holmes
your open source personal macos ai agent
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Details
- External ID
- 1272169
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- holmes
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
Holmes is a personal AI agent for your Mac, powered by local models through Ollama. It sees what you're working on and takes action across your apps. No cloud, no API keys, nothing leaves your machine. Fully open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop ai assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source ai agent for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Connecting to local Ollama models is straightforward, but autonomously inspecting dynamic macOS desktop states and reliably executing OS-level actions across arbitrary apps requires complex systems integration.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native macOS daemon written in Swift leveraging the macOS Accessibility API (AXUIElement), ScreenCaptureKit for desktop observation, and AppleScript/CoreGraphics for synthetic event generation. The challenging component is building a reliable multimodal vision-to-action agent loop that can accurately ground UI coordinates and recover from unexpected UI states without human intervention.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 188 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #68 of 189 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- Osaurus · ph · 2026-07-13 · 535 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- open-dot · github · 2026-09-29 · 488 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OpenCharm · ph · 2026-10-09 · 89 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- pennant · github · 2026-10-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Echo · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Melete · ph · 2026-10-09 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AgentOS · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ZEON Solutions AI · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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