Clippy 0.2.0

Dictation

Three engines to choose between in Settings ▸ Dictation: Apple's built-in
recogniser (default, nothing to download, streams as you speak), local
Whisper, or local Parakeet v3, which detects the language itself and is
the fastest of the three on the Neural Engine. Both local engines transcribe
entirely on your Mac.

The local engines now record the whole push-to-talk hold and transcribe once
you let go — the pipeline shape Handy uses —
so the end of a sentence no longer gets clipped. A Silero VAD drops silence
before the model ever sees it, which is what stops Whisper hallucinating a
"Thank you." into a pause.

An existing "use local Whisper" preference carries over to the new picker.

A Windows 95 skin

Settings and the full chat window are restyled: navy title bars with working
minimise / maximise / close, etched group boxes, square tick boxes, sunken
text fields, a sunken chat well with a proper checkerboard scrollbar, and a
status strip along the bottom. The chat window's face is translucent over a
blur of what's behind it.

The floating balloon, onboarding, and chat history are unchanged.

Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.

Clippy 0.1.1

Screen automation fixes and a reviewable guardrail policy.

Typing

• Types into the field you asked for, on its own line, instead of overwriting the document you pointed it at.

Guardrails

• The refusal rules now live in Resources/prismor-policy.yaml rather than in Swift, so changing what Clippy will and won't touch is a reviewable diff. It fails closed: a missing or uncompilable policy stops screen actions entirely.
• Closed two gaps in the form-field veto, and added Subscribe to the refusal list.

Build

• Universal DMG, Apple Silicon and Intel. Built by CI after the unit tests and the offline safety eval pass.

Clippy 0.1.0

First public build of Clippy for macOS — a floating desktop assistant that can see your screen and act on it.

Install: download Clippy-macOS-universal.dmg below (attached once the build finishes, ~3 min), open it, and drag Clippy to Applications. Universal — Apple Silicon and Intel.

This build is ad-hoc signed and not notarized, so macOS will warn on first open: right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

On first launch Clippy asks for Accessibility and Screen Recording. Both are needed for it to read the screen and act on it; without them it still answers in words.

In this release

• Screen-aware automation: screenshot plus accessibility scan on every request, scrolling to find off-screen controls, one-step-at-a-time re-planning, and a safety layer that stops before anything that sends, buys, deletes, or enters a password.
• Chat through an existing Claude Code or Codex login, or your own OpenAI/Anthropic key.
• Long-term memory: tell it something about yourself once and it carries across chats. Everything it stores is listed and deletable in Settings.
• Dictation, spoken replies, file attachments, custom prompts, and a configurable balloon menu.