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Published by Hacker News · Show HN (50+ points) (T2 source). The original is at https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac.

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Atticus is a macOS hold-to-talk assistant that routes simple tasks (opening apps, web search) through local processing and uses Claude via existing Pro or Max plans for complex tasks. It memoizes completed workflows to replay them without AI on subsequent runs, and prompts before sensitive actions such as deletes, sends, or purchases.

Firsthand build of a local-first routing pattern: trivial tasks skip the model, repeated workflows get cached and replayed, shrinking a 30s task to 5–8s on second run.

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