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Ambient Context A macOS menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you work on, for your own LLM to read. While the eye in your menu bar is open, Ambient Context reads the text of whichever window you have focused (via the macOS accessibility tree, every few seconds) and appends it to a plain markdown file: one file per day, in a folder you choose. Point Claude Code or any other agent at that folder and it can answer "what did I work on Tuesday?", build memory about your projects, or write your standup for you.
- ▪Ambient Context A macOS menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you work on, for your own LLM to read.
- ▪While the eye in your menu bar is open, Ambient Context reads the text of whichever window you have focused (via the macOS accessibility tree, every few seconds) and appends it to a plain markdown file: one file per day, in a folder you cho
- ▪Point Claude Code or any other agent at that folder and it can answer "what did I work on Tuesday?", build memory about your projects, or write your standup for you.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/dragthelake/ambient-context |
| Publication time | Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:33:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-25T20:58:12.729Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-25T20:58:12.729Z |
| 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 | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| 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.
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Ambient Context A macOS menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you work on, for your own LLM to read. While the eye in your menu bar is open, Ambient Context reads the text of whichever window you have focused (via the macOS accessibility tree, every few seconds) and appends it to a plain markdown file: one file per day, in a folder you choose. Point Claude Code or any other agent at that folder and it can answer "what did I work on Tuesday?", build memory about your projects, or write your standup for you. No screenshots, no video. It reads text through the accessibility API, nothing else. Nothing leaves your machine. No account, no server, no telemetry, no bundled model. This build makes no network calls at all; the signed release will add a single update check against GitHub.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.