Use Foxstep with your AI

Foxstep includes an MCP server, so any assistant on your Mac that accepts local MCP servers can use your guides. That includes Claude, ChatGPT's Mac app, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI. Your assistant's AI is billed by its provider. The connection uses no Foxstep AI credits.

Connect

1. In Foxstep, open Settings › Assistant connection and select Connect… next to Foxstep MCP.
2. Choose your assistant.

Assistant	What happens
Claude	Add to Claude opens the Foxstep extension in Claude for you to install.
ChatGPT and Codex	Add to ChatGPT adds Foxstep to both. Restart ChatGPT. If that fails, Foxstep shows the command to enter in ChatGPT under Settings › MCP servers › Add server, as STDIO.
Cursor	Add to Cursor opens Cursor so you can add Foxstep.
Any other, such as Gemini CLI	Copy setup copies an entry to merge into your assistant's MCP settings.

The entry looks like this:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "foxstep": {
      "args": [],
      "command": "/Applications/Foxstep Desktop.app/Contents/Helpers/foxstep-mcp"
    }
  }
}

The server is inside the app. You don't need Node, Python or any other install, and it doesn't listen on the network.

What your AI can do

• Answer from your guides. Ask "How do we add a new client?" and your AI searches your guides, then answers with their steps and screenshots.
• Follow a guide. Each guide comes with a step plan: the app, the control, what to type, what should happen next and when to ask you first. An assistant that can use your Mac can do the task from it. Foxstep itself never clicks or types.
• Hide private details. Ask "Hide the client's email in that guide." Foxstep finds it in the text and the screenshots and hides it, as one change you can undo.

Tools

Tool	What it does
list_guides	Lists your guides, newest first, or finds the ones that match a question.
get_guide	Reads a guide's steps in order, its walkthrough and its step plan.
get_step_image	Returns a step's screenshot, or just the control the step uses.
hide_in_guide	Asks Foxstep to hide words, a kind of detail such as emails or phone numbers, or an area of a screenshot.

What your AI sees

• Only guides you've approved in Foxstep's privacy review, as you approved them, with their step plans. Editing or undoing a guide means reviewing it again.
• Never: hidden steps, unsaved changes, original screenshots, file paths or edit history.

Your assistant may send what it reads to its provider, under that provider's terms.

Good to know

• Your assistant must run on the same Mac. ChatGPT on the web or on a phone can't reach it.
• Your AI can read the guides your licence covers: your free guide, or all of them once you've bought Foxstep. Hiding works on any guide.
• Foxstep needs to be open for your AI to hide things. It's busy while you record or export.
• Foxstep needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.

AI skills

You can also export a guide as an AI skill: a SKILL.md file with its screenshots and step plan. Use it with assistants that take skills, or to give a guide to someone else's AI. When you export a guide, choose AI skill.