I built Rig: the missing eyes for your AI coding assistant

Hey all, Rich here, I built Rig.

Short version of why. I kept watching my assistant write good code and then have absolutely no idea it was running against a dead database, or that the port it wanted was already taken by something from three projects ago. I was the courier, copying terminal output into a chat window so the assistant could tell me what I already knew. That got old fast.

Rig is the fix. One window for every local process, database, port and log on your Mac, and a local MCP hub that lets Claude, Cursor and the rest actually see and act on that environment instead of guessing at it. Nothing leaves your machine and nothing happens without you confirming it first.

This has been built entirely in evenings and weekends alongside a full time engineering job, no funding, no team. Local Rig is free forever. The only thing that costs money is Mesh, which lets you reach your machine from anywhere, and that is priced the way it is because relaying your traffic actually costs us to run.

I'll be in the comments all day. Tell me what's broken, what's missing, and what you'd want your assistant to be able to see or do that it can't yet. Genuinely want to hear it.