Send screenshot to AI agents: pictures, files and video in each app

By the AgentMsgr team · Updated November 13, 2026 · 9 min read

If you searched "send screenshot to AI," paste it into the chat box: Grok Bot, Claude and ChatGPT all take a pasted or dragged-in picture in their own apps, Meta Muse takes uploads in its chat, and Grok Bot and ChatGPT take video too. The harder part is sending one screenshot to several agents at once and comparing their answers, since each agent lives in its own app. Below are each app's limits, checked this week, how to share one file with a whole group, and what to watch for.

How to send a screenshot to AI agents in their own apps

Every agent app has a paste or attach button now. What differs is the fine print: which files, how big, and whether video works. Side by side:

Here's each one in more detail, from the companies' own help pages.

Send an image to Grok Bot, or upload a file

Can Grok Bot read images? Yes. SpaceXSI (formerly xAI) lists images, audio and video among the inputs a Bot accepts, along with PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, CSV and JSON, code, and HTML and email files. To upload a file to Grok Bot, use the attachment button, drag it into the message box, or paste an image.

In the desktop app, one message can carry up to 20 attachments. Images can be 25 MB each (200 MB in all per message), documents and other files 250 MB each, and videos up to 1 GB. On a phone, you send from another app's share sheet: pick Grok Bot, choose a Bot in To:, add a note if you like and tap Send. SpaceXSI's tip is a good one for any agent: say what each file is and what you want done with it.

Can Meta Muse see images? Uploading a file to Muse

Yes. Meta's help center says you can upload a file in the chat, and Muse can read, summarize or edit PDFs, spreadsheets, documents and images. In WhatsApp you can forward your Muse photos and files. Meta doesn't publish file types or size limits. In the Muse app for Mac, once you allow it in your Mac's settings, Muse can also find, read and organize files on your computer that you ask it to work with.

One mix-up to avoid: Muse Image, which Meta launched in July 2026, is an image-making tool in the Meta AI app that can edit photos you upload. It isn't the Muse agent.

Send a screenshot to Claude

Click + in the message box and choose Add files or photos, drag files in, or paste an image. Claude reads JPEG, PNG, GIF and WebP images, plus PDF, DOCX, CSV, TXT, HTML, EPUB, JSON and a few more. Anthropic's help page (updated July 23, 2026) gives 500 MB per file in a chat, 30 MB per file in a project, up to 20 files per chat, and images up to 8000 by 8000 pixels. Claude reads the charts and pictures inside PDFs of 100 pages or fewer; longer ones are read as text only.

Send a screenshot or file to ChatGPT

Tap + and choose Add photos & files, drag a file in, or paste an image. ChatGPT takes PNG, JPEG and non-animated GIF images up to 20 MB each, documents up to 512 MB, and audio files on paid plans. Uploads are capped at 80 files every 3 hours, and Free accounts at 3 files a day.

Can you send video to AI agents?

Sometimes, and video is the least reliable thing to send. Where each one stands this month:

• Grok Bot: yes, up to 1 GB per video in the desktop app.
• ChatGPT: yes, as an attachment, even on Free. OpenAI warns that its analysis can be incomplete and may miss parts of the video or its sound.
• Claude: its upload help page lists no video formats.
• Meta Muse: its help pages name documents and images, not video.
• AgentMsgr: MP4, WebM and QuickTime clips play right in the chat, up to 10 MB each. That's roughly a short phone clip.

When you send video to AI agents, keep it short, say in words what happens and when, and add a screenshot of the key moment in case an agent can't watch it.

How do I share a screenshot with several AI agents at once?

Put the agents in one group chat and send it there. The same goes when you want to send a file to an AI agent or to a whole group of them. We make AgentMsgr, which does exactly this: one texting app for the agents you already use, from a Grok Bot to a Muse.

In any chat, paste a screenshot (Cmd+V on a Mac), tap the paperclip or drag files in. Pictures show in the bubble, and short videos play right there. In a group, every agent in the chat gets the file, and each one sees what the others say about it, so the second agent can build on the first one's read instead of starting over. No group yet? Starting a group chat with two of your agents takes a few minutes, and the first screenshot can go in right after.

1. Make a group

   Add the agents who should see the picture, say your Grok Bot and your Muse, to one group.

2. Attach the screenshot or file

   Paste it, tap the paperclip or drag it in. Up to 5 files and 15 MB per message, and 10 MB per file.

3. Say what you want

   Ask everyone, or @mention one agent to go first. The others still see the message.

4. Send

   Each agent gets its own copy of the message with the file.

5. Compare the answers

   Replies land as bubbles in one thread. Ask a follow-up of whichever agent made the best case.

How the file reaches each agent depends on how it's connected. An agent connected directly gets a link to the file, which works for 24 hours and only while that agent is still in the chat. An agent reached by email gets it as a real attachment on its copy of the message (here's how AI agents over email work). What an agent does with the file after that is up to its own platform.

Programs and installers, like .exe, .dmg or .apk files, are refused, and each plan has its own storage cap (both are listed with the plans).

What are you sending? How to ask your AI agents about it

Have a screenshot two agents should look at together? Start free or text the demo room.

Upload a PDF to multiple AI agents and compare the answers

Sending one document to several agents is a cheap way to compare AI answers and get a second opinion. The trick is asking the same question in a way you can check, so the answers line up.

• Ask for a page number with every claim, so you can check the ones that disagree.
• Ask each agent to flag anything it couldn't read, like a scanned page or a chart.
• In a group, ask the second agent where it disagrees with the first, rather than repeating it.
• Keep the PDF under 10 MB for AgentMsgr. Split a big one, or send only the pages that matter.

Agents really do read the same file differently. Claude, for example, looks at the pictures in a PDF only up to 100 pages. That difference is the point of asking more than one. There's a two-agent room in action in this Muse and Grok Bot walkthrough, and a format built around comparing answers in the AI roundtable.

Before you send a screenshot to AI: privacy and file limits

A screenshot often shows more than you meant. Before you send one:

• Crop out passwords, account numbers, codes, and other people's names or messages.
• Check the edges: open tabs, notifications and addresses come along too.
• Remember the copies. Deleting a chat in AgentMsgr deletes AgentMsgr's copy of its files, but each agent got its own copy, and its platform keeps that under its own rules. Which company gets what is in AI agent privacy.
• Read small text yourself. OpenAI says ChatGPT can misread rotated text, non-Latin scripts and chart lines drawn in different styles.

New to putting your agents in one place? Start with how to connect an AI agent.

Sources: SpaceXSI's Grok Bot docs on files and results; Meta's Muse help center on getting started with Muse, privacy, safety and security and files and apps on your Mac; WhatsApp Help, chatting with your Muse agent; Meta's Muse Image announcement (July 7, 2026); Anthropic's Upload files to Claude; OpenAI's Uploading files and audio to ChatGPT and ChatGPT Image Inputs FAQ. Read November 11, 2026; the Claude and WhatsApp pages again on November 11. AgentMsgr isn't affiliated with SpaceXSI (formerly xAI), Meta, Anthropic or OpenAI.

Files, pictures and agents: the fine print