Give your AI eyes — safely

Shotcrisp is a built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Claude Code and other MCP clients can capture your screen, read on-screen text, and locate UI elements — with your privacy rules enforced in the middle. Built into Shotcrisp for macOS.

Setup

1 · Download Shotcrisp and launch it.
2 · Turn on Settings → Privacy → AI Agents (off by default).
3 · Register the server with your MCP client — for Claude Code:

claude mcp add --scope user shotcrisp -- \
  /Applications/Shotcrisp.app/Contents/MacOS/shotcrisp-mcp

4 · In your next session, the first tool call shows a one-time approval prompt in Shotcrisp. That's it.

Claude Desktop instead? Download the Shotcrisp extension and drag it into Claude Desktop → Settings → Extensions. The Shotcrisp app must be installed first — the extension is a pointer to it, not a copy of it.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_windows`	Capturable windows (app, title, id, size). Titles are scrubbed of emails and secrets.
`capture_screen`	The main display as an image, with your exclusions applied and sensitive text blacked out.
`capture_window`	One window as an image, same protections.
`read_screen_text`	OCR text lines instead of pixels — cheaper when the agent only needs to read. Sensitive lines come back [REDACTED].
`find_on_screen`	Locate text with pixel rectangles — for agents that drive UI.

The trust model

Off by default. No agent sees anything until you flip the toggle.
Verified consent. Each client is approved once — identified by its code signature, not the name it claims. A process calling itself “Claude” but signed as something else is exposed right on the prompt. Revoke any client in Settings.
Your privacy suite applies, always. Apps on your never-capture list stay invisible; known secret patterns — emails, API keys, passwords, and card numbers — are auto-redacted before the agent sees a pixel. Detection is best-effort pattern-matching, not a guarantee: treat an agent capture like sharing your screen, and keep truly sensitive apps on the never-capture list.
Nothing invisible. The menu-bar icon flashes on every agent capture, and the activity log in Settings records every action: which client, what it saw, when, and how much was redacted.

Uninstall

claude mcp remove --scope user shotcrisp — or just revoke the client / turn off the toggle in Shotcrisp; the registration then gets a clear error instead of your screen.

Works with any MCP client that speaks stdio (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and friends). Questions: support@shotcrisp.app