tools documented in its README. An AI client calls these by name.
see- Interact with UI
click- Interact with UI
type- Interact with UI
press- Interact with UI
scroll- Interact with UI
drag- Interact with UI
set-value- Interact with UI
action- Interact with UI
app- Control macOS
window- Control macOS
menu- Control macOS
menubar- Control macOS
dock- Control macOS
dialog- Control macOS
space- Control macOS
agent- Run workflows
capture- Run workflows
browser- Integrate with clients
Read from the README; names are kept only if the README contains them.
Common questions about Peekaboo
- What does Peekaboo do?
- Peekaboo captures screenshots on macOS systems and can optionally connect to AI models for visual question answering, either locally or remotely.
- How do I install Peekaboo?
- Its own README gives this command: peekaboo config. Run it where your MCP client can launch the server, and check the README for any settings it asks for.
- Is Peekaboo official and is it maintained?
- We found nothing naming it as a vendor’s official server. Its repository has 5,395 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-26.
- What licence does Peekaboo use?
- The repository declares the MIT licence.