Screen Memory

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Lets your agent check and recall which apps and windows were recently on your computer screen.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Screen Memory skill

About this skill

Screen Memory, the disabled-by-default, local-only desktop buffer of recent screen/app/window context, plus its status and query actions. Use when the user asks what was on screen recently, or when reading, exporting, enabling, or describing Screen Memory.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by builderio/agent-native in templates/clips/.agents/skills/screen-memory/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Rule

Screen Memory is a disabled-by-default, local-only desktop buffer of recent screen, app, and window context. It is not a hosted Clips recording, and never describe it as hosted, shared, exhaustive, or enabled by default.

Reading it from the in-app agent

  1. Call get-screen-memory-status before relying on it at all.
  2. Then call query-screen-memory-context for bounded recent snippets when local context files are present.

If the local Screen Memory MCP built-in is connected, the agent may also use screen_memory_status, screen_memory_recent_context, and screen_memory_recent_segments. Only inspect or export segment file paths when the user explicitly asks.

User control and external agents

Users enable, pause, export, and clear the buffer from the desktop tray settings. External local agents can read recent app/window context through agent-native mcp screen-memory.

Do not upload raw Screen Memory segments or treat them as shareable Clips unless the user explicitly exports and imports them.

Related skills

  • recording — the hosted capture path Screen Memory is not part of.
  • security — why local-only context stays local.
  • context-awareness — the supported way the agent learns what is on screen inside Clips.

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