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sidclaw

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About sidclaw

The approval and accountability layer for agentic AI. Identity, Policy, Approval, Trace — one SDK. Open source. https://sidclaw.com

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    Comment #49110409

    fair, it isn't fully native. The dictation helper is the only native piece, the UI is a local web page. That was a deliberate tradeoff to get Qwen3-ASR running through MLX on macOS…

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    it's just GitHub interpreting the Co-Authored-By lines in the commits. I used Claude Code quite heavily while building this, so it shows up as @claude in the contributor list — it …

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    good point. I haven’t tested MacPorts, but the app currently looks for ffmpeg on PATH, and the Finder launcher doesn’t include MacPorts usual /opt/local/bin. So it may not detect i…

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    Comment #49100790

    At least English, German, French, Russian, Italian, and Spanish. You can either select them right in the app or let it auto-detect (which it does pretty well). I think more languag…

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    Well, at least one of us respects it :)

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    Handy is honestly more mature than mine — cross platform, MIT, and you can pick between Whisper and Parakeet. The real difference is just the model family. I run Qwen3-ASR through …

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    way better from my point of view. I frequently have recordings made in noisy environments. Whisper does not do the job well under such conditions. Also, Qwen respects gramma a lot …

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