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Open-source macOS tool bigarrow enables AI agents to visually guide users with non-intrusive screen overlays

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bigarrow is an open-source macOS CLI tool designed for AI agents, enabling them to draw click-through, non-focus-stealing arrows and text on the screen. It solves the problem of agents relying solely on terminal text by providing visual cues to guide users through specific GUI actions like clicking 'Allow', requiring no special permissions to operate.

LATEST/bigarrow is an open-source macOS CLI tool designed for AI agents, enabling them to draw click-through, non-focus-stealing arrows and text on the screen. It solves the problem of agents relying solely on terminal text by providing visual cues to guide users through specific GUI actions like clicking 'Allow', requiring no special permissions to operate.

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  1. Hacker News AIT2·68 pts

    Open-source macOS tool bigarrow enables AI agents to visually guide users with non-intrusive screen overlays

    Original: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

    • bigarrow is a lightweight Swift binary with no daemon, no telemetry, and no internal AI models.
    • Key features include being click-through, never stealing focus, working across all displays/Spaces, and requiring zero permissions to draw.
    • Supports JSON output and clear exit codes (0-4), facilitating programmatic invocation and error handling by AI agents.