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Keel is a local-first native macOS coding workspace that runs coding agents through a Rust/GPUI application. It combines sessions, a composer, transcripts, a terminal, change inspection, settings, Git history, crash recovery, and an agent graph showing active agents, subagents, and files as shared context; agents can be steered or stopped from the graph. It connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Hermes, and pi through the Agent Client Protocol, and also includes an embedded DeepSeek agent loop with host-enforced tool focus. For unpinned tasks, a local Laya selector running through Core ML or an optional hosted Jev selector chooses among host-prepared routes or abstains. Keel validates each choice before applying it, falls back to the ordinary route when a choice is rejected, stale, or expired, and records candidates, validation, fallback, and observed outcome in bounded decision receipts. Decision receipts can be exported as JSONL and summarized with CLI reports. Keel also provides headless and daemon modes, while each coding provider retains its own authentication, model configuration, and tool loop. The repository supports Apple Silicon and macOS 15 or later for the packaged Laya model. It can be built from source, but the repository does not currently publish downloadable app releases; packaged builds are ad hoc signed development builds. Automatic training, public installer distribution, cloud sync, and native Codex realtime voice are not implemented or included in this build.

sideOS is a macOS voice-controlled AI agent that lives in a MacBook's notch. Holding Control and Option, speaking, and releasing lets it read the live screen through macOS's accessibility tree, open or focus apps, click interface elements, type text, press key combinations, run AppleScript, and report what it did aloud. It can use local models or the user's API keys for supported AI providers, while on-device dictation requires no API request. The application also supports background tasks with shell commands, files, web search, page reading, PDF rendering, and AppleScript; it asks for approval before potentially irreversible commands and saves task output in a sideOS Tasks folder. Other functions described on its site include on-device meeting recording and transcription, reminders, app connections through MCP configurations, and optional local activity history. It is distributed as a macOS download with a one-time purchase.

Skill Recorder is a Microsoft desktop application that records a work session—including screen activity, application and window switches, browser pages, clipboard previews, and optional spoken narration—and uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct the session as an overall intent and ordered steps. Users can review and edit the analysis, then generate either a reusable SKILL.md procedure for an AI agent or an Automation that runs on a schedule or trigger. Generated procedures prefer an agent’s native tools, such as the gh CLI or web_fetch, over replaying interface clicks and can generalize from the recorded example. Recording, frame extraction, local storage, and optional narration transcription occur on the computer; choosing Analyze sends the event timeline, extracted screen images, and narration text to GitHub’s cloud for Copilot processing. Narration is transcribed on-device using a Whisper model. The application is distributed as a source release that downloads a pinned Node.js runtime and builds the release locally without a global installation. macOS is the primary target, with Windows 11 support for x64 and ARM64 and Ubuntu installation instructions. A GitHub account with Copilot access is required.

VoiceStudio is an open-source, fully local desktop application for voice cloning and design, text-to-speech, transcription, dictation, video dubbing, and long-form audio production. It runs on macOS Apple Silicon, Windows, Linux, or Docker and keeps voices, projects, settings, and generated files on the machine by default. The application combines a Tauri desktop shell, a React and Vite interface, and a local FastAPI backend with registries for multiple TTS and ASR engines. Its workflows can transcribe and translate video, preserve speaker assignments, synthesize replacement speech, render audiobook chapters, separate vocals, diarize speakers, process batch jobs, and route work to CPU, CUDA, Apple Silicon MPS/MLX, ROCm, or optional remote workers. It also exposes local REST, SSE, WebSocket, OpenAI-compatible audio, and MCP interfaces, including speech synthesis and transcription endpoints. VoiceStudio is licensed under AGPL-3.0; downloaded models and tokenizers retain their own licenses. The local workflow requires no account, API key, subscription, or usage meter, although remote workers, configured external ASR endpoints, analytics, and other network-backed functions are opt-in. The repository describes the software as an active beta and distributes packaged desktop releases as well as source code.

Kimi Code CLI is an AI coding agent developed by Moonshot AI that runs in a terminal. It reads and edits code, runs shell commands, searches files, fetches web pages, and selects subsequent actions based on the feedback from those operations. It works with Moonshot AI's Kimi models and can be configured with other compatible model providers. The tool is distributed as a single binary and provides an interactive terminal UI. It accepts video input, supports conversational configuration of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and can install skills, MCP servers, and data sources from its marketplace or GitHub repositories. Built-in coder, explore, and plan subagents can work in isolated contexts, while lifecycle hooks can run local commands at selected points in a session. Kimi Code CLI also supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), allowing compatible editors and IDEs such as Zed and JetBrains to drive sessions through the `kimi acp` command. The repository documents installation for macOS, Linux, and Windows and provides OAuth or Moonshot AI Open Platform API-key login options.