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io.github.CursorTouch/Windows-MCP MCP Server

An MCP Server for computer-use in Windows OS

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Published as windows-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

124 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Add optional service mode to see and handle UAC prompts (Streamline and empower autonomous agent workflows on Windows)

Feature Request: Optional Service Mode for UAC / Secure Desktop Support

Summary

Add an optional installation/run mode where Windows-MCP is hosted by a privileged Windows service running under LocalSystem, with a small user-mode broker, so the MCP can see and interact with the Secure Desktop (UAC consent prompts) and other elevated UI surfaces. Today, because the server runs as a regular user-mode process, the moment a UAC dialog fires the screenshot tools capture the dimmed wallpape

Read the thread · 2026-05-12 · open · external user · 10 comments

Server process dies silently after Windows idle/standby (v3.0.1)

Description

The Windows-MCP server process (v3.0.1) dies silently after a period of Windows inactivity (Connected Standby / Modern Standby). No error is logged on stderr, no traceback — the process simply exits, causing Claude Desktop to show the extension as "failed".

Environment

  • Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
  • Python 3.13.2
  • FastMCP 3.x (latest)
  • Claude Desktop (latest)
  • Display: 3840x2160
  • GPU: AMD RX 580

Reproduction

  1. Start Claude Desktop with Windows-MCP extension i

Read the thread · 2026-04-01 · closed · external user · 7 comments

Remote mode fails on Windows ARM64 (win_arm64) — cryptography/cffi build error

Running Windows 11 on ARM64 (Snapdragon). Remote mode is configured correctly (Sandbox ID + API Key filled in), but the extension keeps trying to build cryptography and cffi locally, which fails with:

Unsupported platform: win_arm64

The extension should NOT need local Python builds when running in remote mode. Please add ARM64 support or skip local builds entirely when mode is set to "remote".

Read the thread · 2026-03-24 · closed · external user · 8 comments

Incorrect click location

Whenever I ask it to click on a particular point, it misses - it clicks below and to the right. Below is a screenshot: I visited excalidraw, drew the black dot, changed the color to red, told it to click the black dot. Then I changed it to blue and told it to try it again. As you can see, red and blue are shifted a little to the right and down significantly.

Image

Read the thread · 2026-02-14 · closed · external user · 11 comments

[Feature Request] Support specify screen when there are multiple screens

It can improves accuracy and reduces token consumption

Read the thread · 2026-02-13 · closed · outside contributor · 10 comments

Most recent

Claude Desktop extension directory still ships 0.7.2 - is 0.8.x submitted?

The extension installed through Claude Desktop's directory is version 0.7.2 (manifest ant.dir.cursortouch.windows-mcp, downloaded late July 2026), while the latest release here is v0.8.5.

Among other things this means directory users still have the pre-refactor PowerShellExecutor, which prepends the registry PATH to the inherited PATH on every shell spawn without deduplication — doubling PATH in spawned shells (~5.4k chars on my machine) and pushing nested npm builds toward the 8,191-char c

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · external user · 1 comment

Snapshot tree traversal retries stale UIA elements after UIA_E_ELEMENTNOTAVAILABLE

Summary

Snapshot can fail or time out when a UI Automation element disappears during recursive traversal. In CachedControlHelper.get_cached_children(), a BuildUpdatedCache() failure falls back immediately to node.GetChildren() on the same element. If the element is stale, the fallback raises the same UIA_E_ELEMENTNOTAVAILABLE COM error and tree_traversal() promotes it into a window-level retry.

Observed HRESULT: -2147220991 (0x80040201, UIA_E_ELEMENTNOTAVAILABLE).

Current

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Server pins a full CPU core after the screen wakes on Windows (asyncio self-pipe dies and the event loop busy-loops)

Symptom

After the machine has been locked with the display off, moving the mouse to wake the screen makes every windows-mcp worker process immediately pin a full CPU core, permanently. Fans spin up and stay up. The process never recovers on its own; killing it is the only remedy (it then respawns clean).

Nothing is written to any log and no exception is raised.

This is easy to misread as harmless. Windows Task Manager normalizes per-process CPU across all logical cores, so a process

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

UIA returns an empty desktop when running as an MCP server (stdio and HTTP), while the identical code sees the desktop when called in-process — native x64, not #301

Summary

On a native x64 machine, Snapshot consistently reports

Focused Window:
    No active window found

Opened Windows:
    No windows found

UI Tree:
No elements

while, at the same moment, on the same machine, from the same uv cache archive, constructing Desktop() directly in a normal Python process enumerates the desktop correctly (5 windows, 55–177 interactive nodes).

So the UIA layer itself works. It goes blind specifically when the code runs as an MCP server.

This

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · external user · 2 comments

Snapshot/WaitFor tree walk deadlocks Electron host apps (VS Code) → Windows kills the MCP host; need process exclusion + per-window UIA budget

Summary

Desktop.get_state() → TreeService.get_state() walks the UI-Automation tree of the active window and every other top-level window (other_windows_handles). When one of those windows belongs to an Electron app whose main process is also hosting the MCP client (VS Code running Claude Code), the UIA traffic deadlocks that Electron main process. Windows then terminates it as hung (Event Log: Application Hang 1002 / WER AppHangB1 on Code.exe), which kills every session in the

Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · external user · 0 comments

[Bug] Snapshot crashes with UnicodeEncodeError when UI tree contains emoji (surrogate pairs)

Description

The Snapshot tool (and any tool that serializes the UI Automation tree) crashes with a UnicodeEncodeError when any UI element name/value contains an emoji character. Emoji arrive from Win32 UIA as UTF-16 surrogate pairs (e.g. U+1F437 = \ud83e\udd37), and the JSON serializer chokes on them.

This makes Snapshot completely unusable on any screen with emoji in element names — very common in practice (messaging apps with emoji nicknames, window titles with emoji, etc.).

Steps to r

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Startup race on the shared comtypes gen cache kills the server: AttributeError: module 'comtypes.gen.UIAutomationClient' has no attribute 'IUIAutomation'

Summary

On startup the server can die with:

AttributeError: module 'comtypes.gen.UIAutomationClient' has no attribute 'IUIAutomation'

The generated comtypes wrapper on disk is not corrupt, and nothing needs to be deleted to recover. The failing process imported comtypes/gen/UIAutomationClient.py while it was being regenerated by another interpreter running the same entry point. It is a startup race, which is why it is intermittent: the same install ran fine for two days befo

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 0 comments

See all 24 reports Pod holds for io.github.CursorTouch/Windows-MCP — of 124 qualified upstream.

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