Feature request: Appshots-style window capture (full window text including scrolled content)
Feature Request — High Priority
OpenAI Codex recently shipped a feature called Appshots that lets you attach any open window to the AI with one click — capturing the full window text including content scrolled out of view, using macOS accessibility APIs.
Current Claude Code workflow:
- Cmd+Shift+4 → drag screenshot into conversation
- Only captures visible content
- Slower, loses scrolled text
Requested:
A one-click "attach window" action in Claude Code that:
- Uses macOS accessibility APIs to capture full window text (not just a screenshot)
- Includes scrolled-out-of-view content
- Works for any app — Terminal, Xcode, Safari, logs, etc.
Why it matters:
- Developers share error logs, terminal output, and app state constantly
- Scrolled content is often the most relevant part (stack traces, etc.)
- Reduces friction significantly vs screenshot workflow
- This is a daily workflow for active Claude Code users
Prior art: @steipete (Peter Steinberger) highlighted this gap on Jun 12 — longtime Claude advocate, 387K impressions and 5.4K likes on the tweet shows clear user demand. His feedback should be taken seriously.
Technical note: This appears to be a product gap, not a technical limitation — the macOS accessibility APIs needed already exist and are widely used by dev tools. Should be a relatively small lift to implement.
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