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ASIST is a realtime assistant for Mac and Windows that answers you by voice when you talk to it. It shows the weather, your events and your mail on cards beside the conversation. Longer research and file edits go to an Agent (the codex or claude CLI) once you approve them.

The ASIST home screen, with the conversation in the middle, an exchange rate card on the left, a weather card on the right and the Dock at the bottom

Getting startedWhat you need, installation, first-time setup, permissions and setting up the Agent

Using ASISTHow to talk to ASIST, and the cards

Mini appsAgent, tasks, notes, memory, mail, calendar, map and files

Connecting your calendar and mailGoogle Calendar, Gmail and iCloud

SettingsAppearance, language and region, models, voice and Agent

Safety and privacyUsing ASIST safely, where your data is kept, and what is sent out

TroubleshootingMicrophone, voice, API keys and logs

ReferenceThe models ASIST uses, how much memory they need, and what is bundled

To run ASIST from source, build it or make a release, see docs/development.md on GitHub.