→ Moved to anybrowser

macuse has been rewritten and continues there. anybrowser drives your real, signed-in browser (Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc) and native Mac apps as a signed Swift binary: no AppleScript, real HID input, an accessibility index that's fast even on Gmail, plus a site auditor built on Chrome DevTools. This repo is kept for history.

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macuse

A Claude Code skill that gives the agent eyes and hands on the macOS desktop — for the apps that have no CLI and no API.

Claude already reads your files and drives your browser. This covers the rest: Finder, Preview, Xcode, Blender, System Settings, installers, that one legacy app your workflow still depends on.

Every frame above is a real run: it types text with accents intact, asks the accessibility tree where the centre-align control is, and clicks the coordinates it got back.

scripts/mac.sh shot                      # screenshot, in clickable coordinates
scripts/mac.sh where "Save"              # → Save  ->  812 604
scripts/mac.sh click 812 604
scripts/mac.sh menu Finder File "New Window"
scripts/mac.sh type "già pronto — €50 ✓"

Why it exists

Three things quietly break every hand-rolled version of this, and each one is fixed here:

Retina coordinates. screencapture returns 2880×1800 on a 15" MacBook Pro, but the mouse lives in a 1440×900 grid. Read a button off the raw screenshot, click there, and you land somewhere else entirely. shot downscales to the logical width first, so one pixel in the image is one point for the mouse — the conversion never reaches the agent.

AppleScript eats accents. keystroke "àèìòù" types aaaaa. Silently. It follows the current keyboard layout, and non-ASCII falls through. type goes via the clipboard instead — accents, em dashes, currency symbols and emoji all survive, long text is instant, and the previous clipboard is restored.

Two permissions, not one. Clicking and typing go through System Events and need only Automation. Moving the pointer, dragging, right-clicking and the scroll wheel post CGEvents and need Accessibility — a separate grant that fails silently: the command reports success and nothing moves. check tells you which of the three you actually have before you waste a run.

Install

git clone https://github.com/erold90/macuse.git
cd macuse && ./install.sh

That copies the skill to ~/.claude/skills/macuse/. Then, in Claude Code:

scripts/mac.sh check

Grant whatever it reports as missing, in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Restart your terminal afterwards — the permission attaches to the running process.

Optional, for the pointer commands: brew install cliclick.

Commands

shot [name]	Capture the screen, scaled so pixels equal click points
where <text>	Centre coordinates of the element matching <text>
ui · apps · menus <app>	What's on screen, what's running, what's in the menu bar
click X Y	Click a point
menu <app> <menu> <item>	Pick a menu item by name — steadier than pixels
type "text"	Type via the clipboard: keeps accents and emoji
keys "text"	Type key by key (ASCII only, for fields that watch keystrokes)
key <name>	return esc tab space delete up down left right page-down …
hotkey "cmd shift" s	Modifiers in quotes, then the key
focus <app>	Bring an application to the front
move drag rclick scroll pos	Pointer control — needs Accessibility

Prefer names over pixels

The skill tells the agent to reach for coordinates last, not first:

1. A menu command → menu — names don't move when the window does
2. A named control → where reads the accessibility tree, then click
3. Anything else → shot, read it, click

How it works

No daemon, no dependencies, no model of its own. screencapture for the eyes, System Events for clicks and keys, cliclick for the pointer when you want it. One 200-line shell script you can read in full before trusting it.

The agent works a loop — look, act, look again — and the skill instructs it to confirm before anything consequential, to treat whatever is on screen as data rather than instructions, and to stop and describe what it sees after two failed attempts instead of hammering the same coordinates.

What it can't do

Worth knowing before you install it:

• where only sees what the app exposes. AppKit apps (TextEdit, Finder, Mail) expose a rich tree. Newer SwiftUI apps often expose almost nothing — Calculator's buttons come back as an unnamed Button with no title or description, so there is nothing to match on. Fall back to shot and pixels.
• Element names follow the system language. On an Italian Mac the demo above matches allinea al centro, not align centre. Read the tree with ui first rather than guessing the English name.
• The tree is not always there on the first call. Right after a window changes, a lookup can come back empty and succeed a second later. If a where matters, retry it once before falling back to coordinates.
• A control can be found and still be dead. where returns disabled controls too — clicking bold in a plain-text document does nothing, and the click reports success. Confirm with a screenshot, not with the exit code.
• No pointer without Accessibility, and that permission fails silently. Run check.

Requirements

macOS, and a terminal you're willing to grant Screen Recording and Automation. Tested on macOS Sequoia 15.7 (Intel).

Licence

MIT