Capture the exact screen, window, or region you need.
desktop capture
Captures full-screen, app, window, active-window, or pixel-region screenshots.
When to use it
Use when explicitly asked for a screenshot, for whole-system captures, or when integrated capture tools are insufficient.
Ask for a screenshot; it saves the capture at the specified path or the operating system's default location.
This skill
macOS Screen Recording permission
Requests Screen Recording access
desktop screen contents
Captures your screen contents
macOS app and window state
Inspects macOS windows
$TMPDIR/codex-swift-module-cache
Writes a temporary Swift cache
macOS is one of the supported operating systems and provides app and window capture.
Linux is one of the supported operating systems.
Windows is supported through the PowerShell helper.
The macOS and Linux helper runs with Python 3.