When I started using Claude Code as my primary development partner, I quickly discovered that while Claude is brilliant at reading and writing code, it's essentially blind and deaf when it comes to the rest of my computer. It can't see what's on my screen, can't click a button in a desktop app, can't tell me what a dialog box says. So I set out to fix that.

The tools in this section are lightweight, purpose-built utilities that bridge the gap between Claude's text-based world and my graphical Windows desktop. They're designed to be called through the MCP (Model Context Protocol) server I run alongside Claude Code, giving it a set of eyes and hands it wouldn't otherwise have.

Each tool follows the same philosophy: do one thing, do it well, and keep the output small enough to fit comfortably in a conversation. No frameworks, no bloat, no unnecessary dependencies.

LookHere

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 3/29/2026		Page Views: 141
Hashtags: #Windows #Claude #MCP #NET #Win32 #LookHere #Screenshot #Grayscale #JPEG #PrintWindow
A lightweight .NET command-line tool that captures any Windows application window as a compact grayscale JPEG screenshot for Claude.
Estimated reading time: 3 minute(s) (671 words)

LookHere is a lightweight .NET command-line utility that captures any Windows application window as a compact grayscale JPEG screenshot. I built it specifically so that Claude, working through the AI-Bridge MCP server, could actually see what's happening on my screen--something that turns out to be surprisingly tricky to do well within the constraints of MCP tool results.