Control Windows desktop via MCP: mouse, keyboard, screenshots, clipboard, and apps.
Control Windows desktop via MCP: mouse, keyboard, screenshots, clipboard, and apps. Exposed over MCP by the windows mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides desktop automation tools for Windows. Control mouse, keyboard, take screenshots, manage clipboard, and interact with applications — all through the MCP protocol.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
screenshot — Take a screenshot of the current screenzoom — Take a screenshot of a specific regionmouse_move — Move the mouse cursor to coordinatesleft_click — Left-click at coordinates or current positionright_click — Right-click at coordinatesdouble_click — Double-click at coordinatesleft_click_drag — Click and drag from one point to anotherscroll — Scroll the mouse wheeltype — Type a string of textkey — Press a key combination (e.g. ctrl+c, alt+f4)hold_key — Hold a key for a durationcursor_position — Get current cursor positionInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at windows-computer-use-mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Among the browser automation options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Windows's toolset — screenshot, zoom, mouse_move and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by hiphopanda; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Windows's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| screenshot | Take a screenshot of the current screen |
| zoom | Take a screenshot of a specific region |
| mouse_move | Move the mouse cursor to coordinates |
| left_click | Left-click at coordinates or current position |
| right_click | Right-click at coordinates |
| double_click | Double-click at coordinates |
| left_click_drag | Click and drag from one point to another |
| scroll | Scroll the mouse wheel |
| type | Type a string of text |
| key | Press a key combination (e.g. ctrl+c, alt+f4) |
| hold_key | Hold a key for a duration |
| cursor_position | Get current cursor position |
| list_running_applications | List all running apps with visible windows |
| get_frontmost_application | Get the currently focused app |
{
"mcpServers": {
"computer-use": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": ["windows-computer-use-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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