What you can do with Atticus Mac

5 use cases

• Arrange windows and open apps by voice on your Mac

  Hold a shortcut, say what you need, and Atticus moves windows and opens apps across your displays.

  • Atticus Mac
  • Personal productivity
  • Beginner
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  Using the repo SaarthurR/atticus-mac, set up Atticus on a Mac so that the request "<your layout request>" arranges the named windows across the displays. Expected output: the windows are placed as described and the second run of the same request finishes faster. Verify by checking that the windows match the layout after one repeat of the request.

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• Find files by what they contain and open them on another screen

  Ask Atticus for a file by its topic and it searches inside your files and opens the match.

  • Atticus Mac
  • Personal productivity
  • Beginner
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  Using the repo SaarthurR/atticus-mac, ask Atticus to find files about <topic> by their contents. Expected output: the best matching file opens on the other display. Verify that the opened file contains the topic named in the request.

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• Get step-by-step help on anything on your screen

  Point at part of the screen, ask a question, and Atticus draws the steps over what you see.

  • Atticus Mac
  • Personal productivity
  • Beginner
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  Using the repo SaarthurR/atticus-mac, mark a spot on the screen with Point at your screen and ask "<your question>". Expected output: Atticus draws the steps over the screen, one at a time. Verify that the first mark sits on the control named in the question.

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• Dictate text into any text field on your Mac

  Hold fn, speak, and release to type your words into the field you are using.

  • Atticus Mac
  • Personal productivity
  • Beginner
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  Using the repo SaarthurR/atticus-mac, dictate a short sentence into a text field with the fn key in Verbatim mode. Expected output: the spoken sentence appears in the field. Verify that the text matches what was said and that nothing was typed twice.

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• Send a follow-up to an AI agent running in your terminal

  Say an instruction and Atticus types it into the terminal window while you keep working.

  • Atticus Mac
  • Claude Code
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the repo SaarthurR/atticus-mac, ask Atticus to tell the agent in the terminal window to <instruction>. Expected output: the instruction is typed into that terminal window. Verify that the window received the text and that Atticus confirmed the send or asked for the window.

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How to use Atticus Mac

1. Check you have what it needs: A Mac; A Claude Pro or Max plan, or a local model server such as Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp or vLLM; Claude Code installed (needed for the local model setup; the README says it does not require a Claude account in that case).
2. Open SaarthurR/atticus-mac on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install Atticus from its GitHub repository and open it on your Mac.
4. Hold ⌃ control, ⌥ option and space together, then say the layout you want, for example: "Code on my big screen, Chrome and Terminal on the laptop."
5. Release the keys and let Atticus arrange the windows across your displays.
6. Say "Open Spotify" or "Terminal on the left" to test instant commands, which run without AI.

These steps come from our top use case, Arrange windows and open apps by voice on your Mac, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forMac users who want hands-free control of apps, windows and files, and who have a Claude Pro or Max plan or a local model server.
• Why it is hot
• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• A Mac
• A Claude Pro or Max plan, or a local model server such as Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp or vLLM
• Claude Code installed (needed for the local model setup; the README says it does not require a Claude account in that case)
• Permission for Atticus to use the microphone and Accessibility controls

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