🪟 Windows-MCP

Windows-MCP is a lightweight, open-source project that enables seamless integration between AI agents and the Windows operating system. Acting as an MCP server bridges the gap between LLMs and the Windows operating system, allowing agents to perform tasks such as file navigation, application control, UI interaction, QA testing, and more.

mcp-name: io.github.CursorTouch/Windows-MCP

Updates

• Added VM support for Windows-MCP. Check (windowsmcp.io)[https://windowsmcp.io/] for more details.
• Windows-MCP reached 2M+ Users in Claude Desktop Extensiosn.
• Try out 🪟Windows-Use, an agent built using Windows-MCP.
• Windows-MCP is now available on PyPI (thus supports uvx windows-mcp)
• Windows-MCP is added to MCP Registry

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 7
• Windows 8, 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

🎥 Demos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d0e7ed1d-6189-4de6-838a-5ef8e1cad54e

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d2b372dc-8d00-4d71-9677-4c64f5987485

✨ Key Features

• Seamless Windows Integration
  Interacts natively with Windows UI elements, opens apps, controls windows, simulates user input, and more.

• Use Any LLM (Vision Optional) Unlike many automation tools, Windows-MCP doesn't rely on any traditional computer vision techniques or specific fine-tuned models; it works with any LLMs, reducing complexity and setup time.

• Rich Toolset for UI Automation
  Includes tools for basic keyboard, mouse operation and capturing window/UI state.

• Lightweight & Open-Source
  Minimal dependencies and easy setup with full source code available under MIT license.

• Customizable & Extendable
  Easily adapt or extend tools to suit your unique automation or AI integration needs.

• Real-Time Interaction
  Typical latency between actions (e.g., from one mouse click to the next) ranges from 0.2 to 0.9 secs, and may slightly vary based on the number of active applications and system load, also the inferencing speed of the llm.

• DOM Mode for Browser Automation
  Special use_dom=True mode for State-Tool that focuses exclusively on web page content, filtering out browser UI elements for cleaner, more efficient web automation.

🛠️Installation

Note: When you install this MCP server for the first time it may take a minute or two because of installing the dependencies in pyproject.toml. In the first run the server may timeout ignore it and restart it.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.13+
• UV (Package Manager) from Astra, install with pip install uv or curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
• English as the default language in Windows preferred else disable the App-Tool in the MCP Server for Windows with other languages.

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/mcpb

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "windows-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

git clone https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP.git
cd Windows-MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<path to the windows-mcp directory>",
        "run",
        "windows-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\.local\\bin\\windows-mcp.exe",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\.local\\bin\\uvx.exe",
      "args": ["windows-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\.local\\bin\\uv.exe",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "C:\\path\\to\\Windows-MCP",
        "run",
        "windows-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

git clone https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP.git

cd Windows-MCP

{
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": [
    "windows-mcp"
  ]
}

{
  "command": "uv",
  "args": [
    "--directory",
    "<path to the windows-mcp directory>",
    "run",
    "windows-mcp"
  ]
}

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli

{
  "theme": "Default",
  ...
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "windows-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "windows-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

npm install -g @openai/codex

[mcp_servers.windows-mcp]
command="uvx"
args=[
  "windows-mcp"
]

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

claude mcp add --transport stdio windows-mcp -- uvx windows-mcp

git clone https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP.git
cd Windows-MCP

claude mcp add --transport stdio windows-mcp -- uv --directory "<path>" run windows-mcp

claude mcp add --transport stdio windows-mcp -- C:\Users\<user>\.local\bin\uvx.exe windows-mcp

irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex

claude mcp add windows-mcp --transport stdio -s user -- powershell.exe -Command "C:\Users\<user>\.local\bin\uvx.exe windows-mcp"

🖥️ Running Windows-MCP

Windows-MCP runs directly on your Windows machine and exposes its tools to the connected MCP client.

# Runs with stdio transport (default)
uvx windows-mcp

# Or with SSE/Streamable HTTP for network access
uvx windows-mcp --transport sse --host localhost --port 8000
uvx windows-mcp --transport streamable-http --host localhost --port 8000

Optional environment variables can be set to customize behavior — see Environment Variables below.

Transport Options

⚙️ Environment Variables

All variables are optional unless noted. Set them via the env key in claude_desktop_config.json (or your MCP client's equivalent config).

Screenshot & Snapshot

Telemetry

Debug

Example claude_desktop_config.json configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "windows-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WINDOWS_MCP_SCREENSHOT_SCALE": "0.5",
        "WINDOWS_MCP_SCREENSHOT_BACKEND": "auto",
        "WINDOWS_MCP_PROFILE_SNAPSHOT": "false",
        "ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY": "true",
        "WINDOWS_MCP_DEBUG": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

🔨MCP Tools

MCP Client can access the following tools to interact with Windows:

• Click: Click on the screen at the given coordinates.
• Type: Type text on an element (optionally clears existing text).
• Scroll: Scroll vertically or horizontally on the window or specific regions.
• Move: Move mouse pointer or drag (set drag=True) to coordinates.
• Shortcut: Press keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+c, Alt+Tab, etc).
• Wait: Pause for a defined duration.
• Screenshot: Fast screenshot-first desktop capture with cursor position, active/open windows, and an image. Skips UI tree extraction for speed and should be the default first call when you mainly need visual context. Supports display=[0] or display=[0,1] to capture specific screens.
• Snapshot: Full desktop state capture for workflows that need interactive element ids, scrollable regions, or use_dom=True browser extraction. Supports use_vision=True for including screenshots and display=[0] or display=[0,1] for limiting all returned Snapshot information to specific screens.
• App: To launch an application from the start menu, resize or move the window and switch between apps.
• Shell: To execute PowerShell commands.
• Scrape: To scrape the entire webpage for information.
• MultiSelect: Select multiple items (files, folders, checkboxes) with optional Ctrl key. Uses bulk label-to-coordinate resolution when labels are provided.
• MultiEdit: Enter text into multiple input fields at specified coordinates. Uses bulk label-to-coordinate resolution when labels are provided.
• Clipboard: Read or set Windows clipboard content.
• Process: List running processes or terminate them by PID or name.
• Notification: Send a Windows toast notification with a title and message.
• Registry: Read, write, delete, or list Windows Registry values and keys.

Performance Notes

MultiSelect and MultiEdit now resolve label-based coordinates in bulk through Desktop.get_coordinates_from_labels, which avoids repeated lookups against the desktop tree state.

PR benchmark (mock-based):

• Iterative: 0.003578s
• Bulk: 0.002238s
• Improvement: ~37.45%

In a local Windows benchmark with a synthetic tree state and 35,000 label resolutions per run, the measured results were:

• Iterative: 0.005895s
• Bulk: 0.002825s
• Improvement: 52.09%

In a local desktop runtime check (live Windows state capture path), the measured averages were:

• FindElement-like (use_vision=False, use_annotation=False): 0.5507s
• Snapshot-like (use_vision=True, use_annotation=True): 0.6717s
• Relative gain for lighter lookup path: ~18.01%

You can reproduce the comparison with:

python scripts/benchmark_multi_coordinates.py

🤝 Connect with Us

Stay updated and join our community:

• 📢 Follow us on X for the latest news and updates

• 💬 Join our Discord Community

Star History

👥 Contributors

Thanks to all the amazing people who have contributed to Windows-MCP! 🎉

We appreciate every contribution, whether it's code, documentation, bug reports, or feature suggestions. Want to contribute? Check out our Contributing Guidelines!

🔒 Security

Important: Windows-MCP operates with full system access and can perform irreversible operations. Please review our comprehensive security guidelines before deployment.

For detailed security information, including:

• Tool-specific risk assessments
• Deployment recommendations
• Vulnerability reporting procedures
• Compliance and auditing guidelines

Please read our Security Policy.

📊 Telemetry

Windows-MCP collects usage data to help improve the MCP server. No personal information, no tool arguments, no outputs are tracked.

To disable telemetry, set ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY to false in your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "windows-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "windows-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ANONYMIZED_TELEMETRY": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

See the Environment Variables section for the full list of configurable options.

For detailed information on what data is collected and how it is handled, please refer to the Telemetry and Data Privacy section in our Security Policy.

📝 Limitations

• Selecting specific sections of the text in a paragraph, as the MCP is relying on a11y tree. (⌛ Working on it.)
• Type-Tool is meant for typing text, not programming in IDE because of it types program as a whole in a file. (⌛ Working on it.)
• This MCP server can't be used to play video games 🎮.

🪪 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgements

Windows-MCP makes use of several excellent open-source projects that power its Windows automation features:

• UIAutomation

• PyAutoGUI

Huge thanks to the maintainers and contributors of these libraries for their outstanding work and open-source spirit.

🤝Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING for setup instructions and development guidelines.

Made with ❤️ by CursorTouch

Citation

@software{
  author       = {CursorTouch},
  title        = {Windows-MCP: Lightweight open-source project for integrating LLM agents with Windows},
  year         = {2024},
  publisher    = {GitHub},
  url={https://github.com/CursorTouch/Windows-MCP}
}