{ "SchemaVersion": "1", "Kind": "DirectoryIssues", "Slug": "macos-mcp-jeomon", "Name": "macOS-MCP", "CanonicalUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/macos-mcp-jeomon/issues", "ServerUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/macos-mcp-jeomon", "IssueTotal": 17, "Held": 17, "Issues": [ { "Title": "MacOs MCP troubleshoot", "Excerpt": "Title: MacOS-MCP works manually but disconnects immediately in Claude Desktop\n\nHello,\n\nI tested MacOS-MCP on macOS with Claude Desktop and found the following behavior:\n\nWhat works:\n\n* `uv` is installed correctly\n* `uv run macos-mcp` works in Terminal\n* manual MCP handshake works\n* `initialize` works\n* `tools/list` works and returns the tool list\n\nWhat fails:\n\n* when Claude Desktop starts the server, it logs:\n\n * `Server started and connected successfully`\n * then `Failed to spawn process: No ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/1", "PublishedAt": "2026-04-08T17:00:16.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 5, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "unresolvable Accessibility permission loop on versions below 0.3.10", "Excerpt": "[macos-mcp-accessibility-writeup.md](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/30595137/macos-mcp-accessibility-writeup.md)\n\nSymptoms\n\nThe macos-mcp server appears in Claude, then immediately disconnects. The log repeats:\n\nMissing permissions: Accessibility.\nRequired permissions not granted.\nServer transport closed unexpectedly\n\nA System Settings window opens on its own, landing on Privacy & Security > Accessibility.\n\nThe stumbling block\n\nThe error says to grant Accessibility permission, but nev", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/32", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T15:42:04.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Published Claude Desktop extension is v0.1.0 — ships the (already-fixed) EventObserver memory leak", "Excerpt": "## Correction\n\nApologies — I filed this against the **v0.1.0** build published as the Claude Desktop\nextension (`ant.dir.gh.cursortouch.macos-mcp`) without first checking `main`. The\nautorelease-pool leak described below is **already fixed in `main`** (now v0.3.7) by:\n\n- `5f80964` — fix: plug AXObserver memory leak in EventObserver\n- `d382a18` — fix: drain autorelease pools on secondary AX threads\n\nSo there is no leak to fix in the current source. Leaving this open only for the part that\nis stil", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/19", "PublishedAt": "2026-06-19T22:39:13.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Claude Desktop extension bundle is pinned at 0.3.8 while PyPI ships 0.3.17 (recurrence of #19)", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe Claude Desktop extension (`ant.dir.gh.cursortouch.macos-mcp`) currently installs **0.3.8**, while PyPI ships **0.3.17**. This is a recurrence of #19, where the published extension was stuck at v0.1.0.\n\n## Why users cannot work around it\n\nThe bundle vendors its own source rather than resolving from PyPI:\n\n```\n# uv.lock\nname = \"macos-mcp\"\nversion = \"0.3.8\"\nsource = { editable = \".\" }\n```\n\nBecause `uv --directory run macos-mcp serve` resolves the package to the bundle's own `s", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/57", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-16T19:13:26.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Notification tool fails for any non-ASCII text (CJK, emoji): AppleScript can't parse \\uXXXX escapes", "Excerpt": "**Symptom:**\n`Notification(message=\"通知测试\")` returns:\n`Failed to send notification: 33:34: syntax error: Expected \"\"\" but found unknown token. (-2741)`\nASCII-only messages work fine.\n\n**Root cause:** `Desktop.notify` in `desktop/service.py` builds the AppleScript with `json.dumps(message)`. `json.dumps` defaults to `ensure_ascii=True`, so non-ASCII characters are emitted as `\\uXXXX` escapes — which AppleScript string literals don't support (only `\\\"`, `\\\\`, `\\n`, `\\t`, `\\r`).\n\n**Fix (verified loc", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/27", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-10T16:16:26.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Extension exits at startup under Claude Desktop: AXIsProcessTrusted() is always False because the host spawns MCP servers with disclaimed responsibility", "Excerpt": "**Environment:** macOS 26 (Tahoe), Claude Desktop, extension v0.3.8 from the Anthropic registry, uv 0.7.2.\n\n**Symptom:** The extension shows \"Server disconnected\" immediately after install. Log: `Required permissions not granted: Accessibility. ... sys.exit(1)` — even though the Claude app has Accessibility granted in System Settings.\n\n**Root cause:** Claude Desktop launches extension servers through `/Applications/Claude.app/Contents/Helpers/disclaimer`, which disclaims TCC responsibility. The ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/26", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-10T16:16:24.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "**Bug: Accessibility permission dialog rejects the bundled Python interpreter (macOS Apple Silicon)**", "Excerpt": "**Bug: Accessibility permission dialog rejects the bundled Python interpreter (macOS Apple Silicon)**\n\nEnvironment:\n- macOS, Apple Silicon (M-series)\n- Claude Desktop, extension installed via official directory\n- uv 0.11.26 installed, `uv run macos-mcp serve` connects successfully via MCP protocol\n- Server logs show \"Missing permissions: Accessibility\" and fails to stay connected\n\nWhat I tried (all unsuccessful):\n1. Adding the app via System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility > \"+\"\n ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/22", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-07T07:10:16.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "v0.3.7 has three issues that prevent it from running as a Claude Desktop extension", "Excerpt": "**Title:** v0.3.7 has three issues that prevent it from running as a Claude Desktop extension\n\n**Environment**\n- macOS 26.2 (Tahoe), Apple Silicon (M1 Pro)\n- Claude Desktop 1.11187.1\n- uv 0.11.7\n- Installed by extracting the v0.3.7 source tarball into Claude Desktop's extension folder (no pre-built `.mcpb` available for this release)\n\nThree independent issues surface in sequence. I worked around all three with local patches — sharing in case you'd like to fix them upstream.\n\n---\n\n### 1. `manifes", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/12", "PublishedAt": "2026-06-05T21:42:55.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Shell tool child processes inherit the MCP stdin stream, hanging the client indefinitely", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`ExecuteCommand` in `src/macos_mcp/ax/core.py` spawns commands with `subprocess.run(capture_output=True, ...)` and **no `stdin=` argument**, so the child inherits fd 0.\n\nUnder the stdio transport, fd 0 *is* the JSON-RPC request stream. Any command that reads stdin — `sudo` prompting for a password, `ssh`, `git` asking for credentials, `brew`/`npm` confirmation prompts, a bare `cat` — consumes the client's protocol messages. The server never sees those requests, so it never replies, a", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/30", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-24T20:05:55.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Feature request: ship a code-signed + notarized release so TCC attributes access to one named entity", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nPlease distribute macOS-MCP as a **Developer ID code-signed and notarized** build — ideally a small bundled helper `.app` with a proper `Info.plist` (CFBundleIdentifier / CFBundleName / CFBundleDisplayName) and an icon — with a **stable signing identity** across releases.\n\nAs shipped today (run via ad-hoc-signed Homebrew `uv` → `python3` → the `Shell` tool spawning `node`/`git`), the server's privacy grants show up in **System Settings → Privacy & Security** as multiple bare, icon-le", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/25", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-09T09:21:51.000Z", "State": "open", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Snapshot/screenshot fails on macOS 15+: CGWindowListCreateImage returns NULL (\"cannot identify image file\")", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe `Snapshot` tool (with `use_vision=true`) and any other screenshot path fails on modern macOS with:\n\n```\nError calling tool 'Snapshot': cannot identify image file '/tmp/tmpXXXXXXXX.png'\n```\n\nEven with Screen Recording permission fully granted to the host app.\n\n## Root cause\n\n`CaptureScreen()` in `src/macos_mcp/ax/core.py` uses `Quartz.CGWindowListCreateImage`. Apple deprecated `CGWindowListCreateImage` in macOS 14.4, and on macOS 15 (Sequoia) and later it returns `NULL` unless the", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/23", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-07T14:24:20.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Bug: SyntaxError on startup — misplaced variable assignment in published wheel", "Excerpt": "### Description\nuvx macos-mcp fails immediately with a SyntaxError in the published PyPI wheel. The variable _SCRAPE_MAX_CHARS = 20_000 is positioned between the @mcp.tool(...) decorator and its target function scrape_tool, which is invalid Python syntax. The decorator must be immediately followed by the function definition.\n\n### To reproduce\nuv cache clean\nuvx macos-mcp\n\n### Error output\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \".../bin/macos-mcp\", line 6, in \n from macos_mcp.__main", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/9", "PublishedAt": "2026-05-29T12:04:26.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "0.3.6 is broken on import — @mcp.tool decorator placed above assignment, not function", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`macos-mcp` 0.3.6 (current PyPI latest) cannot be imported. Any client that spawns it dies immediately with a `SyntaxError` before serving a single tool call. 0.3.5 is unaffected.\n\n## Repro\n\n```\n$ uvx --from 'macos-mcp==0.3.6' macos-mcp --help\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \".../bin/macos-mcp\", line 6, in \n from macos_mcp.__main__ import main\n File \".../site-packages/macos_mcp/__main__.py\", line 431\n _SCRAPE_MAX_CHARS = 20_000\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\nSyntaxErr", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/8", "PublishedAt": "2026-05-27T14:04:44.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Memory leak in `_update_observers` (events.py:363) — AX observer refs accumulate at ~10–17 MB/min physical footprint", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`macos-mcp` exhibits a steady, linear physical footprint leak when AX-tree-reading tools are exercised in long-running sessions. Growth rate is roughly **10–17 MB/min** of activity, and the process never releases memory after the calling client stops invoking tools. On a 32 GB host left running over a couple of days, the process climbed to ~16.5 GB physical footprint and contributed to a system-level OOM. With an external watchdog reaping the process at 400 MB, we observe repeated re", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/7", "PublishedAt": "2026-05-27T01:16:48.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "AX polling stalls focused Chrome on every navigation — 1-2s system-wide freeze", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe macos-mcp server holds an `AXObserver` registration on the focused\nwindow via `AXObserverAddNotification`. When that focused window is\n**Google Chrome** and the user navigates to a new page (or switches\ntabs), Chrome rebuilds its accessibility tree, fires AX notifications,\nand the MCP synchronously walks the new tree. Walking Chrome's AX tree\ntakes ~1-2 seconds and during that time the entire UI freezes\n(WindowServer waits for AX RPCs).\n\nThis is reproducible on every page load, e", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/5", "PublishedAt": "2026-05-05T07:19:04.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "macos-mcp instances at launch bug", "Excerpt": "# Bug Report: Claude Desktop spawns duplicate macos-mcp instances at launch, causing severe memory pressure\n\n## Summary\n\nClaude Desktop launches 4 simultaneous instances of the `macos-mcp` extension on startup, despite only one extension registration existing in any user-editable config. The duplication consumes ~17 GB of memory and saturates CPU, making mid-tier Macs (24 GB RAM) unusable until manually killed.\n\n## Severity\n\n**High.** On a 24 GB MacBook Pro M4, the 4× MCP duplication consumes 70", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/CursorTouch/MacOS-MCP/issues/4", "PublishedAt": "2026-05-04T09:27:12.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Anthropic MCP Directory Review — MacOS MCP", "Excerpt": "Hi from Anthropic 👋\n\nWe reviewed MacOS MCP for inclusion in the Anthropic MCP Directory. We found several items that need to be addressed before we can list the server.\n\n## Required\n\n1. **Process execution pattern** — We observed that the `ExecuteCommand` tool runs user-supplied input via `subprocess.run(..., shell=True)` in shell mode, which allows arbitrary command execution through shell metacharacters. 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