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Public Wi-Fi can keep its green connection icon after portal authorization expires. I built a conservative macOS watcher that detects the mismatch, surfaces the sign-in page, and leaves consent to the human.
Branches record intent, but worktrees and scoped commit hooks make parallel local agent work isolated, reviewable, and safer to integrate.
Git blame preserves authorship, but engineers often need intent. Git Explain uses deterministic local git retrieval and a bounded tiny local model pass to reconstruct why a line exists.
Grep is excellent at exact strings and weak at intent. A local semantic retrieval primitive lets developers search code by meaning under strict constraints: local-first, secure-by-default, CPU-friendly, and minimal dependencies.
Shell history stores actions, but engineers remember problems. Terminal Memory uses local embeddings to retrieve command sequences by intent with no cloud APIs and no generative layer in v1.