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Can See runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 64 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 May 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 35 · avg 13 · -3% w/w
a month agotoday
64
Installs / week
npm · can-see
0
Stars
0 open issues
22 May 2026
Last commit
no releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Can See every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add can-see -- npx -y can-see
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "can-see": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "can-see"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.can-see]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "can-see"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "can-see": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "can-see"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "can-see": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "can-see"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: DEFAULT_COLS (Terminal width in columns (default: 120)), DEFAULT_ROWS (Terminal height in rows (default: 30)), IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS (Auto-close idle sessions after this many milliseconds (default: 300000)).

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Can See — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Can See?
Can See runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package can-see was installed 64 times last week.
How do I connect Can See?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls can-see straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Can See?
The npm package can-see was installed 64 times in the last week. Week over week that is -3%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Can See open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.