# peek-mcp

> Let AI agents see your UI — point at elements, annotate, and get instant visual context for AI-powered code editing.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/peek-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/zly1203/peek
- repository: https://github.com/zly1203/peek
- version: 0.5.17
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:peek-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Peek

Point at your UI. Your AI agent sees it.

<p align="center">
  <img src="peek-demo.gif" alt="Peek demo: point at a UI element, agent sees it" width="720">
</p>

## Why

AI coding agents can edit code, but they can't see your page. You end up describing layouts in words, copy-pasting HTML, or dragging screenshots into chat.

Peek fixes this. Your AI agent can screenshot any local page on its own. You can also point at specific elements with a bookmarklet, and the agent gets the screenshot plus element data (selectors, styles, bounding boxes).

## Contents

- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
  - [Claude Code (CLI or VS Code)](#claude-code-cli-or-vs-code)
  - [Upgrading](#upgrading)
  - [Other MCP clients (experimental)](#other-mcp-clients-experimental)
  - [Tell your agent your dev port](#recommended-tell-your-agent-your-dev-port)
  - [Use it](#use-it)
- [Supported URLs](#supported-urls)
- [MCP Tools](#mcp-tools)
- [How It Works](#how-it-works)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
- [Limitations](#limitations)
- [CLI](#cli)

## Quick Start

### Claude Code (CLI or VS Code)

```bash
# 1. Install uv (one-time, manages Python for you)
brew install uv
# or: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# 2. Install peek (uv auto-downloads a compatible Python)
uv tool install peek-mcp

# 3. One-shot setup
peek setup
```

`peek setup` is one-shot: installs Playwright Chromium, registers Peek as an MCP server in Claude Code (user scope, all projects), drops the bookmarklet page at `~/.peek/bookmarklet.html` and opens it in your browser. Drag the blue button to your bookmark bar and you're done; the command exits on its own. Nothing to keep running.

From then on: **open Claude Code and use it normally.** It auto-launches Peek in the background whenever the agent uses a Peek tool.

> Using pip directly? `pip install peek-mcp` works too, but requires Python 3.10+ already installed. `uv tool install` avoids the version-mismatch headache.

### Upgrading

```bash
uv tool …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.browser-automation (0.836, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/peek-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:25:58.217Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/peek-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/peek-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:peek-mcp