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What you can do with Ambient Context

Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that records text from your focused window into plain markdown files so AI assistants can read what you worked on.

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5 use cases

  • Give your AI assistant the day's work without pasting it

    Register the app as an MCP server so your assistant can read the day's record and notes directly.

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    Using the ambient-context MCP server from the dedupedai repo of dragthelake/ambient-context, read the day <placeholder> with the reading-days tools and summarise the work in five bullet points. Expected output: five bullets, each tied to a block in the record. Verify that every bullet names an app or file path that appears in the Days folder for that date.

  • Draft a standup from what you actually did

    Turn the day's written record into a standup update grounded in what was on screen.

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    In the dragthelake/ambient-context repo, use the standup skill to draft a standup for <placeholder date> from the Summaries file for that day. Expected output: three short sections titled Yesterday, Today and Blockers. Verify that each item traces to a block in Days/<placeholder date>/ before it is spoken.

  • Find the page or file you saw earlier today

    Search the day's record for an excerpt and open the document path or URL it points to.

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    In the dragthelake/ambient-context record folder, search the Days files for <placeholder phrase> and list each match with its app, time and any file path or URL. Expected output: a list of matches with timestamps. Verify that each listed path or URL opens the original document.

  • Build a cited knowledge base of people and commitments

    Get six cited pages on people, commitments, threads, products, issues and reading from one day.

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    Using the dragthelake/ambient-context knowledge folder, read KB/<placeholder date>/commitments.md and list each commitment with its owner and cited block. Expected output: a table with columns commitment, owner and source block. Verify that every row has a citation that exists in Days/<placeholder date>/.

  • Tighten capture rules after reviewing a day

    Use the record to set rules that stop capturing apps, sites or text you do not want kept.

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    In the dragthelake/ambient-context app, use the tune rules skill to review the Context records for <placeholder date> and propose capture rules for apps or sites that should not be kept. Expected output: a short list of proposed rules, each naming the app or site and the action. Verify each proposal against the block it came from before applying it.

How to use Ambient Context

  1. Check you have what it needs: A Mac on macOS 14 or later with Apple Silicon; Accessibility permission granted to Ambient Context; A folder you choose to hold the record, ideally outside iCloud Drive.
  2. Open dragthelake/ambient-context on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. Download the signed, notarised DMG from Releases, drag Ambient Context.app to Applications and open it.
  4. Grant Accessibility when asked, then choose a folder to save the record in.
  5. Run claude mcp add --scope user --transport stdio ambient-context -- "/Applications/Ambient Context.app/Contents/MacOS/ambient-context" mcp
  6. Open the Agent tab, pick an agent CLI and press Process day on a recorded day.

These steps come from our top use case, Give your AI assistant the day's work without pasting it, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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Requirements

  • A Mac on macOS 14 or later with Apple Silicon
  • Accessibility permission granted to Ambient Context
  • A folder you choose to hold the record, ideally outside iCloud Drive
  • An agent CLI you already have (Claude Code, Codex or opencode) for Knowledge and Notes
  • An MCP client such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor or Zed for the tool connection
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Questions about Ambient Context

What is Ambient Context?

Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that records text from your focused window into plain markdown files so AI assistants can read what you worked on. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/dragthelake/ambient-context.

Who is Ambient Context for?

Mac users on Apple Silicon who want their AI assistant to know what they saw and did during the day without pasting it in by hand.

What can I do with Ambient Context?

5 use cases so far, for example: Give your AI assistant the day's work without pasting it; Draft a standup from what you actually did; Find the page or file you saw earlier today. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run Ambient Context?

A Mac on macOS 14 or later with Apple Silicon; Accessibility permission granted to Ambient Context; A folder you choose to hold the record, ideally outside iCloud Drive; An agent CLI you already have (Claude Code, Codex or opencode) for Knowledge and Notes.

What are alternatives to Ambient Context?

Other hot AI repos in Personal productivity: Abacusai Bot, Unigit Ecosystem, Comma, Agent Peer Chat, Compass.

Is Ambient Context safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.