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io.github.hurleysk/can-see

Let AI agents see and interact with terminal/CLI apps via PNG screenshots

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install can see in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-cols",
      "description": "DEFAULT_COLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "default-rows",
      "description": "DEFAULT_ROWS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "idle-timeout-ms",
      "description": "IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "can-see": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "can-see"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEFAULT_COLS": "${input:default-cols}",
        "DEFAULT_ROWS": "${input:default-rows}",
        "IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS": "${input:idle-timeout-ms}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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