Using SteerLatch

Official links

• Account and adding computers: app.steerlatch.com
• MCP server: https://app.steerlatch.com/mcp (OAuth)
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Download SteerLatch only from your SteerLatch account; never install a package received from someone else. SteerLatch is not an AI model: it is the link between your AI and your computer. Adding SteerLatch manually to an AI does not mean that provider has listed it in its directory.

1. Create an account and add a computer

1. Create your account at app.steerlatch.com with your email (the invited one) and a password of at least 12 characters. You are signed in right away; two-factor authentication is optional.
2. In your account page, download the installer for your computer:
   • Mac (macOS 13.5 or later, Apple silicon or Intel): open SteerLatch-Mac.dmg and run “Installer SteerLatch”. The app is signed and notarized by Apple.
   • Windows 10/11: run SteerLatch-Windows.exe. The Windows installer is not signed by Microsoft yet: if Windows SmartScreen appears, click “More info” then “Run anyway”. No administrator rights are needed.
3. When installation finishes, your browser opens “Add this computer?”. Click Add this computer. It then appears in your account.

Only add computers you own or are authorized to manage.

2. Connect your AI

Open My AIs (“Mes IA” if your account shows French) in your account and follow the steps for your assistant. The MCP server address is https://app.steerlatch.com/mcp; the connection uses OAuth: you sign in to SteerLatch and click “Allow”.

• Claude (web, Desktop and mobile): the My AIs button opens Claude with SteerLatch pre-filled; click “Add”, then “Connect”.
• ChatGPT: “+”, then add a custom MCP server; name SteerLatch, the address above, OAuth authentication. Depending on your plan, developer mode may be required.
• Grok: grok.com/connectors, “New connector”, “Custom”, same address.
• Gemini: custom connectors depend on your country and Google account type; this path is not validated with SteerLatch yet.

Then simply ask: “List my SteerLatch computers”, then “Use my Mac” if you have several. SteerLatch never picks a computer for you when there are several; your choice is then remembered.

3. Consent on the computer

The first time an AI wants to act, a SteerLatch window opens on the computer itself. “Full access” is checked by default; uncheck what you refuse (files, terminal, screen, mouse and keyboard) and confirm. You are asked once per computer, and the choice stays valid until you withdraw it.

On a Mac, screenshots, mouse and keyboard also need macOS permissions: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility and Screen Recording. Without them these tools stay unavailable.

4. STOP, revoke and withdraw

• STOP (in your account; on a Mac also from the SteerLatch menu bar icon): immediately blocks every new AI action on that computer, including reads and screenshots, and interrupts actions in progress, including terminal commands and processes SteerLatch started. It never turns on by itself; turn it off when you want to resume.
• Revoke an AI: My AIs → “Revoke” on that authorization. Its next calls are refused.
• Revoke a computer: your account → the computer → “Revoke”. It receives no more requests.
• Withdraw consent on a Mac: SteerLatch menu bar icon → “Retirer l'autorisation de cet ordinateur” (withdraw this computer’s authorization). The consent window comes back on the next request. On Windows, use STOP or revoke the computer.

After STOP or a revocation, check that a new request is refused; you can also disconnect SteerLatch in your AI's settings. Revoking an AI or a computer blocks its next calls. STOP does the same and also interrupts actions in progress. Either way, an operation already under way may complete before the stop (writing a file, for example), a program that a command started separately may keep running, and nothing already changed is undone or restored.

5. What the AI can do

Available tools depend on the system, granted permissions and your consent choice: reading, searching, writing and moving files and creating folders; terminal (commands and processes); screenshots and an AI screen view; mouse and keyboard. SteerLatch has no dedicated file deletion tool, but the terminal runs any command with your account's rights, including commands that delete or change files, and writing a file can replace its contents. Each tool tells your AI whether it is read-only or may change your data, and your AI may ask you to confirm according to its own rules.

Tip: start with a test folder and do not use confidential documents while trying it. Results sent to the AI go to its provider, the one you already use; SteerLatch keeps no copy.

6. Troubleshooting

• The AI cannot connect: check the address https://app.steerlatch.com/mcp, finish signing in on the SteerLatch page that opens, then retry from the AI's connector settings. Never paste a code or token into the chat. How the OAuth sign-in works: MCP explained simply.
• The AI sees no computer: check in your account that the computer is “online” and switched on, then reconnect the AI from My AIs.
• “emergency_stop”: STOP is on; turn it off in your account.
• Screen, mouse or keyboard tools missing on a Mac: grant Accessibility and Screen Recording to SteerLatch (section 3), then ask again.
• Windows blocks the installer: see the SmartScreen step above.
• A command seems to never end: ask the AI to stop that process (the “Stop a command” tool): only that command stops. STOP interrupts everything in progress on the computer and refuses further actions until you lift it.
• Several computers: tell your AI which one to use.

Uninstall: on Windows, Settings → Apps → “SteerLatch” → Uninstall. On a Mac, revoke the computer, then write to support for the guided procedure.

7. Data

SteerLatch passes your AI's requests to your computer and returns the results to your AI, over encrypted connections. Your files stay on your computer, and what goes to your AI (a file extract, command output, a screenshot) crosses our relay in memory only: SteerLatch never stores it, not on its servers, not in its logs, not in its backups. Your account, your computer list and an activity log (action type, computer, time, result code) are kept for your dashboard and for security; this log does not contain the content of your files or the text of your commands. Your AI provider keeps your conversations under its own rules. Details in the privacy policy (French) and the terms of use (French).

8. Support

A question, or a screen that differs from this guide? Write to contact ([email protected]) with your system, the AI you use and the step concerned — never a password or file content.