Star Citizen Auto-Accept

A lightweight Windows helper that watches your screen while you play Star Citizen and automatically accepts mission/contract popups for you.

It works entirely by reading the screen — it takes a small screenshot of the top-center of your monitor every couple of seconds, runs OCR (text recognition) on it, and when it sees a popup you've chosen to auto-accept it presses the [ key. It does not read or modify the game's memory or files.

Features

• Auto-accepts Contract Shared popups (and optionally party invites and friend requests).
• Away Mode — taps the Up arrow every few minutes so the game doesn't kick you for being idle.
• System tray icon with a right-click menu (settings, pause, show/hide the log window, exit).
• Settings window for configuring hotkeys and which popups to accept — saved to settings.json.
• Debug snapshot hotkey that saves exactly what the script is capturing, for troubleshooting.

Requirements

Requirement	Notes
Windows 10 / 11	The script uses Windows-only input and screen APIs.
Star Citizen in Borderless window mode	Important — screen capture cannot see a game running in exclusive Fullscreen. Set this in-game under Settings → Graphics → Window Mode → Borderless.
Python 3.8+	Tick "Add python.exe to PATH" during install.
Tesseract OCR	A separate program that does the text recognition. Install with default settings.
Python packages	mss, pillow, pytesseract, pydirectinput, keyboard, pystray — installed automatically by install_requirements.bat.

Installation

1. Install Python from python.org. During setup, tick "Add python.exe to PATH".

2. Install Tesseract OCR from the UB-Mannheim builds. Download the file named like tesseract-ocr-w64-setup-5.x.x.exe and click through with the default settings. The script searches the common install locations automatically.

3. Download this repository (green Code button → Download ZIP, or git clone) and unzip it to a folder of your choice.

4. Install the Python packages — double-click install_requirements.bat. It runs pip for you. You should see "Successfully installed" near the end.

5. Set Star Citizen to Borderless window mode (see Requirements above).

Running it

Right-click run.bat and choose "Run as administrator".

Running as administrator matters: Star Citizen often runs elevated, and simulated keypresses will not reach an elevated game from a non-elevated script.

On the first run a Settings window opens. Set your preferences, click Save, and the watcher starts. After that it goes straight to running — open the Settings window again anytime from the tray icon.

To stop it: press the quit hotkey (F9), or right-click the tray icon and choose Exit.

Configuring the controls

Settings window

Opens automatically on first run, and anytime from the tray icon (right-click → Settings…). Changes apply immediately.

Setting	What it does
Away Mode hotkey	Key combo that toggles Away Mode on/off. Default ctrl+f12.
Pause hotkey	Key combo that pauses/resumes scanning. Default f8.
Auto-accept: Contracts	Accept "Contract Shared" popups. On by default.
Auto-accept: Party invites	Accept party-invite popups. Off by default.
Auto-accept: Friend requests	Accept friend-request popups. Off by default.

Hotkey format — type a single key or a +-joined combination, for example:

f8        ctrl+f12        alt+p        shift+f7

If you enter an invalid combination the script falls back to the default and notes it in the log window.

Tray icon menu

Right-click the tray icon for:

• Settings… — open the settings window
• Pause / Resume scanning
• Hide / Show console window — hide the log window while you play, bring it back anytime (the script keeps running either way)
• Save debug snapshot — see Troubleshooting
• Open debug folder
• Exit

Want your own tray icon? Drop an image named tray_icon.png (or .ico / .jpg) into the script's folder — it's used automatically, with a simple drawn icon as the fallback.

Fixed hotkeys

These two are not configurable:

Hotkey	Action
Ctrl+F10	Save a debug snapshot
F9	Quit

Advanced settings

For finer tuning, open sc_auto_accept.py in a text editor — the CONFIG block near the top is commented and covers things like which monitor to watch, the capture region size, scan interval, how many times the accept key is pressed, the OCR brightness threshold, and the Tesseract path.

Troubleshooting

"Tesseract OCR is not installed" — install Tesseract (step 2 above). If you installed it to an unusual folder, set TESSERACT_PATH in the CONFIG block to the full path of tesseract.exe.

It misses popups — first make sure the game is in Borderless mode, not Fullscreen. If popups are still missed, press Ctrl+F10 while a popup is on screen; this saves a debug folder with exactly what the script captured and read. If the text is captured but not recognised, lower OCR_BRIGHT_THRESHOLD slightly in the CONFIG block.

It accepts the wrong thing — detection requires the popup's title words to appear next to each other, which excludes most unrelated UI. Turn off any auto-accept categories you don't want in the Settings window.

The accept key doesn't register in-game — make sure you launched via Run as administrator.

How it works

Every ~1.5 seconds the script captures a strip across the top-center of your monitor, isolates the bright popup text from the busy game background, runs it through Tesseract OCR, and checks the recognised text against the popup types you've enabled. On a match it sends the [ (Accept) key using DirectInput scancodes so the game registers it.

Disclaimer

This tool only reads the screen and sends keystrokes — it does not modify the game. That said, third-party automation may conflict with the game's Terms of Service / EULA. Use it at your own discretion and risk.