Give your agent hands in one line

Coding agents are great inside a repo. The moment a task leaves the terminal, they stop: they can't click the setting in your app, check the result in the simulator, or file the bug in the tool your team uses.

ands is an MCP server that closes that gap.

Install

In Claude Code:

claude mcp add ands -- npx -y andsh mcp

For other clients, ands mcp --config codex (or cursor, vscode, claude-desktop) prints the exact snippet to paste.

What the agent gets

• ands_look returns an app as an accessibility tree, where every button and field has a ref like @s7k2:e14.
• ands_act clicks, types, selects or scrolls on a ref.
• ands_press, ands_apps, ands_clipboard and ands_screenshot cover keys, windows, the clipboard and the rare case where the tree isn't enough.
• ands_do hands over a whole task in plain words. ands does it with its own model through OpenRouter, so your agent's context stays clean.

Approvals still go to a person

Every call is sorted into read, change or sensitive before it reaches the engine. When a client supports MCP elicitation, the question shows up right inside it. Otherwise ands opens a system dialog, so even an agent running in the background can't approve itself.

Try it

Ask your agent: "Open my app, turn on dark mode and tell me if the sidebar text is still readable." Then watch it look, click, and stop to ask you before anything sensitive.