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Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that records the text of the focused window for use by an LLM or other agent. Through the macOS accessibility tree, it reads window text every few seconds and appends deduplicated blocks to one plain Markdown file per day, including the document path or URL and an AGENTS.md file describing the format. It does not use screenshots or video and, in the current build, makes no network calls, accounts, servers, telemetry, or bundled model; password fields, password-manager and private-browsing windows are excluded, and credentials, API keys, and card-shaped numbers are scrubbed before writing. The project is early and unsigned, requires macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon, and currently must be built from source with Node, Rust, and Xcode Command Line Tools.
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A macOS utility that reads text from the focused window through the accessibility tree and appends it to a daily Markdown file. It avoids screenshots, video, network calls, password managers, and private browsing.
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