Understand what your AI is saying.
First public release. Built in three days with Codex and GPT-5.6 for OpenAI Build Week 2026, Education track.
Highlight anything on your screen. Press Ctrl+Alt+E. Gloss answers with a plain-language decision card: what it is, why your agent suggested it here, what happens if you say yes or no, and whether you can undo it.
Highlights
- 🃏 Decision cards, not definitions. Built for the moment your AI asks you something.
- 👀 Screen context. One screenshot per lookup so GPT-5.6 answers about your project.
- 🌏 Translate to Any language. ten presets, or type your own. Real terms stay in English with a gloss.
- 📖 A glossary that keeps score. "You learned 9 concepts this week."
- 🐣 A desktop pet. It's Gloss himself, small and on your desk. He thinks while thinking happens. Drag him anywhere.
- 🖥️ Works everywhere. Any app, terminal-safe by design. No accounts, no server, your own key.
Install
- Download
Gloss-Setup-0.1.0.exefrom the Assets below. - SmartScreen will warn (unsigned hackathon build). Click More info, then Run anyway.
- Paste any OpenAI API key on first run. Stored on your device, sent only to OpenAI. A lookup costs about half a cent.
Full docs, roadmap, and the build story: README.
Windows 10/11 · MIT · There is a pet.