Use Yubico Authenticator on your Mac from ChatGPT or Claude
Full-featured companion app to the YubiKey. With BCD, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps can open Yubico Authenticator on your Mac, read its window and press buttons or type, from your phone or another computer.
Works on
- MacPartly
Through the app's window, with macOS accessibility: BCD reads what Yubico Authenticator 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.
About Yubico Authenticator
- Version
- 7.4.1
- Installs (last 365 days)
- 6,583 · #240 among Homebrew apps
- Install
brew install --cask yubico-authenticator
Try asking
“Open Yubico Authenticator and tell me what is on its screen”
“Install Yubico Authenticator with Homebrew”
“Quit Yubico Authenticator and update it to the latest version”
Questions
Can ChatGPT control Yubico Authenticator?
On a Mac with BCD, yes, through the app's window: ChatGPT can open Yubico Authenticator, 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 Yubico Authenticator 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.