screen-capture-mcp

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An quick and easy MCP server that gives Claude Code (or any MCP client) the ability to take screenshots of your screen or specific programs over any specified interval (e.g. "take a screenshot of Unreal Engine every 5 seconds for the next minute".) Useful when working on games, GUIs, or anything visual where Claude needs to see what you see.

Windows only — uses PowerShell and .NET for screen capture.

When you're working with Claude Code on something visual — a game, a UI, a 3D editor — Claude is blind. It can read your code but has no idea what the result actually looks like. You end up manually screenshotting, dragging images into the chat, and explaining what you're looking at.

This MCP server fixes that. Once installed, Claude can take screenshots on its own whenever it needs to see what's happening on screen.

• Full screen capture — captures your primary display
• Window capture — capture a specific window by title (partial match)
• Auto-resize — images are resized to 1280px wide to save tokens
• Zero native dependencies — uses PowerShell/.NET built into Windows, no native compilation needed

npm install -g screen-capture-mcp

Then register it with Claude Code:

claude mcp add -s user -t stdio screen-capture-mcp -- screen-capture-mcp

Or add it manually to your ~/.claude.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "screen-capture-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "screen-capture-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

git clone https://github.com/kmoulder/screen-capture-mcp.git
cd screen-capture-mcp
npm install
npm run build
claude mcp add -s user -t stdio s