hypruse MCP server

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hypruse

Computer use for Hyprland. An MCP server that gives AI agents native hands on your Wayland desktop: workspaces, windows, mouse, keyboard, screenshots.

No ydotool daemon. No root. No portals. No X11.

Why

Computer use exists on macOS and Windows. On Linux there is effectively nothing: the Claude Desktop Linux beta explicitly ships without screen control, Anthropic's reference implementation is an X11 container, and the existing Wayland attempts lean on setuid uinput hacks or GNOME-only portals.

Meanwhile Hyprland already exposes everything an agent needs, better than any accessibility bridge: a complete IPC surface for state and window management, and first-class Wayland protocols for input. hypruse just wires them to MCP:

• Semantic first. desktop returns the real window/workspace tree (addresses, classes, titles, geometry) in one call. The agent switches workspaces and focuses windows the way you do (instantly, over IPC), not by squinting at pixels.
• Vision when it matters. Screenshots of a monitor, an exact window crop, or a zoomed region, with the geometry/scale metadata to map any pixel back to a clickable coordinate: a coarse-to-fine loop grounded in the GUI-agents research.
• Native input. Clicks and scrolls are spoken directly over the Wayland wire (zwlrvirtualpointer_v1); typing goes through wtype's virtual keyboard with a proper XKB keymap, unicode-safe on any layout.

How it works

agent (Claude Code, or any MCP client)
   │ stdio
   ▼
hypruse
   ├── hyprctl -j ········▶ desktop state: monitors, workspaces, windows, layers
   ├── hyprctl dispatch ··▶ focus / move / close / launch / movecursor
   ├── grim ··············▶ screenshots: monitor, window crop, region
   ├── busctl (AT-SPI) ···▶ accessibility tree: named controls, current
   │                        values, exact coords (ui / marks / click_ui)
   ├── wtype ·············▶ keyboard (zwp_virtual_keyboard_v1, real XKB keymap)
   └── raw Wayland wire ··▶ click & scroll (zwlr_virtual_pointer_v1)

Optional binaries gate two more tools: imagemagick draws the numbered overlay for marks, and wl-clipboard backs the opt-in clipboard tool.

Design decisions:

• No ydotool / uinput. That path needs a daemon, udev rules or root, and types US scancodes that break on other layouts. hypruse is just another Wayland client of your compositor, same standing as wlrctl.
• No portals. xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland does not implement the RemoteDesktop portal (InputCapture is capture, not injection), so anything built on libei/portals silently degrades on Hyprland. hypruse doesn't try.
• Cursor positioning through the compositor's own cursor dispatcher (global logical coordinates, exact on any monitor layout), with only button/axis events on the virtual pointer, sidestepping the known multi-monitor bugs of absolute virtual-pointer motion (hyprwm/Hyprland#6749).

Tools

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.