What ASIST sends out
This is a list of what ASIST sends out and what it receives from outside. When you click a link in the news or in search results, it opens in your default browser.
Conversation and voice
Section titled “Conversation and voice”| Sent to | What is sent | What comes back |
|---|---|---|
| The provider of the conversation model you chose (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cerebras) | The text of the conversation, the prompt, the parts of memory that relate to the conversation, and tool results | Replies and tool calls |
| The provider’s built-in web search (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) | The search terms the conversation model decides on | Search results |
| The OpenAI or Google Live API (only when you choose it as the voice engine) | Microphone audio, the recent history, and tool results | Audio and transcripts |
| The service behind the codex or claude CLI | The job’s prompt, the contents of the working folder that the CLI reads, and for memory curation, the conversation logs | The results of the work |
Speech recognition, voice activity detection, backchannel decisions and memory search run only on this Mac, and send out neither audio nor text.
Data for the cards
Section titled “Data for the cards”| Data | Source | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Weather (region is Japan) | Forecasts, AMeDAS observations and weather distribution forecasts from the Japan Meteorological Agency | Codes of the forecast area and the weather station |
| Weather (region outside Japan) | Forecasts and geocoding from Open-Meteo | The place name, latitude and longitude |
| World clock locations | Geocoding from Open-Meteo | The city name |
| Exchange rates | ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com) |
The base currency |
| News | Google News RSS | The topic, the language and the region |
| Map | Google’s Maps Embed API | The words for the place or the route |
Data from the Japan Meteorological Agency is shown with its source and a note that it has been processed (JMA terms of use). Open-Meteo is licensed under CC BY 4.0, and its free API is limited to non-commercial use and to a number of requests (such as 10,000 a day). ASIST uses no key, so requests are counted per connecting IP address, and the limit applies to each person, not to the app as a whole.
When fetching card data and models, ASIST sends ASIST/<version> (https://github.com/nyosegawa/asist) as the User-Agent.
Your accounts
Section titled “Your accounts”| Data | Connects to | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The IMAP and SMTP servers of the accounts you set up | Fetched mail is kept on this Mac. | |
| Calendar | The macOS calendar | macOS does the syncing with Google and iCloud. ASIST doesn’t connect to those services directly. |
Models, runtimes and updates
Section titled “Models, runtimes and updates”| What is downloaded | Source |
|---|---|
| Models that run on this Mac | Hugging Face (huggingface.co). Only the CPC weights come from dl.fbaipublicfiles.com |
| Python | The bundled uv downloads it from python-build-standalone on GitHub and checks it by hash. |
| Python packages | The bundled uv downloads them from PyPI and checks them against pinned hashes. |
| New versions of ASIST | GitHub Releases (github.com/nyosegawa/asist) |