macos-accessibility

macOS Accessibility APIs enable cross-application automation including window control, text selection reading, keyboard monitoring, and UI element inspection. Script-kit-gpui uses these APIs extensively for text expansion, window tiling, and getting selected text from other applications.

Crate Dependencies

# Cargo.toml
get-selected-text = "0.1"      # Hybrid AX + clipboard fallback for reading selected text
macos-accessibility-client = "0.0.1"  # Permission checking for accessibility APIs

Permission Requirements

Why Accessibility Permission Is Required