Show HN: Higgs, a local AI CLI for Proton Mail (no cloud, no telemetry)
Schema manifest for tool use, NDJSON on stdout, typed error envelopes, and a stable exit-code enum — designed to be driven by a language model, not a human. Unofficial project. higgs is an independent, community-built CLI for Proton Mail. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Proton AG.
- ▪Schema manifest for tool use, NDJSON on stdout, typed error envelopes, and a stable exit-code enum — designed to be driven by a language model, not a human.
- ▪Unofficial project. higgs is an independent, community-built CLI for Proton Mail.
- ▪It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Proton AG.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,613 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/higgscli/higgs |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:15:07 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T15:40:01.091Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T15:40:01.091Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | AwrEzQcZKvFb · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
higgs An agent-first CLI for Proton Mail. Schema manifest for tool use, NDJSON on stdout, typed error envelopes, and a stable exit-code enum — designed to be driven by a language model, not a human. Unofficial project. higgs is an independent, community-built CLI for Proton Mail. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Proton AG. "Proton", "Proton Mail", and related marks are trademarks of Proton AG; this project uses them only to describe interoperability. Why this exists Wiring a normal CLI into an agent loop is painful. Stdout mixes prose and data, errors are English sentences, exit codes are 0-or-1, and the only tool specification is --help. higgs inverts that. Every design decision assumes the primary caller is a model: Schema manifest.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.