Use Captures for local context capture.

Captures lives in the macOS menu bar. It captures the active app, writes screenshot plus readable context to the clipboard, and keeps the local files available when the clipboard is not enough.

Install

The native installer is not available for end-user installation yet. This page will publish the install command after the exact package passes the macOS release gate.

Native release pending. Installation will be available after the installer passes signing, notarization, stapling, and Gatekeeper acceptance.

Capture

Use the menu bar item or the configured double-modifier shortcut. Captures tracks the last non-Captures app so the menu can stay open without becoming the captured target.

Order of operations: save local history, write the pasteboard bundle, then optionally focus a target app.

Files

Every saved capture is plain local state under Application Support.

screenshot.pngpixel state

capture.jsonnormalized envelope

context.jsonsemantic summary

metadata.jsonsource and provenance

updates.jsonlevent trail

ax.txtaccessibility text

Targets

Settings can hand off after capture. Codex receives the copied bundle through its paste path; ChatGPT, Cursor, and Chrome are focus-only until their attachment paths are verified.

Agents

Agents should use Captures when native visual state and AX context are the proof surface. Headless workflows should use the Captures CLI configured on the same trusted workstation and keep every archive local.

Limits

V1 is local-only. There is no account, upload, cloud sync, shared web history, or iOS client in this build. The docs should stay as literal as the app.