peekaboo

peekaboo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from metaspartan/cybara. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,616 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of peekaboo, MIT.

A macOS command-line tool for viewing screens and app windows, finding interface elements, and controlling clicks, typing, dragging, menus, and other user-interface actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for taking screenshots, inspecting apps and windows, checking required permissions, and running saved macOS automation scripts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform repetitive Mac interface actions by hand. Its scripting and JSON output also support repeatable automation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for taking screenshots, inspecting apps and windows, checking required permissions, and running saved macOS automation scripts.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo
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 metaspartan/cybara --skill peekaboo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/metaspartan/cybara

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for peekaboo

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/metaspartan/cybara/peekaboo.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,616 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 100% 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 $0.01616
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00808
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00162

Measured 9d ago against content hash c7e4021c1f3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d 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

100% identical to peekaboo — 39 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 · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 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 · 154 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. 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A c7e4021c1f3b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peekaboo is a skill published in the GitHub repository metaspartan/cybara (30 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,616 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to peekaboo, differing in 39 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

composio-webapp-testing

Toolkit for interacting with and testing local web applications using Playwright. Supports verifying frontend functionality, debugging UI behavior, capturing browser screenshots, and viewing browser logs.

KornLabs/truss · 38 tokens

agent-browser

Automates browser interactions for web testing, form filling, screenshots, and data extraction. Use when the user needs to navigate websites, interact with web pages, fill forms, take screenshots, test web applications, or extract information from web pages.

vercel-labs/open-agents · 51 tokens

computer-use

Read and drive native desktop applications through the accessibility layer — list on-screen apps, snapshot one window as a numbered element tree, then click / type / set a value / scroll / drag / run a named action, by element index or by screen coordinates. Use for work in a desktop app rather than a web page. Full…

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 105 tokens

feature-demo-recording

Record a demo video of a web feature from a real browser. Two modes -- a NARRATED film where measured voiceover drives the timeline (designed slides, subtitles, punch-in camera, rendered from an HTML timeline), and a SILENT evidence clip for a PR or a QA pass. Use when the user asks to record a video, demo, or screen…

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 90 tokens

browser-recording

Record a browser flow as a video/GIF for evidence — animations, transitions, and multi-step interactions that a still screenshot cannot prove. Drives the project's own Playwright through a bundled runner, then converts to mp4 + GIF via ffmpeg. Use when the user asks to record a demo, capture a GIF or video of the UI…

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 85 tokens

web-browse

Open a REAL external web page so the user can see it in Kiro Crew's Browser panel. PRIMARY path is the browser MCP tool (drives the built-in native panel); playwright-cli is the fallback for remote/plain-browser sessions and for attached logged-in browsers. Use when the user wants to VIEW / verify / "show me" an…

kirodotdev/KiroCrew · 93 tokens