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

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Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
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A new macOS utility called bigarrow allows AI agents to visually point to specific UI elements on a user's screen. The tool is designed to help agents guide users through manual tasks that require human interaction without needing system permissions or capturing data.

Why it matters

As AI agents become more autonomous, they face 'last-mile' problems where human intervention is required; this tool provides a non-intrusive way to bridge that gap.

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big-arrow-on-the-screen ( bigarrow ): one small macOS CLI and an agent skill. Click-through, never steals the focus, gone by itself. MIT.

Your AI agent can refactor a monorepo, write a migration and explain monads, but when it needs you to click one button it prints "please click Allow in the dialog" into a terminal you are not looking at. bigarrow gives it a finger.

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