Launching today
Cai
Press ⌥C on anything to run smart actions, locally
34 followers
Press ⌥C on anything to run smart actions, locally
34 followers
Press ⌥C on anything to run smart actions: AI prompts, shell scripts, GitHub issues, Linear tickets, or send results anywhere... All one keystroke away. Bring your own brain: bundled Ministral 3B for zero-setup local AI, any HuggingFace MLX model for Apple Silicon speed, or connect Ollama, LM Studio, Apple Intelligence, or OpenRouter. Free, MIT licensed. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
Glazed
Greetings again, PH 👋
Cai is my attempt to escape the "⌘Tab fatigue" for everyday tasks (eg. copy something → ⌘Tab to Claude → paste, wait, follow-up → ⌘Tab back, paste, copy → ⌘Tab to browser…) Probably 30+ times a day?
I originally tried shipping it as a Raycast extension, but it's been sitting in their review queue ever since, so I decided to build Cai natively from scratch with simplicity, privacy and ownership in mind.
As models keep improving and commoditising, I strongly believe local and privacy-first is the way forward (my Gmail from 2005 is probably in some model's weights now, writing bad poetry to strangers.). Cai aims to become the assistant you own, that runs on your Mac and you never have to think twice about what data you're feeding it.
Cai is free, MIT licensed, and a few amazing people are already helping with ideas and code (massive thanks for your support! 🙏). Everything in the demo runs 100% on your Mac.
Roast it in the thread, I'll be around all day.
Much love,
Asís
Glazed
@soyasis amazing, it makes my workflow so much smoother not having to jump back and forth between all different apps I have opened :) I also just found out that there are community extensions - love it!
@soyasis Is this working on Windows as well?If yes what are the shortcuts there and are they customizable?
Glazed
@shantanu_singh_parihar Unfortunately no in scope atm, but if we get enough interest we'd be happy to consider :)
@soyasis Sounds like a great tool! Very interesting. Just heads up, I think the preview video sound is mixed up around 2:48-3:15
Glazed
@kacper_gasior Thanks for the heads-up! Recorded the video very late at night... :D
Glazed
@kacper_gasior Check this version instead: https://youtu.be/LH2MYNQ_wsk