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        local · MCP · computer-use

kira-mcp is a local Model Context Protocol server that gives any MCP-compatible agent host (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, …) full computer-use capabilities on the host machine.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9b65987-32b1-43f5-bdf0-006ea71c6d13

Kira solving a CAPTCHA end-to-end — one perceive_screen, click-ready pixels, no human in the loop.

Built and tuned for Windows. macOS and Linux are best-effort — most tools work, but some UI conventions differ.

• Vision — perceive_screen is the agent's one-shot "look at the screen" tool. It grabs the current display in memory, runs the local microsoft/OmniParser-v2 YOLO icon-detector on it, and returns an annotated image plus JSON with each element's {id, bbox, cx, cy, confidence} in absolute screen pixels — so the agent can pipe cx, cy straight into mouse_click. No API key, no network call.

• Desktop automation — pixel-accurate mouse control, keyboard input (incl. chords and key holds), and clipboard read/write via pyautogui, mss, and pyperclip.

The server speaks stdio JSON-RPC and is launched as a child process by your agent host.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+

• Platform extras (pyautogui needs them to actually drive input):

  OS	Setup
  Windows	Nothing extra — primary platform.
  macOS	Grant Accessibility permission to the terminal running the server: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. First screenshot also prompts for Screen Recording.
  Linux	sudo apt install python3-tk python3-dev scrot xdotool (or the equivalent on your distro). X11 sessions only — Wayland blocks raw screen grabs (see Wayland note).

Install

From PyPI (recommended):

pip install kira-mcp

…or, for an isolated global install that won't pollute any project's site-packages:

pipx install kira-mcp

Either form installs the kira-mcp console script and registers every tool module.

The OmniParser-v2 YOLO icon-detector weights (icon_detect/model.pt, ~39 MB) ship inside the wheel — no separate download step. They are loaded and warmed up from disk at server startup.

Working on kira-mcp itself? Clone and install editable: git clone https://github.com/Anmol202005/kira-mcp.git && cd kira-mcp && pip install -e .

If your clone is missing the weights (e.g. a shallow checkout, or you stripped them), restore them with:

hf download microsoft/OmniParser-v2.0 \
  icon_detect/model.pt \
  icon_detect/model.yaml \
  --local-dir src/kira_mcp/weights

Or point to a model.pt elsewhere on disk by setting KIRA_YOLO_WEIGHTS in your environment.

Configure your agent host

Claude Desktop / Claude Code

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Desktop) or via claude mcp add (Code):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kira-mcp": {
      "command": "kira-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Prefer not to rely on the installed script? Use the module form:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kira-mcp": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "kira_mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart your host. All kira-mcp tools will appear under the kira-mcp namespace.

Cursor / Cline / Continue / Windsurf

Identical shape — point the host's MCP server config at kira-mcp (or python -m kira_mcp).

Tools

Vision

Mouse

Keyboard

Key names accept any value from pyautogui.KEYBOARD_KEYS, plus common aliases (ctrl, alt, shift, cmd/command, win/windows/super, meta, esc/escape, enter/return, space/spacebar, pgup/pageup, pgdn/pagedown, del, ins).

Screen

Clipboard

Typical agent loop

perceive_screen()                             # → annotated JPEG inline + JSON: {width, height, elements: [{id, bbox, cx, cy, confidence}, …]}
# agent picks an element by id, reads its (cx, cy) — already in absolute screen pixels
mouse_click(x=cx, y=cy)
perceive_screen()                             # verify the action landed

One tool to look, one tool to act, repeat until done.

Layout

src/kira_mcp/
├── __main__.py        # entry — `python -m kira_mcp` or `kira-mcp`
├── _mcp.py            # shared FastMCP instance + system instructions
├── lib/
│   └── keys.py        # key-name normalization for pyautogui
└── tools/
    ├── __init__.py    # side-effect imports → registers tools
    ├── parse.py       # `perceive_screen` — screenshot + local YOLO icon-detector
    ├── screen.py      # `screen_size` + the `Region` model
    ├── mouse.py
    ├── keyboard.py
    └── clipboard.py

Add a new tool by writing a function decorated with @mcp.tool() (imported from kira_mcp._mcp) and importing the module from tools/__init__.py.

Local development

pip install -e .
python -m kira_mcp        # stdio server — drive it from your MCP host

Safety

pyautogui.FAILSAFE is enabled at startup — slamming the mouse to the top-left corner raises FailSafeException and aborts whatever the agent was doing. Leave it on. The server explicitly does not expose a way to disable it from tool calls.

Wayland note

On Linux Wayland sessions, raw X11 screen grabs return a black buffer. GNOME Wayland additionally blocks programmatic screenshots from unprivileged callers. If perceive_screen returns a black image (or no detections at all), log in to an X11 session, or switch to a Wayland compositor that ships wlr-screencopy (Hyprland, Sway, river, Niri) or a KDE Plasma session.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.