peekaboo

peekaboo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,704 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of peekaboo, MIT.

A command-line tool for controlling and inspecting macOS apps and windows. It can capture screenshots, inspect interface elements, send mouse and keyboard actions, and check required permissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate clicks, typing, dragging, hotkeys, screenshots, window management, app inspection, and permission checks on macOS.
Why use it?
It lets an agent interact with graphical Mac applications when terminal commands alone are not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to automate clicks, typing, dragging, hotkeys, screenshots, window management, app inspection, and permission checks on macOS.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/peekaboo
About the project

Bitterbot is a local-first personal AI agent that runs on a user’s devices, keeps persistent memories, performs tasks, and can exchange reusable skills with other agents. It is intended for people who want a personal assistant that remains available across conversations and activities. The catalogue entries provide instructions and agents for working with Bitterbot.

Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop · 2,461 stars · on GitHub · bitterbot.ai

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.

Any agent
npx skills add Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop --skill peekaboo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,704 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00064 $0.01704
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00852
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00341
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00170

Measured 10d ago against content hash f66aaef2fc60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peekaboo 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to peekaboo — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/peekaboo/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Peekaboo

Peekaboo is a full macOS UI automation CLI: capture/inspect screens, target UI elements, drive input, and manage apps/windows/menus. Commands share a snapshot cache and support --json/-j for scripting. Run peekaboo or peekaboo <cmd> --help for flags; peekaboo --version prints build metadata. Tip: run via polter peekaboo to ensure fresh builds.

Features (all CLI capabilities, excluding agent/MCP)

Core

  • bridge: inspect Peekaboo Bridge host connectivity
  • capture: live capture or video ingest + frame extraction
  • clean: prune snapshot cache and temp files
  • config: init/show/edit/validate, providers, models, credentials
  • image: capture screenshots (screen/window/menu bar regions)
  • learn: print the full agent guide + tool catalog
  • list: apps, windows, screens, menubar, permissions
  • permissions: check Screen Recording/Accessibility status
  • run: execute .peekaboo.json scripts
  • sleep: pause execution for a duration
  • tools: list available tools with filtering/display options

Interaction

  • click: target by ID/query/coords with smart waits
  • drag: drag & drop across elements/coords/Dock
  • hotkey: modifier combos like cmd,shift,t
  • move: cursor positioning with optional smoothing
  • paste: set clipboard -> paste -> restore
  • press: special-key sequences with repeats
  • scroll: directional scrolling (targeted + smooth)
  • swipe: gesture-style drags between targets
  • type: text + control keys (--clear, delays)

System

  • app: launch/quit/relaunch/hide/unhide/switch/list apps
  • clipboard: read/write clipboard (text/images/files)
  • dialog: click/input/file/dismiss/list system dialogs
  • dock: launch/right-click/hide/show/list Dock items
  • menu: click/list application menus + menu extras
  • menubar: list/click status bar items
  • open: enhanced open with app targeting + JSON payloads
  • space: list/switch/move-window (Spaces)
  • visualizer: exercise Peekaboo visual feedback animations
  • window: close/minimize/maximize/move/resize/focus/list

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 10d ago First seen · 191 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A f66aaef2fc60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peekaboo is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bitterbot-AI/bitterbot-desktop (2,461 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,704 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to peekaboo, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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