peekaboo

peekaboo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JansenAnalytics/claudex. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,683 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of peekaboo, MIT.

A macOS user-interface automation command-line tool for inspecting screens and controlling apps, windows, menus, and other visible interface elements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture screenshots, inspect UI elements, click, drag, send keyboard shortcuts, manage windows, check permissions, and run automation scripts.
Why use it?
It lets scripts interact with graphical macOS applications when no direct command-line interface is available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

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 skills/jansenanalytics/claudex/peekaboo
Any agent
npx skills add JansenAnalytics/claudex --skill peekaboo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JansenAnalytics/claudex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for peekaboo

README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,683 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% 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 $0.00017 $0.01683
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00168

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a60289c0ed0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to peekaboo — 3 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 · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 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 · 194 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 · 194 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 7a60289c0ed0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peekaboo is a skill published in the GitHub repository JansenAnalytics/claudex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,683 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to peekaboo, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.