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Show HN: Nico – a two-agent type personal agent on your Mac

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Show HN: Nico – a two-agent type personal agent on your Mac
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Hi HN. I'm Brian, I make Xmind, the most popular mind mapping app, since 2006. This is my new project Nico, a personal agent for the Mac.Every huge companies are building personal agents right now. The part I think matters most is the two-agent structure, so that's what Nico is built around.The front agent talks to you. Always available, only one session, one memory, continuously compaction, and it carries almost no tools, so it can answer fast.The worker agent does the job. It picks up tasks the front agent puts in an inbox and reports back when they're done. It almost never talks to you; anything it needs goes through the front agent.I think this is the real step forward, but the attention goes to the cloud computer. I get why: you can hand the agent a task from your phone. But, it also makes everything more complicated. People need to upload the entire environment whileSo I built one with the cloud computer taken out. Nico is a native Mac app. You hold the right ⌘ key (or fn) and talk; the front agent answers by voice; the worker agent is pi (github.com/earendil-works/pi) runs by your own AI subscription, in a sandbox.With computer-use (via cua-driver), browser-use (via a…

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