MarkuprPlus
You see it. You say it. Your AI fixes it.
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Pick a window. Talk through what's wrong. Circle it while it happens.
Every circle becomes its own issue, with its own screenshot, ready to paste into your coding agent.
Quick Start ·
The Loop ·
Output ·
Screenshots ·
Providers ·
MCP ·
CLI
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Hold Cmd, circle the problem, keep talking. That stroke becomes MX-001.
## The Problem
Your coding agent can't see your screen. So you stop working and start transcribing: describe the layout bug in prose, take a screenshot, crop it, drag it into the right place, explain which part matters. You speak at 150 words per minute and type at 60, and the context leaks out on the way.
## The Solution
MarkuprPlus is a menu bar app. It records the exact window you point at, listens while you narrate, and lets you draw on the live screen without blocking your clicks. When you stop, it transcribes on-device, aligns your words to each mark, and writes a report your agent can act on — one finding per circle, each with its own annotated frame.
```
Cmd+Shift+F → talk → Cmd-drag → Cmd+Shift+F → paste into your agent
```
## The Loop
### 1. Press `Cmd+Shift+F` and pick your target
The picker opens above every window. Whatever is under your cursor lights up — click it and the recorder locks onto that window alone, and stays locked through moves, resizes, and app switches. Region and full-display modes are one click away when a finding needs a wider frame.
If the window's identity or native geometry ever becomes ambiguous mid-session, capture **stops** rather than widening to whatever is behind it. You never ship a frame you didn't mean to share.
The whole app lives in this one portrait popover. No window to manage, no dock icon.
### 2. Talk while you work
Keep clicking through your app as usual. MarkuprPlus records the window and your microphone together, then transcribes with Whisper on-device after you stop.
The picker, the drawing canvas, and the recording HUD are all excluded from screen capture at the OS level — **nothing MarkuprPlus draws ends up in your video.** Only your app does, plus the strokes you meant to leave.
### 3. Hold `Cmd` and draw
Command-drag paints straight onto the live screen — freehand, circle, or highlight, in a colour you choose. Let go of the key and your next normal click both reaches the app underneath **and** saves that mark, clearing the canvas for the next one.
On Windows, hold `Ctrl` instead.
Three circles means three issues, not one screenshot with three scribbles on it. Each finding carries its own PNG, timestamp, tool, and colour.
### 4. Press `Cmd+Shift+F` again
Whisper runs, your narration is aligned to each mark, and the report is written to disk. The markdown path lands on your clipboard the moment it's ready — paste it straight into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or anything else that reads a file.
Everything for the session goes in one folder: the report, the screenshots, the session video, the narration audio, and the metadata.
## Quick Start
### Desktop app (recommended)
Download from [markuprplus.com](https://www.markuprplus.com) or the [releases page](https://github.com/hashfunction/MarkuprPlus/releases/latest). macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel, plus Windows.
> **macOS install note:** Direct downloads from GitHub Releases are signed, notarized, and stapled. If Gatekeeper rejects an artifact, use [MarkuprPlus support](https://markuprplus.com/support) so the release can be investigated.
1. Press `Cmd+Shift+F` (macOS) or `Ctrl+Shift+F` (Windows) and click the window you want.
2. Narrate what you see. Hold `Cmd` / `Ctrl` and drag to mark the live screen.
3. Release the key, then click normally — that saves the mark and clears the canvas. Repeat for every finding.
4. Press the hotkey again to stop. The report path is on your clipboard.
### MCP server (for AI coding agents)
```bash
npx --yes --package markuprplus markuprplus-mcp
```
### CLI (for recordings you already have)
```bash
npx markuprplus analyze ./recording.mov
```
> **Compatibility:** the public package and commands are `markuprplus` and
> `markuprplus-mcp`. Existing `.markuprx` project files, storage paths, and app
> identifiers remain unchanged so upgrades keep their settings and sessions.
### Optional companion for Mac App Store CLI integrations
The sandboxed Mac App Store app can use AI command-line tools already installed and signed in on your Mac through the optional MarkuprPlus CLI Bridge. Local Rules, Ollama, LM Studio, and Anthropic API do not require this companion.
Install and pair it from a Terminal:
```bash
npm install -g markuprplus
markuprplus bridge install # installs and starts a per-user LaunchAgent
markuprplus bridge token # paste this value in Settings → Advanced
markuprplus bridge status
```
The public npm package contains the same versioned CLI and MCP entry points used
by the source release.
The service listens only on `127.0.0.1:49647`, requires its random pairing token for every provider request, and accepts a fixed structured-report protocol rather than shell text. The App Store app does not run shell commands or launch external tools; the separately installed companion invokes only the provider selected in Settings.
Lifecycle and recovery commands:
```bash
markuprplus bridge start
markuprplus bridge stop
markuprplus bridge status
markuprplus bridge token
markuprplus bridge rotate-token
markuprplus bridge uninstall
```
Rotating the token requires pairing again. Uninstall removes the exact LaunchAgent and bridge configuration owned by MarkuprPlus; it does not uninstall your AI CLIs.
## What Lands in Your Folder
One session, one directory:
```
originplayer-test-iphone-20260818-104731/
├── feedback-report.md # the file you paste
├── feedback-summary.md # counts and duration
├── metadata.json # per-issue capture context
├── processing-trace.json # which provider ran, how long, why it fell back
├── screenshots/
│ ├── marked-issue-001.png # one frame per mark, your stroke composited in
│ ├── marked-issue-002.png
│ └── marked-issue-003.png
├── session-recording.webm # the window, with annotations
└── session-audio.webm # your narration
```
A real, unedited finding from that session:
```markdown
### MX-001
- **Timestamp:** 00:08
- **Tools:** freehand
- **Colors:** #ff3b30
#### User Comment
> So there's a search menu and over here by default, if there's been
> previous searches, it should list out all the searches that have
> happened in the past.
#### Marked Evidence
```
Each finding carries more than pixels:
| What travels with the issue | Example |
|---|---|
| Its own annotated PNG | `screenshots/marked-issue-001.png` |
| The narration at that moment | `transcript-segment-0001 … 0002` |
| How you marked it | `freehand · #ff3b30` |
| Where it came from | `window:5976:0` · `OriginPlayer Test iPhone` · `darwin` |
| Cursor, active app, and focus hints | captured at the instant you drew |
| Trigger metadata | `annotation`, `manual`, `pause`, or `voice-command` |
Marked issues are numbered `MX-001…`; items that come from narration alone are `FB-001…`.
## Every Surface
Report providers
Fifteen ways to turn a session into a report, each showing whether it's reachable right now — CLI version and path, local port, missing key.
|
Review editor
Reorder findings, retitle them, change category and severity, and drop the ones that were just thinking out loud.
|
Live markdown preview
See the exact file your agent will read before you save it. Copy it, open the folder, or export.
|
Recent captures
Every session stays on disk with its item and shot counts. Copy any report path back without hunting through Finder.
|
Hotkeys
Record, screenshot, and pause are global and rebindable, with the quick reference kept in the panel.
|
Appearance
Ten accent colours plus a custom picker, previewed live. Light and dark follow the system.
|
Recording & audio
Countdown before recording, audio waveform feedback, and microphone selection.
|
Transcription & keys
Whisper runs locally first. OpenAI only receives audio if local recovery fails and you saved a key.
|
Menu bar
Start a recording, jump to settings, or quit — without opening the popover at all.
|
## Local Transcription
On desktop startup, MarkuprPlus downloads the multilingual Whisper **tiny**
model (~75 MB) in the background if no local model is installed. Existing
models are reused. Download progress and retryable errors appear under
**Settings > Advanced > Local Transcription**. Interrupted downloads resume on
the next startup; offline or failed downloads do not block opening the app.
Once downloaded, local transcription works without an internet connection.
## Interface Language
The desktop interface defaults to **English**, including when upgrading from an
installation that previously displayed Traditional Chinese automatically.
Choose **Settings > General > Language > Interface language** to opt into
**Traditional Chinese** or switch back to English. The preference is saved and
applies immediately across open windows without restarting or interrupting a
recording. Resetting General settings restores English.
Interface language is separate from transcription language. Feedback text,
recordings, and generated reports are not translated by this setting.
To add another interface language, register its identifier and display name in
`src/shared/uiLanguage.ts` and its translation catalog in
`src/renderer/i18n/catalogs.ts`. English labels are the source and fallback for
missing translations; mark user-content regions with `translate="no"`.
## Report Providers
Pick the model that turns a capture into a structured report. MarkuprPlus checks each one **before** you record and shows you what it actually found.
In the Mac App Store app, CLI providers use the optional local companion described above. Direct desktop builds invoke the same adapters inside the app. Both paths preserve Local Rules as the failure-safe report.
| Provider | Kind | What it uses |
|---|---|---|
| **Codex CLI** | CLI | Your installed CLI or the Codex Mac app's bundled CLI and existing ChatGPT login, in a read-only ephemeral session |
| **Claude Code CLI** | CLI | The Claude Code CLI you're already signed in to |
| **GitHub Copilot CLI** | CLI | Copilot CLI 1.0.83+ with your existing GitHub login, in an isolated tool-free session |
| **OpenCode** | CLI | Your configured OpenCode provider, with a per-run agent that denies every tool action |
| **Cursor Agent CLI** | CLI | Cursor Agent in non-interactive, read-only Ask mode |
| **Qwen Code** | CLI | Qwen Code in safe, non-interactive plan mode with mutation tools excluded |
| **Goose** | CLI | Your configured Goose provider in tool-free chat mode, without profiles or session persistence |
| **Amp** | CLI | Your Amp login with an isolated default-deny tool policy |
| **Kiro CLI** | CLI | Kiro headless mode with only read and grep trusted |
| **Aider** | CLI | Your configured Aider model in dry-run, no-git mode |
| **Ollama** | Local | A model served on `127.0.0.1:11434` — nothing leaves the machine |
| **LM Studio** | Local | An LM Studio server on `127.0.0.1:1234` |
| **Anthropic API** | Cloud | Your own key, stored in the system keychain and used for nothing else |
| **Local rules** | Zero setup | Deterministic report from transcript and marks alone, no credentials |
**Failure is safe by design.** If the provider you picked errors out, the deterministic Local rules report is written anyway, and the popover names the provider and the reason. Your recording, audio, and marks were already on disk before analysis started. An explicit CLI choice never silently becomes an Anthropic call.
Codex CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, and OpenCode can receive captured screenshots. Transcript-only CLI adapters reject screenshot-only sessions instead of inventing visual findings.
To use **GitHub Copilot CLI**, install or update `copilot`, run `copilot login`
in Terminal, then select **GitHub Copilot CLI** in Report Settings and refresh
providers. Leave the model blank to use your Copilot default, or enter a Copilot
model ID. Discovery verifies the installed version; authentication is verified
when a report runs. The optional CLI Bridge provides the same integration for
the Mac App Store app.
Copilot receives the transcript over stdin and screenshots as attachments.
Each report uses a temporary Copilot configuration that reuses only your login
identity (credentials remain in the OS credential store) and default model, not
your plugins, hooks, MCP servers, or saved permissions. All model tools and
custom instructions are disabled. Temporary context is removed after success
or failure. Environment-token authentication is also supported; plaintext
credential fallbacks are not copied into the temporary configuration.
`processing-trace.json` records exactly what happened:
```json
{
"requestedProvider": "codex-cli",
"actualProvider": "rules",
"aiFallbackReason": "Codex analysis exited with status 1.",
"aiEnhanced": false,
"totalMs": 4220
}
```
## Why MarkuprPlus
**Evidence, not footage.** A screen recording leaves your agent a video it can't watch and you a file you have to narrate twice. This gives you separate findings, one annotated frame each, the words you said at that timestamp, and the window and cursor context.
**Local-first.** Whisper runs on your device and Local rules needs no credentials. Cloud transcription and cloud models only run when you explicitly pick them. No account, no telemetry, no analytics.
**It doesn't film itself.** The picker, the drawing canvas, and the recording HUD are content-protected at the OS level. Your marks reach the report; the app's own chrome never reaches the video.
**Works everywhere.** Desktop app for daily flow, CLI for scripts and CI, MCP server for agents, GitHub Action for pull requests. One pipeline, four front doors.
**Open source.** MIT licensed. Read it, fork it, ship it.
## MCP Server
Give your agent eyes and ears. It can capture screenshots, record your screen with voice, and receive structured reports mid-conversation.
Connect GitHub Copilot CLI, the Claude Mac app, or Codex with the setup command:
```bash
npm install -g markuprplus
markuprplus integrate copilot
markuprplus integrate claude-desktop
markuprplus integrate codex
```
Run the command for each client you use, then restart that client. Claude setup covers both Chat and Code. Codex shares its configuration with its CLI. Add `--dry-run` to preview; existing settings and other servers are preserved, and changed files are backed up. An existing conflicting `markuprplus` entry requires `--force`. See [client setup and capabilities](README-MCP.md#client-configuration) for details.
For manual setup, **Claude Code** (`~/.claude.json` or project `.mcp.json`), Cursor, and Windsurf take the same shape:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"MarkuprPlus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["--yes", "--package", "markuprplus", "markuprplus-mcp"]
}
}
}
```
### Tools
| Tool | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `capture_screenshot` | Grab the current screen with cursor, active app/window, and focus hints attached. |
| `capture_with_voice` | Record screen and mic for a set duration, and return a structured report. |
| `describe_screen` | Describe what's currently on screen. |
| `start_recording` | Begin an interactive recording session. |
| `stop_recording` | End the session and run the full pipeline. |
| `analyze_video` | Process an existing `.mov` / `.mp4` into Markdown with extracted frames. |
| `analyze_screenshot` | Run a single screenshot through the analysis pipeline. |
| `push_to_github` | Create GitHub issues from a report. |
| `push_to_linear` | Create Linear issues from a report. |
```
You: "The sidebar is overlapping the main content on mobile. Can you see it?"
Agent: [calls capture_screenshot]
"I can see it — the sidebar is position: fixed with no z-index,
280px wide with no responsive breakpoint. Fixing the CSS..."
```
Full MCP documentation: [README-MCP.md](README-MCP.md).
## CLI
```bash
npx markuprplus analyze ./recording.mov
```
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `markuprplus analyze