🧊 Qubie

a little guy who lives on your Mac

he watches · he remembers · he builds you things

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Every memory tool waits for you to go open it.

That's fine, unless the thing your brain can't do is remembering to open things.

So Qubie doesn't wait.

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what he does

🧠 remembers — what you read, watched, worked on. You don't file anything. 🔨 builds — ask for a tool, get a widget. It's Lua. Open it. Change it. 👀 watches — on-device, 1–2Hz, nothing leaves the Mac. 💬 speaks up — on his own, when something's actually worth it.

the loop

flowchart LR
    A([👀 sees<br/>1–2 Hz]) --> B{worth<br/>saying?}
    B -->|no, 99% of the time| A
    B -->|yes| C([💬 bubble])
    C --> D{did you<br/>care?}
    D -->|kept| E[(📚 learn<br/>say more like that)]
    D -->|dismissed| F[(🤫 learn<br/>say less like that)]
    E --> A
    F --> A

    style B fill:#fef3c7,stroke:#d97706,color:#000
    style C fill:#dbeafe,stroke:#2563eb,color:#000
    style E fill:#dcfce7,stroke:#16a34a,color:#000
    style F fill:#fee2e2,stroke:#dc2626,color:#000

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Every bubble he fires becomes training data for whether he should have.

manners

The hard part isn't knowing things. It's knowing when to shut up.

rule	value
🔕 max interruptions	3 / hour
⏳ quiet between them	8 min
🤐 while you're talking	never
💤 told "not worth it"	hushes 2 min
🌫️ bubbles	vanish, no inbox

A thing that talks constantly gets closed on day one.

what's inside

flowchart TD
    subgraph mac ["🖥️ your Mac — all of it, all the time"]
        S["🪟 Swift shell<br/><i>floating window · gaze · screen</i>"]
        R["⚙️ Rust sidecar<br/><i>one binary, every organ</i>"]
        G[("🕸️ Kuzu graph<br/><i>every noun is a node</i>")]
        P["🧿 perception<br/><i>MobileCLIP · ANE · 5ms</i>"]
        L["🎨 Lua widgets<br/><i>he writes them, you edit them</i>"]
    end
    C["☁️ big model<br/><i>only when he talks</i>"]

    S <--> R
    R <--> G
    P --> R
    R --> L
    R -.optional.-> C

    style mac fill:#f8fafc,stroke:#94a3b8
    style G fill:#ede9fe,stroke:#7c3aed,color:#000
    style P fill:#ccfbf1,stroke:#0d9488,color:#000
    style C fill:#f1f5f9,stroke:#cbd5e1,color:#000,stroke-dasharray: 4 3

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Watching is free — it runs on the Neural Engine. He only costs money when he speaks.

try him

./build.sh        # swift build + cargo release + sign → dist/Qub.app
open dist/Qub.app

First run asks for mic + screen recording. Models download once into home/. Quit a running Qubie first — build.sh starts by deleting the old bundle.

honest status

early alpha. He lives on one machine and that machine is mine.

✅ works	memory · voice · widgets · watching · unprompted bubbles
🚧 rough	packaging, notarization, first-run, anything not-my-Mac
🔜 next	the learned model that decides when to speak (today it's a rule I tuned by hand)
❌ not yet	speaking bubbles out loud · iPhone

the tree

path	what
native/	AppKit shell — floating window, cursor gaze, carry detection, ScreenCaptureKit
web/	the character — WebGL body, SVG face, the talk loop
sidecar-rs/	the engine. One Rust binary on :8787. Ears, mouth, memory, agent, widgets
home/	his brain. The graph, models, ontology. Yours, gitignored, never leaves
docs/	why things are the way they are
bench/	evals. qubeval/ is the live one — it fails the build on regression
spike/	the proofs. Small runnable crates that had to pass before a big decision was allowed

license

Apache 2.0. Take him apart.

_{built by @shinyobjectz · for brains that drop things}