Install ShowTake

ShowTake is a Mac app with its MCP server inside the bundle. Install it once per Mac.

Requirements

• macOS 26 Tahoe or later.
• For iOS apps: Xcode with an iOS Simulator runtime (ShowTake builds your scheme with xcodebuild and runs it in its own simulator). Nothing else: ShowTake ships with the open-source AXe tool built in, which it uses to read the simulator's accessibility tree, type and send touches.
• For Mac apps: the Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions for ShowTake (macOS permissions).

Install the app

Download the disk image from the download page, open it and drag ShowTake to Applications. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings, and it updates itself in the background.

Or with Homebrew:

brew install --cask orchestero/tap/showtake

You do not need to install AXe separately: ShowTake uses its own copy inside the app, and a Homebrew axe on your Mac is never used unless you point ShowTake at it on purpose (defaults write app.showtake.ShowTake AXePath /opt/homebrew/bin/axe; defaults delete app.showtake.ShowTake AXePath goes back to the built-in copy).

First launch

Open ShowTake once. It creates its library in ~/Movies/ShowTake/, where every project keeps its takes, flows and exports:

~/Movies/ShowTake/<project>/
  project.json
  takes/<take-id>/raw.mov, events.json, flow.yaml
  flows/<name>.yaml
  exports/

You do not need to keep the app open: the MCP server starts it in the background when your agent calls a tool.

Next

Connect your agent, then ask for a demo.