dock

A command set for controlling the macOS Dock, the bar of application icons on the desktop, through accessibility controls. It can inspect Dock items and perform selected Dock actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to launch apps, open an app icon's context menu, list pinned or running Dock items, or show and hide the Dock.
Why use it?
It avoids fragile screen-coordinate clicking and can target Dock items by the names macOS exposes to accessibility tools.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/openclaw/peekaboo/dock
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/Peekaboo
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 679 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00679
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00068

Measured 2d ago against content hash b9de25960774, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dock scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/dock.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

peekaboo dock

dock exposes Dock-specific helpers so you don’t have to rely on brittle coordinate clicks. It leverages DockServiceBridge, which uses AX to locate Dock items, right-click menus, and visibility toggles.

Subcommands

Name Purpose Key options
launch <app> Left-click a Dock icon to launch/activate it. Requires --foreground; add --verify to wait for the app to be running.
right-click Open a Dock item’s context menu (and optionally pick a menu item). Requires --foreground; use --app <Dock title> plus optional --select <title>.
hide / show Toggle Dock visibility (same as System Settings ➝ Dock & Menu Bar). Requires --foreground because this changes shared desktop UI and restarts Dock.
list Enumerate Dock items, their bundle IDs, and whether they’re running/pinned. --json prints structured info; prefer data.dock_items.

Implementation notes

  • Item resolution is AX-based, so names match what VoiceOver would read (case-sensitive). Launch and right-click open global Dock UI, while hide/show change the shared Dock preference and restart Dock; all four refuse before dispatch unless --foreground is explicit.
  • launch --verify polls for the app to appear in the running-application list before returning success.
  • right-click first finds the item, then triggers the context menu, then optionally selects --select <title>. If you omit --select, it just opens the menu (useful if you want to inspect it with see).
  • Hide/show operations update the Dock auto-hide preference and restart Dock, then verify the preference readback. The setting is reversible, but the restart is visible shared-desktop work.
  • dock list --json keeps legacy data.dockItems and also emits preferred data.dock_items.
  • Errors coming from DockServiceBridge (item not found, Dock unavailable) are mapped to structured error codes when --json is active, which helps CI detect missing icons.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b9de25960774

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dock is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/Peekaboo (5,098 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 679 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.