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AI & MCPLive

# Screenshots and recordings

Your agent can check a UI with a screenshot or record a short demo. Clacky asks you before every screenshot unless you say otherwise.

-   take\_screenshot
-   start\_recording
-   stop\_recording

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![Connect AI tools switches: alerts, screenshots, Grab Text, screen recording, Mac Health](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-capture-light.webp)![Connect AI tools switches: alerts, screenshots, Grab Text, screen recording, Mac Health](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-capture-dark.webp)

## What it is

Your agent can take a screenshot to see what you see, or start and stop Clacky’s screen recorder to film what it just built.

take\_screenshot grabs the screen under the pointer, or lets you pick an area or a window. Your AI gets the PNG’s file path and a small preview. start\_recording counts down 3 seconds, records the full screen or your last area, and can stop by itself after a set number of seconds. stop\_recording hands back the video’s path in ~/Movies.

Before every screenshot Clacky asks you: Allow Once, Always Allow or Don’t Allow. Nothing is uploaded by Clacky.

## How to use it

1.  1
    
    Connect Clacky
    
    Turn on Settings → Connect AI tools and add Clacky to your AI app. Leave Screenshots and Screen recording on.
    
2.  2
    
    Ask for a screenshot
    
    Say “Take a screenshot of this window and tell me what looks off.”
    
3.  3
    
    Allow it
    
    Clacky asks first. Pick Allow Once, or Always Allow to skip the question next time.
    
4.  4
    
    Or ask for a demo
    
    Say “Record my screen for 30 seconds.” After the countdown it records, stops by itself and returns the video’s path.
    

## Tips

-   “Take screenshots without asking” in Connect AI tools turns the question off. Leave it off if you want to approve each one.
-   Clacky needs macOS’s Screen Recording permission for both. The recorder needs macOS 15.

## Questions

Does my AI see my screen all the time?

No. It sees only the screenshots you allow, one at a time, and only while the Screenshots group is on.

Where do the files go?

They’re saved on your Mac (recordings in ~/Movies). Your AI gets the path and, for a screenshot, a small preview.

Related features

-   ![](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/mcp-privacy-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/mcp-privacy-dark.webp)
    
    [Private by design](https://clacky.app/features/ai-privacy/)
    
    Everything stays on your Mac and only file paths come back. No tool reads keystrokes, typed text or your clipboard history.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/recorder-bar-light.webp)
    
    [Screen Recorder](https://clacky.app/features/screen-recorder/)
    
    Record the full screen, one window or an area, with your clicks heard and their ripples seen. Saved to Movies › Clacky. macOS 15 or later.
    
-   ![](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-editor-light.webp)![](https://clacky.app/features27/shot-editor-dark.webp)
    
    [Screenshot editor](https://clacky.app/features/screenshot-editor/)
    
    Grab an area, a window or the whole screen. Mark it up with arrows, steps, text and blur, then copy or save.
    

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