Use Menial Base on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude

• MacPartly

  Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what Menial Base shows and presses buttons, types and picks menus. How far it goes depends on the app. macOS asks once to allow it.

• WindowsNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

• LinuxNo

  BCD controls app windows only on a Mac.

Version

3.3.0

Installs (last 365 days)

455 · #1,252 among Homebrew apps

Needs

macOS 15 or later

Updates

Updates itself

Homepage

menial.co.uk/base

Install

brew install --cask base

“Open Menial Base and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Menial Base with Homebrew”
“Quit Menial Base and update it to the latest version”

Can ChatGPT control Menial Base?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Menial Base, read the buttons and text it shows, press buttons, type and pick menu items. How far that goes depends on how much of its window Menial Base exposes to macOS accessibility.

Does this work on Windows?
No. BCD controls app windows only on a Mac. On Windows and Linux it works with files and commands.

Is it safe?
A new computer starts read-only. Controlling the screen and apps is turned on per computer, and macOS asks once before BCD may control apps.

Try it on your computer

BCD connects ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps to your own Mac, Windows or Linux computer. One computer is free, with 20,000 tool calls a month and no card.