Show HN: Hunch – A local MCP that lets your LLM use your Mac in the background
Hunch Drive your Mac with any LLM: focus-free, in the background, over MCP. Hunch is an MCP server that gives an LLM agent hands on your Mac: your installed apps, your logged-in sessions, your files, without taking over your screen. While you keep working in the foreground, an agent can read a background app's UI, click its buttons, drive Mail or Music by AppleScript, fill a web form, or move files.
- ▪Hunch Drive your Mac with any LLM: focus-free, in the background, over MCP.
- ▪Hunch is an MCP server that gives an LLM agent hands on your Mac: your installed apps, your logged-in sessions, your files, without taking over your screen.
- ▪While you keep working in the foreground, an agent can read a background app's UI, click its buttons, drive Mail or Music by AppleScript, fill a web form, or move files.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,816 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
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/PrithviSeran/hunch-mcp |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:39:47 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T19:45:57.217Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T19:45:57.217Z |
| 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 | 2R3T3FjX7KpY · 2 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
Hunch Drive your Mac with any LLM: focus-free, in the background, over MCP. Hunch is an MCP server that gives an LLM agent hands on your Mac: your installed apps, your logged-in sessions, your files, without taking over your screen. While you keep working in the foreground, an agent can read a background app's UI, click its buttons, drive Mail or Music by AppleScript, fill a web form, or move files. It works on real native apps, not just a browser. Works best with modern LLMs. Hunch ships a detailed playbook as MCP server instructions; capable tool-using models (Claude Sonnet/Opus-class and up) follow it well. Smaller models may pick clumsier paths (screenshots and keystrokes instead of tree reads and clicks). The four layers Hunch always prefers the most direct layer.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.