visualizer

A command for checking Peekaboo's on-screen feedback animations, including the agent cursor, input display, and capture indicators. Peekaboo is the app that shows these visual overlays.

In plain words
What is it for?
For manually testing Peekaboo's overlay animations, with an optional JSON output file.
Why use it?
It lets you confirm that the visual feedback appears and that the visualizer service is available.

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/visualizer
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 335 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 $0.00335
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7b0570fddae6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visualizer 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/visualizer.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

peekaboo visualizer

Runs a lightweight smoke sequence for the three v4 visualizer surfaces: the agent cursor, app-anchored input HUD, and capture indicators.

These are three feedback categories, not the complete settings surface: Peekaboo.app also has a visualizer master switch, a menu-bar app-icons switch, and playback controls.

What it does

  • Connects to the visualizer host (typically Peekaboo.app)
  • Emits representative cursor, input HUD, and capture-indicator events

Usage

peekaboo visualizer
peekaboo visualizer --json > .artifacts/playground-tools/visualizer.json

Notes

  • This is primarily a manual visual check: success means the command exits 0, dispatches all visualizer events, and you can see the overlay sequence render.
  • The smoke command deliberately previews overlays. Production targeted background input never emits cursor or input-HUD overlays, even when the target window is visible or frontmost; only untargeted or explicitly foreground input may show them.
  • If the visualizer host is not available, the command fails fast instead of pacing through the full animation sequence.
  • If nothing appears, verify:
    • Peekaboo.app is running and reachable
    • permissions are granted (peekaboo permissions status)
    • your screen isn’t being captured by another app that blocks overlays
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 · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7b0570fddae6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

visualizer 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 335 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.