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Your AI gets its own cursor, keyboard and clipboard. You keep yours.

Other AI tools take over your Mac and keep pulling windows to the front. ShadowCursor works in the background, and you keep working.

Download for Mac

7 days free, no card needed

Real recording You work in front. Claude and Codex work behind you.

Computer use, without the pause.

When an AI takes over your Mac, you usually have to stop and wait. Not anymore.

Usual computer use

  • It takes over your cursor.
  • Your typing lands in its window.
  • Its windows jump to the front.
  • You stop and wait.

With ShadowCursor

  • It has its own cursor.
  • Your keyboard stays yours.
  • Nothing jumps to the front.
  • You keep working.

Everything stays yours.

  • Your cursor

    Stays exactly where you left it. Your AI moves its own.

  • Your keyboard

    What you type lands where you type it, never in your AI’s window.

  • Your clipboard

    Your AI copies and pastes with its own. Yours stays untouched.

  • Your windows

    Nothing jumps to the front. Your AI even works in windows you have covered.

If you can click it, it can.

ShadowCursor uses the same buttons, fields and menus you do, so there is nothing to integrate. If an app has a window, your AI can work in it, even when your own windows cover it.

  • Websites
  • Spreadsheets
  • Forms
  • Mac apps
  • Menus
  • File dialogs
  • Signatures
  • Sliders
  • Date pickers
Spreadsheets Fills a sheet you are not even looking at.
Websites Searches and reads in Safari while you write.
Mac apps Calendar, without ever coming to the front.
Signatures Signs a contract in Preview with a real pen stroke.

Every agent gets its own cursor.

Run Claude Code and Codex side by side, each in its own project. Every agent gets its own color and name tag, so you always see who is doing what.

Several agents at once Each with its own cursor, all at the same time.

Three steps. No tech skills needed.

  1. Download and open

    Open ShadowCursor and click Allow when your Mac asks. That is all it needs.

  2. Connect your AI

    ShadowCursor finds Claude, Codex, Cursor and VS Code on your Mac and connects them with one click.

  3. Just ask

    Tell your AI what to do, like “Add the new invoices to my spreadsheet.” It works in the background while you keep working.

For developers: connect it by hand

claude mcp add --scope user shadowcursor -- /Applications/ShadowCursor.app/Contents/MacOS/ShadowCursor mcp

7 days free. Then keep it.

Everything included: unlimited agents, every app, every update.

  • Unlimited agents
  • Up to 3 devices
  • All updates

No card needed for the trial. Cancel anytime.

Questions

What is ShadowCursor?

A Mac app that lets AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex operate your apps with their own cursor, keyboard and clipboard, in the background, while you keep using your Mac.

How is it different from other computer use?

Usual computer use takes over your pointer and keyboard and keeps pulling windows to the front, so you have to stop. With ShadowCursor nothing of yours is touched, and you never pause.

Which apps can an agent use?

Anything with a window: websites, spreadsheets, forms, Mac apps, menus, file dialogs, sliders, date pickers and signature pads. Even windows you have covered with your own.

Which agents work with it?

Claude Code, Codex and any client that speaks MCP. Several agents can work at the same time, each with its own cursor.

Is there anything it cannot do yet?

Dragging files or tabs from one place to another, minimized windows, and menus that open only on hover in Chrome. Everything else works.

Does it move and type like a person?

Yes. The pointer moves in natural curves and the keyboard types at around 200 words per minute with a human rhythm, so websites react to it the way they react to you.

Does my screen leave my Mac?

ShadowCursor runs locally. An agent only sees the windows it works in, and only the agent you connected sees them.

What do I need?

macOS 15 Sequoia or later. A Windows version for Windows 10 and 11 is in beta.

Stop pausing. Let your AI work behind you.

Download for Mac

7 days free, no card needed