most of the shelf is a link. these six aren't, and can't be. four are macos apps that read your screen or move other apps' windows, which is a grant you give a binary and not a tab. one clones your voice on your own gpu because no hosted service does it for free. one is a deployed worker with its route deliberately left off. so this page is the install instructions instead of the door.
a dj that watches you work. it sits in the menu bar, reads which app is focused and how hard you're typing, and every ninety seconds takes a downscaled screenshot and asks what the room feels like. then it plays music that fits, blending between two decks. you can talk to it — "something calmer", "no vocals while i'm writing", "stop playing techno, ever".
needs nothing for make dev · screen recording + an anthropic key for the real app
srcthe foley layer of b2b-sass, cut loose from the music and made askable. say make everything sound like a submarine and a minute later switching windows is a sonar ping and clicking is a bulkhead tap. none of those existed before you asked — they get written as recipes and rendered on your machine, and they work offline forever after. it reads typing and scroll rate as event counts, so it knows how hard you're typing and nothing at all about what you typed.
needs nothing · a key only buys you new sounds, and the eyes buy comic timing
srca screen-time app with someone on the other side of the decision. it doesn't block, it degrades: go past a limit you set yourself and the page starts going all caps, then comic sans, then blurred, then buried under faux ads from 2004. and a second cursor peels off your own pointer, glides to your title bar, and hauls the window away from you. it is the system arrow at the system size, deliberately, so for the first second you can't tell which of the two you're moving. it never writes words over your desktop — a box of prose hovering there is unmistakably software addressing you, and that undoes the whole effect. it speaks instead. there's a real agent behind it with a grant_pass tool it can actually call, and a ledger of every excuse you've ever given it.
needs accessibility — nothing works without it · two api keys, taken in settings §02 and stored in the keychain · optionally load build/extension unpacked in chrome, which is the good delivery route
srca little agent that finds the thing you lost in the mess, and then explodes. you hit a key, a small creature pops in next to your cursor, you tell it what you're looking for, and it scurries visibly across the desktop narrating in a bad synthesized voice. it searches window titles by what's written inside them, which is the whole game when six of them are called "untitled". the death isn't decoration: an assistant that hangs around is a thing you have to dismiss and a thing you feel watched by. the number in the menu bar is the body count.
needs accessibility · an anthropic key · summon with ⌃⌥Space — not ⌥Space, which macos eats as a non-breaking space before any global hotkey sees it
srcrecord a voice memo, and hear it summarized back in your own voice, being insufferable — stretched vowels, your own filler words mirrored at higher density, and whatever you were tentatively circling around restated as smug settled fact. the trick is that the memo is its own voice reference: the cloning is zero-shot, so there's no enrollment step. you talk, and ten seconds later it's you. local-only by constraint rather than by choice — there is no free hosted voice cloning, so the models run on your own machine.
needs 4.1 gb of models · an anthropic key in .env · apple silicon (mlx + metal) · leave it running: cold-loading the models costs ~13s, which you don't want to pay per memo
srctwo voice prototypes on one webrtc connection. talk answers, looks things up when it should, and stops talking when you cut in. ad libs is a backup singer that throws one- and two-word ad-libs over you — ya! sheesh! one time! — and its main move is call and response, so set one up and it takes it: "that's what i said" gets "that's what she said!". your words land large on a track sheet with the ad-lib they drew underneath, because without that pairing a callback is answering nothing. the worker is deployed, but its route is deliberately left off, so nobody can reach it. that is the only reason it's on this page rather than the other one.
needs an openai key — the realtime api, not anthropic · a mic
srcthe source links point into shenaniganry/august, one private repo holding the whole shelf. while it's private they will 404 for everyone but me, which is why every entry above carries its full instructions inline rather than deferring to a readme. · shart.putty.inc has the other fifty.