Grux 3.0

Grux 3.0

Grux is a Mac agent that listens, decides, and does things on your machine. It
runs locally, it is MIT licensed, and it does not need an account.

The thing you see first: one Command Panel.

The sidebar is gone. Grux opens on a 420 point panel: one input, a Now list of
what needs you, and the Optimize Grux card. Anything you open (Chat, Today,
Settings, Mail) slides in as one pane beside it and closes back down. The old
sidebar stays for one release under Settings, General, Shell.

The thing that changed underneath: Grux now decides in one place.

Every small judgment Grux makes for you (was that meant for me, does this mail
need you, is this command dangerous, is now a bad moment to interrupt) used to
be a keyword list or a hand-written rule scattered through the code. In 3.0
they all go through one decision engine, and you can see and tune every one of
them on a single page.

What you will notice first

• Only you answer a workflow's question. A workflow waiting on you takes
  its answer from a message you send after it asked, in a word it asked for.
  An older reply makes it ask again, and an agent's message never answers it.
• Dry runs change nothing. Any workflow, including the App Store ones, can
  run dry end to end. No tool call, command, webhook, banner or phone push
  leaves Grux, and every line it says starts with "Dry run".
• Chat opens on your newest message and keeps your place through Show
  earlier and window resizes.
• First run is one question. "What do you want to do with Grux?" The rest
  of setup is built from your answer, one thing at a time.
• Tuning. One page for everything Grux does on your behalf: how sure it
  must be before acting, how it talks back, when it may interrupt, what it
  does on its own, what it spends, what it remembers, and what always asks
  first. Opened from the orb.
• A spoken command you say outright now runs without touching the network.
  It used to take a 368ms round trip to be told what your Mac already knew. It
  is now about 1ms.
• Grux stops asking permission to do nothing. 72 of its 116 tools had no
  safety classification, so reading a list of files or opening an app queued up
  and waited for you. Only the 44 that change something now ask.

Two things we got wrong and fixed

We said, in this app's own settings and in the dialog that asks for your
microphone, that listening makes Music and YouTube go tinny. We measured it.
It is not true, and it never was. What listening actually did was take the
microphone away from any other app that was recording. That is fixed, and the
claim is gone from every screen that carried it.

Grux could also lose its audio feed mid-session and keep reporting itself as
listening, with every indicator saying it was fine. Found on a real machine
after 1 hour 40 minutes of it. It now notices in eight seconds.

Speed, said plainly

A spoken command reaches execution in about 1.5 seconds, down from 3.1. We
were aiming at 600ms and did not get there. The reason is worth stating
instead of burying: transcription has a floor of about 750ms on the model Grux
uses, and the pause Grux waits out before acting is another 600ms. Trimming
the audio was measured and changed nothing. Getting to 600ms needs recognition
that runs while you are still speaking, which is a build, not a setting, and
it is what 3.1 is for.

Full notes: CHANGELOG.md.