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Openbird | Local-first macOS activity journal

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Openbird is an experimental accessibility-first proof of concept for local personal context on macOS.

Openbird extracts local context from the frontmost app, focused window, browser URL when available, and visible accessibility text in the active window. It is intentionally narrow. Openbird is a proof of concept focused on the accessibility pipeline only, not screenshots or broad device surveillance. The goal is to learn what a trustworthy personal-context layer should look like before this capability is integrated natively into char.com. Everything stays on your Mac by default, and you can inspect the log, pause capture, exclude apps and domains, choose your own model, and delete data…

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