Get started in
3 steps.
No account. No config files. No credit card.
Download, install, restart your editor. That is it.
Download the installer
Grab the latest .msi from GitHub Releases. Double-click to install. Takes under 10 seconds.
Restart your editor
Context Snipe auto-registers as an MCP server with supported editors on first boot. No manual configuration needed.
Verify it works
Look for the Context Snipe icon in your system tray. Then ask your AI: "What do you see on my screen right now?"
Compatibility
Supported editors
Under the hood
What Context Snipe does
after install.
Context Snipe runs as a lightweight Rust process in your system tray. Under 40MB RAM. It starts automatically on login.
On first boot, it writes MCP config entries for all supported editors. Your AI tools discover it automatically — no manual JSON editing.
Captures your screen at 2fps via DXGI, scans project files for dependencies, and checks them against the OSV.dev vulnerability database.
Common questions
Setup FAQ
cs@setup:~$ Do I need to create an account?
No. Download, install, done. No login, no email, no credit card. The free tier works with zero accounts.
cs@setup:~$ Does it send my code to the cloud?
No. Context Snipe runs 100% on your machine. Nothing leaves your computer. The only optional call is checking a free public CVE database.
cs@setup:~$ I use VS Code with GitHub Copilot. Will it work?
Context Snipe connects via MCP (Model Context Protocol). Copilot does not support MCP yet. But if you use Cline or Continue inside VS Code, it works out of the box.
cs@setup:~$ What if I do not see anything different?
Context Snipe is invisible by design — it runs silently in your system tray. The change happens inside your AI tool: ask it about something visible on your screen and it will use fetch_latest_visual_context to see it.
cs@setup:~$ How much memory does it use?
Under 40MB. Built in Rust, not Electron. Fixed memory footprint that never grows.