What the system can doYour Mac
One family of actions
Your Mac
See the Mac’s screen, click and type, open apps, read files, and run any command or program installed on it.
A small program running on the Mac takes requests from dispatch and carries them out there, with the apps and accounts already signed in on that Mac.
Live, read from this site just now.
The groups in this family, counted just now: — actions
This family among all — actions in the Directory, one square each
Each action is one row in the Directory, sorted into this family by the start of its name.
What it can do
What the actions in this family do, group by group.
Each card is a group of actions that do similar work. The number on each card is how many actions are in that group right now.
Switch to “For your developer” to see the real name of every action.
The real name of every action, read from the Directory just now. Names that contain a supplier’s name are left out of the lists, and still counted.
See the screen and click
—Take a screenshot, read every button and label in a window, click an element by its label, and type or press keys in the app in front.
Open apps and pages
—Open an app, a file or a web address, bring an app to the front, and list what is running and which windows are open.
Read the Mac’s apps
—Read what is in Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Reminders, Mail, Photos, Music, Numbers, Keynote, Pages, Excel, Word, Outlook and other apps, and list connected Bluetooth devices.
Files and clipboard
—Read, write, edit, list and search files, download a file from a link, send a file by AirDrop, and read or set the clipboard.
Run commands and programs
—Run a shell command (a line typed into the Mac’s Terminal), an AppleScript or a script, and use each command-line program installed on the Mac (git, Python, Node, ffmpeg, ImageMagick, pandoc and others) as its own row.
Search what the Mac and iPhone can do
—Search a catalogue of the actions the Mac and a paired iPhone can perform, run one by its id, or combine several into a new one.
The machine
—Check battery, network, open ports, running programs and Focus mode, keep the Mac awake, post a notification, and read its location.
Uses
What a business uses these actions for.
Examples of the work these actions do. They describe uses, not results.
Take a screenshot of an app to see what a customer sees.
Read today’s events from the Mac’s Calendar app.
Work a desktop app that has no other connection, by clicking its buttons by name.
Run a script you already use, from a text.
How it is run
How any of these actions is run.
The same way as every other action in the Directory: one request, the same permissions, one record.
You don’t have to pick an action yourself. You text what you want; the AI assistant picks the action and runs it within the permissions you set. The result comes back to you, and the request, the result and who asked are written to the Ledger, the record of everything the system has done.
Every action is one row in the Directory, and each row can be run — ways: a text, a link, a spreadsheet cell, an iPhone Shortcut, a command, or an AI model’s request. Every way goes through dispatch: one web address that looks the action up, checks the permissions, runs it on the right computer, sends back the result and writes a Ledger entry. The same action answers every way, under the same limits.
Dispatch takes an HTTP POST (a standard web request) of {"key": "<action name>", "args": {…}}. The same key works over the API (the web address your software calls), MCP (Model Context Protocol, the standard way AI apps connect to outside tools), the command line (CLI), a webhook (an address another program posts to), a spreadsheet cell or a Shortcut. A token (a key or a link) can be limited to exactly the actions you allow; every call, and every refusal, is a Ledger entry.
// One action from this family, as dispatch receives it
{ "key": "…", "args": { … } }Ask for this.
The text below opens ready to send. Add a line about your business, and I’ll reply with what this family of actions would do for it.
Every family
Everything else the system can do.
Every family of actions, with how many actions it has right now.