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Your AI can use your Mac’s little tools now.

Connect Clacky and ask your AI to record your screen, take a screenshot, read the text on it, keep your Mac awake or ping you when it’s done. It happens on your Mac, right away.

claude mcp add --scope user clacky -- /Applications/Clacky.app/Contents/MacOS/clacky-mcp
Claude Code, in Terminal.Other apps: how to use →
Record & capture

It can film what it just built.

Your AI starts and stops Clacky’s recorder, or takes a screenshot to see what you see. Screenshots ask you first, unless you switch that off.

Record my screen for 30 seconds while I show the new menu.
clacky · start_recording
3, 2, 1… recording. Stops by itself after 30 s and hands back the video in ~/Movies.
Take a screenshot of this window and tell me what looks off.
clacky · take_screenshot
Asks you to allow it, you pick the window, your AI gets the PNG’s path and a small preview.
Grab Text

It can read what’s on your screen.

An error dialog, a slide, a photo of a receipt: Clacky reads the text on your Mac with Apple’s on-device text recognition and hands back only the text. Nothing is saved.

Read the error in this dialog and fix it.
clacky · grab_text
You drag over the dialog. Your AI gets the words, not a picture.
What’s the total on ~/Desktop/receipt.jpg?
clacky · grab_text
Clacky reads the image on your Mac and returns its text. The file stays where it is.
Long tasks

Go make coffee. It’ll call you.

Keep the Mac awake through a long build, and hear Agent Alerts’ sound with a notification when it’s done or needs you. Quiet hours still apply.

Keep my Mac awake for 2 hours while the tests run.
clacky · keep_awake
Keep Awake is on for 2 h. Your Mac and display won’t sleep.
Ping me when the build is done.
clacky · notify
“Build passed” with Clacky’s done sound and a glow, wherever you are on your Mac.
Your day

It can tidy up your day too.

Add notes and tasks to Clacky’s Today list, start a focus timer, or switch modes, right from the chat.

Add “send the invoice” to tomorrow, then start a 25-minute focus.
clacky · add_task · start_focus
Task added to tomorrow. Focus timer running: 25:00.
I’m about to record a demo. Set up my Mac.
clacky · set_mode
Switched to Record mode. “none” puts everything back the way it was.
Social calendar

Plan your posts in one sentence.

The calendar lives online, so it connects on its own: paste this address into your AI app and sign in with your Clacky account. It posts only when you ask, at the time you say.

Calendar MCP address
https://clacky.app/api/social/mcp
Schedule this for Thursday 9:00 on Bluesky and Threads.
clacky · schedule_post
Scheduled for Thu 9:00 (+02:00) on 2 accounts. It’s in your Clacky calendar.
How did my posts do in the last 30 days?
clacky · get_stats
Posts per platform, likes, comments and shares, plus visitors and sales from your links.

How to use

Two minutes, once. Pick your app.

In Terminal:
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In Clacky, open Settings → Connect AI tools and turn it on. Pick which tools your AI may use.

It’s off until you do this. Clacky shows the same snippets there, with the path to your copy of the app.

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Local. Clacky uploads nothing.

The Mac tools run on your Mac and talk only to the AI app you connected. Screenshots and recordings stay on your Mac; your AI gets the file path and a small preview. Grab Text returns only the text. Never your typing or clipboard. Off until you turn it on, and screenshots ask first.

The social calendar is the one online part: it posts where you tell it to.

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