Say "Hey Aura" and your Mac comes alive. Color-coded shadow cursors drive every MCP-connected tool, build workflows on demand, mentor you through unfamiliar apps, run end-to-end UX tests, and stream telemetry of every action — all voice-first.
Mail agent shadow cursor reading the inbox, drafting a reply, and waiting for explicit approval before sending.
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Voice
On-device wake-word detection — no audio sent to the cloud until you confirm. Aura transcribes locally, snapshots your live screen, and reasons about the request before any agent moves.
Wake-word → STT → agent reasoning → first cursor moves. The full voice loop in 30 seconds.
demo-wake-word-flow.mp4
"Hey Aura" detected by an on-device model. Audio never leaves the Mac until the wake word fires.
Aura snapshots what's visible (with privacy redaction) and the transcript becomes the agent's task brief.
A planning agent picks which scoped sub-agents (Mail / Calendar / Browser / Research / Notes / Summary) handle the work. You see them go.
When the agents finish, Aura synthesizes the result and reads it back. ElevenLabs TTS or system voice — your pick.
Shadow Cursors
Every Aura sub-agent gets its own colored shadow cursor on screen. Not abstractions — actual pointers you can watch click, type, and read across native apps and web tabs. The cursors moving on this page are doing exactly what they'd do on your Mac.
Reads, drafts, sends, archives in Apple Mail or Gmail.
Schedules, reschedules, finds free slots.
Drives Chrome/Safari via Chrome MCP — forms, scrapes, multi-step flows.
Searches the web, summarizes, cites sources.
Captures, recalls, files into Aura's memory.
Condenses long threads, transcripts, docs into briefs.
Multiple shadow cursors moving in parallel across the desktop — one per sub-agent — color-coded by role.
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Aura Skills
Aura is more than a thin wrapper around MCP servers. Speak intent and Aura builds workflows, mentors you through unfamiliar apps, runs end-to-end UX tests, and streams structured telemetry — all from your voice.
Speak a multi-step task and Aura builds a live workflow. Linear → Slack → Calendar in one prompt. Saved for next time.
demo-workflow-builder.mp4
Stuck in Concur, Workday, anything? Aura takes the cursor, walks each click with annotations, hands control back.
demo-show-me-how.mp4
Hand Aura a flow. It clicks, types, navigates, verifies — like a real user. QA, regressions, demo recordings, onboarding paths.
demo-e2e-testing.mp4
Every shadow-cursor action streams structured telemetry to Loki / DataDog / Honeycomb / your webhook.
demo-telemetry-stream.mp4
MCP-Connected Tools
Aura speaks Model Context Protocol natively. Any MCP server you connect — Mail, Calendar, Browser, Files, Contacts, Slack, Linear, GitHub — becomes a tool every sub-agent can call. No bespoke integrations to maintain.
Apple Mail + Gmail. Sends always behind explicit approval.
Google + iCloud. Find slots, schedule, decline.
Chrome MCP. Forms, scrapes, multi-step flows.
Finder + Spotlight. Open, move, rename, search.
Look up people, draft outreach, cross-reference.
Slack, Linear, GitHub, Notion, Stripe — drop in.
"Hey Aura, draft a reply to my last email from Sarah, and find a 30-min slot tomorrow." Watch the Mail and Calendar cursors split the work in real time.
demo-mail-calendar-mcp.mp4
Product Surfaces
Aura's notes & memory surface — captured snippets, retrievable by voice, filed by tag.
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Aura performing native macOS actions — clicking, typing, scrolling — driven by voice intent.
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Browser cursor scraping product specs across multiple tabs, condensing into a doc.
demo-browser-research.mp4
License + Pricing
Aura is sold as a desktop license. You pay a flat monthly rate for the app + sub-agent runtime; you bring your own Anthropic / OpenAI / ElevenLabs keys for model calls.
For one operator on one Mac.
Workspaces, approval policy, audit trail.
Pricing is a placeholder; subject to change before public launch. Contact for enterprise.
FAQ
Yes. Aura is bring-your-own-keys for model calls (Anthropic Claude, optionally OpenAI, ElevenLabs). Paste them in Settings on first run; they're stored in macOS Keychain and never leave your device except as the request body to those providers.
macOS Accessibility (so shadow cursors can move + click), Microphone (wake word + push-to-talk), Screen Recording (live screen context), Speech Recognition (on-device wake word), Apple Events (open Settings deep-links during onboarding). All standard TCC prompts; revocable any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Aura detects the revocation and immediately suspends wake-word + push-to-talk capture. The menu-bar status switches to "Mic disabled" and a banner tells you how to re-grant. Sub-agents already in flight finish; no new voice input is captured.
Today: Anthropic Claude (default), OpenAI GPT-4o (optional), with Ollama local-LLM as a future fallback for the orchestrator path. The Aura voice loop is currently Claude-only because of vision + tool-use stability. Local-LLM voice path is on the v2 roadmap.
For now, yes — macOS 14.2+. Aura is a native Swift app (~17K LOC) and uses ScreenCaptureKit, AVAudioEngine, on-device Speech, and the macOS Accessibility APIs that aren't portable to other OSes. Windows / Linux versions aren't planned.
No raw audio. Wake-word detection runs on-device. Once the wake word fires, your post-wake-word transcript text (not audio) goes to Claude's API along with a redacted screen snapshot. ElevenLabs receives only the response text Aura speaks back. Set TTS to system-voice in Settings if you'd rather keep voice synthesis local too.