screen-mcp

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI agents eyes on an Omarchy / Hyprland Wayland desktop. It captures screenshots via grim and offers optional image analysis powered by the Gemini API — useful when the calling model has no native vision encoder.

Features

Screenshots use grim (wlroots screencopy protocol) — no X11 required.

Related MCP server: hyprland-mcp-server

Prerequisites

• Omarchy, Hyprland, or any wlroots-based Wayland compositor

• grim — Wayland screenshot tool

• slurp — (optional) interactive region selection helper

• hyprctl — Hyprland window/query CLI

• jq — (optional) used by some helper scripts

Check with:

grim --help && hyprctl clients -j | head -c 20

For image analysis (optional)

• A Gemini API key — get one at https://aistudio.google.com

• Export it in your environment:

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"

Without the key, the screenshot tools still work; only analyze_image and screenshot_and_analyze will return an error.

Installation

Via Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "screen-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "screen-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Via npx

npx -y screen-mcp

# Or install globally:
npm install -g screen-mcp

Usage examples

Capture a screen region

screenshot_region(x=100, y=200, width=800, height=600, include_cursor=true)

Capture a specific window

First list available windows to get an address or title:

list_windows()

Then capture by title (substring match), address, or "focused":

screenshot_window(window="Spotify")
screenshot_window(window="focused")
screenshot_window(window="0x557ba79b4900")

Analyze an image with Gemini

analyze_image(
  image_path="/tmp/my-screenshot.png",
  prompt="What applications are visible in this screenshot?",
  model="gemini-2.5-flash"
)

Or pass base64-encoded image data directly:

analyze_image(
  image="<base64-encoded-image>",
  prompt="Describe what you see in this image.",
  mime_type="image/png"
)

Capture and analyze in one call

screenshot_and_analyze(
  x=0, y=0, width=1920, height=1080,
  prompt="Count the number of windows open and list their titles.",
  scale=0.5,
  model="gemini-2.5-flash"
)

Development

# Install deps
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Run
npm start

# Development (recompile on change)
npm run dev

How it works

• Capture: src/capture.ts wraps grim (screenshots) and hyprctl (window enumeration). Window capture first tries grim -T <stableId> (foreign-toplevel handle), falling back to grim -g "<x>,<y> <w>x<h>" (geometry from hyprctl).

• Analysis: src/gemini.ts uses the official @google/genai SDK. Images are passed inline as base64 to the Gemini API's interactions.create endpoint.

• Server: src/index.ts wires everything together as a stdio-transported MCP server using @modelcontextprotocol/server.

License

MIT