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AI & MCPLive

# Private by design

Everything stays on your Mac and only file paths come back. No tool reads keystrokes, typed text or your clipboard history.

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![Private by design in Clacky](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-privacy-light.webp)![Private by design in Clacky](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-privacy-dark.webp)

## What it is

Connect AI tools is off by default. When you turn it on, a small helper inside Clacky talks to the app over a private connection on your Mac that only your user account can open. Nothing goes over the network.

Screenshots and recordings are saved on your Mac; your AI gets the file path and a small preview. Grab Text returns only the text and saves nothing. Clacky asks before every screenshot unless you allow it.

No tool reads your keystrokes, typed text or clipboard history, and none can. The social calendar is the one online part: it posts where you tell it to.

## How to use it

1.  1
    
    Choose the tools
    
    In Settings → Connect AI tools, switch off any group your AI shouldn’t use.
    
2.  2
    
    Keep screenshots on ask
    
    Leave “Take screenshots without asking” off, and Clacky asks you before each one.
    
3.  3
    
    Turn it all off
    
    Switch off AI tools and no AI app can use Clacky at all.
    

## Questions

Does Clacky send my screenshots to the AI company?

Clacky uploads nothing. It gives your AI app the file path and a small preview; what that app does next is up to the app.

Can my AI see what I type?

No. There’s no tool for keystrokes, typed text or the clipboard.

Related features

-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/connect-ai-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/connect-ai-dark.webp)
    
    [Connect AI tools](https://clacky.app/features/connect-ai/)
    
    Turn on Settings → Connect AI tools and add Clacky to Claude, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex with one line. For Claude Code:
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-capture-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-capture-dark.webp)
    
    [Screenshots and recordings](https://clacky.app/features/mcp-capture/)
    
    Your agent can check a UI with a screenshot or record a short demo. Clacky asks you before every screenshot unless you say otherwise.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-tools-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-tools-dark.webp)
    
    [Grab Text](https://clacky.app/features/mcp-grab-text/)
    
    Read text off the screen, an image or a PDF, on your Mac with Apple Vision. Plain text only; nothing saved.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/privacy-promise-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/privacy-promise-dark.webp)
    
    [Privacy](https://clacky.app/features/privacy/)
    
    Keys become sounds and are never recorded. Screenshots, recordings and captions stay on your Mac. Anonymous usage stats you can switch off.
    

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