What is anscribe?

Anscribe is a developer tool that connects terminal based user interfaces to AI coding assistants. It lets you press a keyboard shortcut inside a terminal app built with OpenTUI, a library for building rich terminal UIs, point at any visible element on screen, type an instruction, and immediately send that snapshot, called a Capture, to an AI agent. The Capture packages the UI element and your instruction as a formatted text payload. There are two delivery modes. The default clipboard mode copies the Capture to your system clipboard as markdown, which you can then paste into an AI assistant such as Claude Code, Cursor, or opencode. This mode works over SSH and inside dev containers with no extra setup. The optional MCP mode goes further: it stores Captures in a local SQLite database and runs a small local server that AI agents can connect to and pull from automatically, without manual pasting. Setup is minimal. A short code example in the README shows importing and calling a single function, passing a keybinding, and that is the entire integration. Press the shortcut, select a rendered element, add an instruction, press enter, and the Capture lands on the clipboard. The project is split across several packages: one for OpenTUI integration, one for MCP server functionality, one for React component enrichment, and a shared core package that all the others depend on. It is written in TypeScript, installed using the Bun package manager, and released under the MIT license.