DesktopVisionMCP. Show, don't tell.
Stop describing your screen or pasting screenshots to AI.
What it does
You describe your screen to your assistant. You screenshot it, crop it, paste it, and still leave out the thing that mattered. DesktopVisionMCP lets it look instead. A macOS menu bar app and a plain MCP server, so it works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, or whatever you move to next. It captures only when asked. It never records, never clicks, never types, and its state is always in the menu bar. Captures go to the assistant that asked, and nowhere else.
A macOS menu bar app that lets your assistant see your screen. Stop describing what you see; ask the question you actually have.
Stop taking screenshots, and stop trying to describe what you see. No more dragging images into the chat or copy-pasting. Ask your actual question and your assistant will know what you are referring to. Give your AI assistant visibility. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, any of them. If it speaks MCP, it can see what you see. Now you can get your assistant's input without figuring out how to grab the correct context. ~/acme/web npm run build vite v5.4.2 building for production... transforming (312) src/checkout/session.ts Build failed in 4.21s [vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "@/lib/money" from "src/checkout/session.ts". 12 | import { Cart } from '@/lib/cart' 13 | import…from desktopvisionmcp.com
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