generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
status: published
source: https://github.com/tropeai/trope-cua
docs: https://github.com/tropeai/trope-cua/blob/main/docs/reference-tools.md
description: Trope publishes Trope CUA, an open-source (MIT) MCP-native computer-use agent for background
  desktop automation on Windows and macOS. It exposes target-window screenshots, accessibility trees,
  action receipts, and trajectory recording over an MCP stdio server, a long-running daemon, or direct
  CLI calls. Distributed as source (no registry package); install via the repository's platform installer
  scripts, then register with any MCP client via `trope-cua mcp-config` or point the client at `trope-cua
  mcp`. Mutating tools return structured action receipts with background_safe, cursor_moved, and foreground_changed
  fields. Tool list captured verbatim from docs/reference-tools.md. There is no hosted/remote MCP server
  for the Trope ERP-implementation platform itself.
server:
  name: trope-cua
  transport: stdio
  command: trope-cua mcp
  source: https://github.com/tropeai/trope-cua
  license: MIT
  install:
    windows: .\scripts\install-windows.ps1 -SelfContained
    macos: ./scripts/install-macos.sh
  client_config: trope-cua mcp-config [--client <name>]
tools:
- name: list_apps
  description: List installed and running apps.
- name: list_windows
  description: List top-level windows with pid, title, class, bounds, visibility, and z-order.
- name: get_window_state
  description: Return a screenshot and/or UIA tree with element_index tags.
- name: get_accessibility_tree
  description: Alias of get_window_state in ax mode for one call.
- name: screenshot
  description: Capture the virtual desktop or one target window.
- name: zoom
  description: Capture a native-resolution crop from the last target-window screenshot.
- name: get_screen_size
  description: Return virtual desktop bounds.
- name: get_cursor_position
  description: Return the real cursor position for diagnostics.
- name: click
  description: Element-indexed or pixel-addressed left click.
- name: double_click
  description: Element-indexed or pixel-addressed double click.
- name: right_click
  description: Element-indexed or pixel-addressed right click.
- name: type_text
  description: Atomic text insertion through IA2/UIA/CDP/HWND routes.
- name: type_text_chars
  description: Compatibility wrapper for character-spaced text entry.
- name: press_key
  description: Single key press scoped to the target when possible.
- name: hotkey
  description: Modifier combination such as ["ctrl","c"].
- name: scroll
  description: Background-safe direction or wheel scroll where supported.
- name: set_value
  description: Direct UIA value/range setting for controls that expose safe setters.
- name: browser_eval
  description: Windows Chromium CDP Runtime.evaluate with userGesture=true.
- name: page
  description: macOS browser page/script helper for supported browser surfaces.
- name: drag
  description: macOS drag action for controls and canvas-like targets.
- name: child_session_start
  description: Windows-only no-activate child-session host probe.
- name: child_session_status
  description: Windows-only child-session support and host state.
- name: child_session_stop
  description: Windows-only child-session host stop.
- name: appbroadcast_input_probe
  description: Windows-only restricted AppBroadcast/InputInjector probe.
- name: move_cursor
  description: Move the visual overlay cursor without moving the real cursor.
- name: get_agent_cursor_state
  description: Return overlay visibility, palette, target, and motion state.
- name: set_agent_cursor_enabled
  description: Enable or disable the visual overlay.
- name: set_agent_cursor_motion
  description: Tune overlay glide, press, dwell, and idle-hide timing.
- name: set_recording
  description: Enable or disable trajectory recording.
- name: get_recording_state
  description: Return recorder state.
- name: replay_trajectory
  description: Replay recorded action.json calls in lexical order.
- name: get_config
  description: Return persistent config.
- name: set_config
  description: Set persistent config keys.
- name: check_permissions
  description: Report local automation and capture capability diagnostics.
deployment:
  mode: local-stdio
  verified: searched
  tools: 34
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census