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Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness
- moonlighter 6mo agoWould love to be able to use this with my Claude Max Plan subscription ($100/month)... not going to pay with an API Key which burns through tokens way faster. Might try it for the local Apple Intelligence and accessibility to drive local apps tho.
- cyanydeez 6mo agotalk to claude.
- macOS26 6mo ago/extra-usage
- anentropic 6mo agoAnthropic don't allow that unfortunately
- macOS26 6mo agothird party apps are supported via the setup token. 'claude setup-token'
- sayYayToLife 6mo ago[dead]
- macOS26 6mo agoLatest version of Agent supports OAuth bearer tokens with Claude Code, via "claude setup-token", command from Claude. And there are over 17+ LLM Providers within Agent including local and cloud based solutions offered by Zai, HuggingFace, Ollama, etc. I agree on the token part. Until I incorporated Oauth for CC, I used mostly Zai GLM5-1 and used Ollama and Huggingface as fallback which is a new feature called "Fallback chains".
- danpalmer 6mo ago> Our Founder! of this project is battling cancer. Your Stars and Forks are appreciated. I'm sorry to hear this, but I'm also surprised that this is the first thing I learnt about this project, and that it is written in the third person. It detracts from the project.
- mrcwinn 6mo agoWhat a crazy comment. The first clause of your first sentence was more than enough.
- johannsg 6mo agoImagine seeing a cancer announcement and thinking, 'This is bad for the branding.' Your lack of empathy is what’s actually detracting here.
- macOS26 6mo agoI removed the Cancer banners. But I will tell you that I have physically gone through 2.5 weeks off hell. Chemo is no joke and I am 50% there. It gets tougher each time and the symptoms hit you in the middle of the week. And I also am getting booster shots that force white blood cells out of my bone marrow and it has severe side effects and all they can offer is over the counter Claritin. I've had days of fevers, dehydration, nausea, vomiting and still holding down a day job. So please don't be offended by my diagnosis or saying that stars and forks mean the world because it kind of does.
- macOS26 6mo agoSorry I responded to the nested reply. no offense.
- throwaway290 6mo agoI don't have a problem with mentioning cancer, but they should've mentioned which cancer to raise awareness and help others. The ribbon icon is gold which means pediatric/childhood cancer? Asking for stars and forks is where it gets weird. I understand a crowdfunding program but how is this going to help? Makes it even weirder that this is a completely anonymous, we don't know who works on it, and actually the project pretends to be authored by "AI". look at commit history and contributors I don't want to be cynical here, my dad was diagnosed with cancer too but this just feels like some LLM was given a prompt to maximize stars and forks and this is how that went. I am very sorry to say this.
- foreman_ 6mo ago[flagged]
- macOS26 6mo agoA little of both. System prompt guidance with programming structured flow undearneath the hood. May add more guardrails but the more you put in place the more the AI/LLM will find another way. I've locked down Agent! from one of its processes and run it in a VM and it tried everything it could to break out. It couldn't but it was fun watching it trying to resign compiled Dylibs, the Launch Agents / Daemons and itself. Because of SMAppService, it lost connection with its background process and once it basically hosed itself, I ended the experiment.
- apparatur 6mo agoEmoji in the macOS menu bar, that's new.
- gignico 6mo agoOff topic, but I sincerely ask: am I the only one that is disturbed by the use of the term "Mac OS X" to refer to modern versions of the OS that is currently called "macOS"? (and not MacOS either) I mean, the name was changed ten years ago...
- vintagedave 6mo agoLooks like the submitter used the wrong term - the actual link uses "macOS". But to answer the question: Yes! I opened thinking it was going to be some awesome Leopard or Lion app. I miss the name, mostly because the OS was interesting and fun in those days and boring and dreary and buggy and low contrast and poor UX and squircles and flat colours if it even has colours now.
- Hamuko 6mo agoIt wasn’t even “Mac OS X” ten years ago, but “OS X”. “Mac OS X” was 15 years ago.
- macOS26 6mo agoI don't think Mac from Mac OS X, was officially dropped, I think was like Xerox, we just stopped Mac from it an called it "OS X" even thought X stood for 10 from 10.0 to 10.15. This is also why Microsoft also tried the Windows 10 game and alluded to never having Windows 11 which obviously changed. Personally, I wish Apple would stop creating a new OS yearly. Most features users use were born in System 7/8/9 days.
- mettamage 6mo agoSo… What is a harness? People have been talking about it and couldn’t glean what it is
- miningape 6mo agoA while loop, some prompts basically amounting to "this is how you format a system call" and "make no mistakes", there's also a regex + executor for detecting and executing system calls.
- bsaul 6mo agoyou forgot the memory model. Which is an absolutely essential and hard to design part of the agent.
- cyanydeez 6mo agoand occasionally, UI prompts with QA.
- lostmsu 6mo agoMemory model? I would not want agent to remember previous conversations.
- pohl 6mo agoEver? You would not want to accumulate any useful context at all?
- lostmsu 6mo agoMaybe in the future but with the current models I found the constantly accessible memories to be an impediment. I don't want models to record and repeat mistakes or suboptimal strategies.
- QuercusMax 6mo ago
- jsomedon 6mo agoIs this "macos26" official Apple github account?
- DavidPiper 6mo agoNope, looks like someone's angling for some sweet domain parking money. Or a lawsuit, given macOS is a trademark.
- macOS26 6mo agoApple had plenty of time to reserve both macOS26 on Github and macOS26.app. They can send a C&D when they want to. And I will gladly change it.
- macOS26 6mo agoI was surprised it was even available. The goal to emphasize that it was built for macOS26 users. The original website is https://agent.macOS26.app https://agent.macOS26.app and it clear states it's for macOS26 even thought I still get users asking if it works with El Cap a tan.
- ammmir 6mo ago> Securely runs root-level commands via a dedicated macOS Launch Daemon lovely.
- ricardobeat 6mo agoIt’s a bit concerning that AI slop made by bots is getting 80 upvotes in here.
- macOS26 6mo agoThe Launch Daemon is 100% optional and can better turned off along with its tools. It's there to help users install things like software updates or disk commands that required elevated access. It operates under least priv. And the user must approve the Launch Agent (runs under use space, same as running locally within the App), and the Launch Daemon. There are 4 levels involved and the Daemon is last on the list and is rarely used. The user can just disable it and its tools get disabled as well. The LLM won't be able to use it in that state. What gets used: 1. AppleScript/Osascript TCC, runs within the app, user approve each app being automated 2. AgentScript/Swift Dylibs/ScriptingBridge, same TCC runs within the app 3. Local shell scripting - backup if the user's Launch Agent (user space is down 4. Launch Agent (runs in the user space), primary for running shell commands. 5. Launch Daemon, software updates, etc. Anything the previous 4 layers can't handle. Rarely ever used. can be turned off by the user. I have used it to access the security of the Mac itself and it was surprisingly accurate and thorough.
- maxbeech 6mo ago[dead]
- tylermw 6mo agoA non-Apple entity using "macOS26" as their organization name? Are you trying to trigger everyone's corporate phishing training?
- macOS26 6mo agoTechnically not an organization name. It's a username and a domain name, macOS26.app. If had a concern they had months ahead of time reserve I'm also the creator of BigMac, that supported unsupported macOS installs on old Mac Pro 2008-2012 hardware. Neither Apple nor McD's chimed in.
- macOS26 6mo agoFunny on the phishing, noted.
- evanjrowley 6mo agoRecently I tried a similar project: Fazm. It's also implemented in Swift, just like Agent here. The Fazm feature set is similar with with main differences are it's focused more on Claude exclusively. https://github.com/mediar-ai/fazm https://github.com/mediar-ai/fazm
- macOS26 6mo agoAgent! supports over 17+ LLM providers including local and remote LLMs.
- macOS26 6mo agoHello! I am the creator of Agent! macOS26.4+, and many won't know this but I have been coding AI apps and related tools from scratch for the past 3 years. I wanted to build something specifically for Mac but at an Agentic level. I'll remove the stars and forks from the banners. The ribbons are emojois. To raise awareness, I have stage 2 (T2) bladder Cancer. I have been extremely sick the past two weeks. Agent was created a month ago. But most of the work that was done in the past 3 years has been applied to Agent. If you want to be completely save, Agent does run on a macOS VM, but without any help from Apple Intelligence which runs various things locally. Some parts of Apple AI like Triage/Mediator are experimental. I chose macOS26 because no one else claimed it and wanted to make it clear what version of macOS the user needed. You'd be surprised how many people still asked if it ran on 10.14 Mojave.
- macOS26 6mo agoFor those wondering about Priv. Agent is built on least priv. It will Run TCC related tasks locally and each app that is being automated required consent from the user. same with automating Safari + user must check a few boxes in Developer tools for Safari. Then there's shell scripting which the preferred route is the Launch Agent which the user approves along with the Launch Daemon. If the Launch Agent is not available, shell scripts run locally. AgentScripts within in swift also run locally in the app. Anything priv. runs through the Launch Daemon. This is mostly used for software updates. Lately when creating a dmg using hdiutil, I have seen Agent securely ask for the the password and not use the launch daemon. The Daemon was created first as a test to see what would happen if an LLM had access to one. And under that mode it knew about 50 things it could run as an administrator of the computer. It was never ran in that state. and its 3-4 layers of access were created. The user can turn of the Launch Daemon and when this happens not only us the Daemon turned off, so are is access to the Launch Daemon tool. This model is used all over Agent! The user can turn off anything. I do plan to harden the Launch Agent and Launch Daemon on off access with Local Authentication and later a Pass-Key to prevent Agent! from turning it back on via things like Accessibility.
- macOS26 6mo agoIf anyone wants to know. My previous usernames are: 2020s SuperBox64, 2010s StarPlayrX, 2000s StarPlayr, 90s GoodTime, 80s Mirage, 80s WildFyre. Been using Macs since 1984. Mac OS X since 2000, beta 1. I really didn't think about humanizing the name. I just felt this flowed really well https://agent.macOS26.app https://agent.macOS26.app and https://github.com/macOS26/agent https://github.com/macOS26/agent I do want to thank those who have taken the time to look at the app and who have left feedback!