Experimental package — This module provides a set of MCP tools to retrieve information from GitHub
Can See is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
Open InstallationWhat it does
MCP server that gives AI agents eyes on your terminal — PNG screenshots, visual diffs, GIF recording, and full keyboard/text interaction
Quickstart
# 1 — run it from where its publisher ships it
npx -y can-see
# 2 — ask your agent something
> MCP server that gives AI agents eyes on your terminal — PNG screenshots, visual diffs, GIF recording, and full keyboard/text interaction
Can See is free: there is no plan to choose, no cap to set and nothing that can bill you.
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. This one runs on your machine: your client starts Can See as a process under your own user, with your files and your network, so the tool surface below is what it can do to your computer rather than to a server somewhere else. It is scanned, signed and pinned to the version you choose — read the surface before you approve it.
This is a public server: you run it yourself and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command.
claude mcp add can-see-mcp -- npx -y can-seeReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
Nothing is required, but it can take DEFAULT_COLS, DEFAULT_ROWS, IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS if you want to set them.
One config entry your client uses to start the process locally. A local server runs with your file system and your network, which is why it is priced without metering.
21 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
Launch a CLI app in a virtual terminal. IMPORTANT: You MUST call
Takes no parameters.
Capture the terminal as a PNG image
Takes no parameters.
Capture a specific rectangular area of the visible terminal as a PNG image
Takes no parameters.
Find text in the viewport and capture the surrounding area as a PNG. Searches visible viewport only (single-line match, returns first match top-to-bottom).
Takes no parameters.
Snapshot current terminal state for later diff comparison (screenshot also auto-captures a baseline)
Takes no parameters.
Compare current terminal state against the baseline, return PNG with changed cells highlighted in red
Takes no parameters.
Query character, colors, and text attributes at a specific cell or range of cells
Takes no parameters.
Read text that has scrolled above the visible terminal viewport
Takes no parameters.
Begin capturing terminal frames for an animated GIF (frames captured on output, not fixed interval)
Takes no parameters.
Stop recording and return the captured frames as an animated GIF. If the GIF exceeds the inline size limit (~4MB), frames are automatically trimmed. If still too large, the GIF is saved to a temp file and the path is returned. Use outputPath to always save to a specific file.
Takes no parameters.
Read the terminal buffer as plain text (for programmatic assertions instead of visual screenshots)
Takes no parameters.
Wait until specific text appears in the terminal buffer (replaces sleep-and-screenshot polling)
Takes no parameters.
Wait until terminal output has been stable for a given duration. Use idleMs (default) for apps that stop producing output, or stableMs for apps with constant output like timers/spinners — stableMs compares buffer content instead of tracking raw PTY data.
Takes no parameters.
Wait until a specific color appears at a position (or anywhere in the viewport)
Takes no parameters.
Wait until the process exits and return its exit code and signal
Takes no parameters.
Send keystrokes to the app (e.g.,
Takes no parameters.
Type a string of text into the app
Takes no parameters.
Get the current process status — use to distinguish
Takes no parameters.
List all active terminal sessions
Takes no parameters.
Kill the app and clean up the session
Takes no parameters.
Kill all active sessions at once. Useful for cleanup between test runs or when sessions may have been orphaned.
Takes no parameters.
- Every tool, no call limit
- No card, no account needed
- Source published under a licence you can read
- Runs on your machine — nothing of it reaches our gateway
- Nothing to cap, because nothing bills
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable. Can See costs nothing to install and nothing to call, at any volume.
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
| Term | Level | What it prices | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability-exposure | high | capability blast radius (high) — client exposure if the model is manipulated | −6 |
| verification-discount | repo | publisher verification (public source) — no provenance, but the source is public and inspectable | −1 |
| coverage-honesty | source | inspection depth (source) — how much of the target the scan could see | −0 |
What the scan could actually read
A grade is only as meaningful as its coverage, so the scanner publishes its own depth before it publishes its result.
Tools were statically extracted from the published source (21 recovered), not enumerated from a running server. Tool-poisoning, Unicode-smuggling, capability and toxic-flow analysis ran on this inferred surface, but a mis-parsed registration could be missed or mis-attributed, so tool-derived findings are capped below “confirmed”. To grade the real runtime surface, scan the running server: --command "npx -y <package>".
Capability — what it could do if the model were manipulated
Tags derived from each tool’s schema and the implementation, not from what the tool calls itself. high is the level these add up to.
| Tool | Capability tags | Why the tag was assigned |
|---|---|---|
| launch | no tags | |
| screenshot | no tags | |
| screenshot_region | no tags | |
| screenshot_text_region | no tags | |
| capture_baseline | no tags | |
| diff_screenshot | no tags | |
| get_cell_info | no tags | |
| read_scrollback | no tags | |
| start_recording | no tags | |
| stop_recording | no tags | |
| read_text | no tags | |
| wait_for_text | no tags | |
| wait_for_idle | no tags | |
| wait_for_color | no tags | |
| wait_for_exit | no tags | |
| send_keys | no tags | |
| send_text | no tags | |
| get_process_status | no tags | |
| list_sessions | no tags | |
| close | no tags | |
| close_all | no tags |
Toxic-flow graph
The lethal trifecta, checked as a graph rather than as a checklist: untrusted input, a sensitive source and an external sink have to meet before there is a path worth worrying about.
The public result for this release does not print the flow graph, so there is nothing to show here. That is not the same as "no paths were found": what the scan did read is above, under coverage.
Supply chain and provenance
This is the first scan of this surface here, so there is nothing yet to compare it against.
Every result on this tab comes from one deterministic pass over the published package — offline, rule by rule, and auditable line by line above. Same methodology version, same bytes, same score.
Release history
Pinned to 0.5.1 — the install command below asks for that release. A pin is part of an install, so it is kept for this visit and written down when you install.
No release note was published with this version.
Only accounts with at least 50 real tool calls against this server in the last 90 days can post. Ratings are weighted by how much the reviewer actually uses it, and publishers can reply once per review.
Writing one takes an account with at least 50 real tool calls against Can See in the last 90 days. That is the whole gate — there is no other way to post, which is why the counts beside each review are worth reading.
Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes an account with 50 real tool calls against it.