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Use Captain's Deck on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude

Dual-pane file manager inspired by Norton Commander. With BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can open Captain's Deck on your Mac, read its window and press buttons or type, from your phone or another computer.

Works on

About Captain's Deck

Version
1.5.8
Installs (last 365 days)
321 · #1,488 among Homebrew apps
Needs
macOS 14 or later
Updates
Updates itself
Homepage
captains-deck.com
Install
brew install --cask captains-deck

Try asking

“Open Captain's Deck and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Captain's Deck with Homebrew”
“Quit Captain's Deck and update it to the latest version”

Questions

Can ChatGPT control Captain's Deck?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Captain's Deck, 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 Captain's Deck 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.

Program data from Homebrew, updated 2026-11-11. Installs are Homebrew's installs on request over the last 365 days.