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Give every Mac app an Agent Sidebar
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Give every Mac app an Agent Sidebar
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An AI agent beside any Mac app. Sider Omni sidebar sees what's on your screen and acts on it directly, right where you're working. Watch the result, ask for the next change. Nothing to copy, nothing to upload. Built on GPT-6 Astra, and it can run on your existing ChatGPT or Codex credits.
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Astra made it possible for us, for the first time, to successfully rewrite Omini Bar's complex Computer Use and Browser Use systems.
These features require coordinating macOS accessibility, visual understanding, browser control, interaction recovery, and tool protocols across a large codebase—work that previous models such as 5.6 could not complete reliably.
Astra can correctly execute complex, multi-step development tasks and automate real UI testing, from identifying failures and tracing their causes to implementing fixes and verifying the complete interaction.
This has dramatically reduced development and testing time, enabling us to build capabilities that were previously impractical to complete.
Hi! We're the team behind Sider Omni. 👋
We built Sider Omni so your agent can join the work you're already doing, with the context to understand it and the ability to act on it.
With a table open in Numbers, ask: “Create a bar chart of sales by region from this table.” 📊
Sider Omni reads the table already on screen and builds the chart in Numbers. As you inspect it, keep refining: “Now show return rates by region in a separate chart.” 🔁
You can see the source data and each change in the same workspace, then ask for the next step without exporting data or starting over.
You can also choose from supported models, including GPT-6 Astra, and pick a companion icon that follows you across your apps. ✨
We'd love to hear what you'd use Sider Omni for. 💬
How does it decide which AI model or tool is best suited for a specific task and can users customize those preferences?
Congrats @rick_fan & team!
@rick_fan @hamza_afzal_butt Thanks! You can choose the AI model, while Sider Omni automatically picks the right tools for each task—such as browser actions, desktop app control, file handling, and terminal commands.
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@hamza_afzal_butt Thank you, Hamza, you can do a lot of configuration right there in the settings.
I'd be a bit curious about the privacy side of this. What can it actually see?
@daniel_carter19 It can see text, buttons, and screenshots in the window it’s attached to—but only after you ask something or start a task that needs that context.
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@daniel_carter19 It leverages LLM's capabilities in computer use.
The spreadsheet thing caught my attention. Making charts without leaving the app would be handy.
@sathesharayu12 Exactly! You can ask Sider Omni to work with the spreadsheet in front of you and create charts without switching between apps.
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@sathesharayu12 Thank you, Sharayu, it is absolutely worth giving a try.
Could is suggest changes while I am designing in those apps?
@amybradley Yes! With the powerful GPT-6 Astra, Sider Omni can understand complex visual designs and provide high-quality suggestions for layout, copy, spacing, consistency, and more.
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@amybradley Sure, feel free to do that!
how does it handle sensitive data or private code on screen whe reading the active window?
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@jabari_zuri In windows with sensitive data, the best approach is not to launch it.
@jabari_zuri In the default Ask for approval mode, Sider Omni asks for your confirmation before reading sensitive information or private code from the active window. Only after you approve is the relevant content sent to your selected AI service for processing.