MINEA — the Mac secretary that acts before you ask

It doesn't only help while you're at the desk

A secretary that lives inside a window stops existing the moment you walk away.

These four need the iPhone app. It isn't on the App Store yet, so it's open through TestFlight first — Get the iPhone app → (iOS 16+) Everything that runs on the Mac works without it.

It calls you

When an appointment is coming up, it calls first. If you went to bed late, it pushes the wake-up call back 30 minutes — unless something is scheduled after it, in which case it wakes you anyway. Pick up and you can talk: ask "what time was that meeting again?" and it answers; say "okay, got it" and it hangs up.

Hand work off from the lock screen

Say "Hey Siri, MINEA" or type it into the app, and your Mac does the work. The screen goes dark while it runs, and a notification wakes you when it's done.

It reads your Apple Watch as a trend, not a day

It isn't looking for a day that spikes — it's looking for the slow slide. When your health declines, no single day crosses a threshold, so a day-by-day check never catches it. It does not diagnose — it only says "this is different from your usual," and writes it down so you have an answer when a doctor asks "since when?"

It puts text on Meta Ray-Ban Display lenses

Silent, so you can use it around other people. Ask "what does this say?" and it reads back what you're looking at.

It teaches what you wondered about

An answer only lasts for the moment. To make it stick, it has to be taught.

"Isn't adding English support just a setting you flip?"

↓ it doesn't let a passing question pass

It builds a curriculum. The subject decides how many sessions and how long — one English expression gets 15 minutes, data modelling gets 50. It finds the empty slots, puts them in your calendar, and the window opens on the hour.

It tests you first

Before session one there's a 20-minute diagnostic. Not just what you know — it reports on how you isolate a problem, how you transfer it, and your instincts. Every score comes with a reason, and if it can't give one it leaves the score blank. The reasoning questions are written so that you can solve them knowing nothing about the subject — if a beginner gets everything wrong and lands a "logic: 1," that's not a diagnosis, it's a label.

Seven minutes of feedback at the end

It tells you honestly how the session went. To keep it from inventing praise, it cites only what was actually said that day — "you asked twice whether the rest keeps running when one fails." If you barely spoke, it says that instead.

Then an exam, and one retry if you fail

Pass and your level in that field goes up a notch, and the next subject starts from there. Fail and you get one make-up session. There is no third — chasing you past that isn't help, it's collections.

It moves even when nothing comes in

Most assistants need an input to react to. So on a quiet day they do nothing at all.

It asks "what's missing?" as a separate question

If it sees you've been lying down for two hours, it puts 30 minutes of yoga in an empty slot two hours out. If lunchtime has passed and it hasn't seen you eat, it places a meal slot. It doesn't speak — it just places the slot, which you're free to ignore or delete.

It clears away what it placed once the time passes

Seeing the workout you skipped again tomorrow morning is a debt notice. It reschedules once within the same day, and if there's nowhere to put it, it deletes it. Appointments you made yourself are never touched, even after they pass.

It leaves each day as a single page

Raw logs are heavy, so you end up never reading them. It writes an A5 page of a diary instead, and pulls the patterns out of what accumulates to justify what it does next.

It trusts what it observes over what you wrote down

If your Apple Watch says "bedtime 10pm" but you actually sleep at 3am, it moves the baseline. But only one step per day (45 minutes for bedtime), it records why it moved, and it tells you once that it moved.

And on the Mac, this is what runs

Leave it on and it works without being told.

It keeps reading your mail and messages

New ones get read immediately, and appointments, deadlines and things needing a reply get pulled out. "I'll look at it later" stops happening.

It watches your screen and speaks first

If there's something to do on the screen you're looking at, a small bubble appears. Click it and it's done; ignore it and it disappears.

It creates, moves and deletes events and reminders directly

Connected to Calendar, Reminders and Google Calendar both ways. "Push that appointment back" is enough.

You can hand it work while you're out

From your iPhone, or through Telegram — the Mac does it for you.

It picks up where your old AI left off

Export your conversations from ChatGPT or Claude and drop them in — it reads them and starts already knowing what you're working on. (once is enough)

You decide how far it goes

The more a thing acts on its own, the clearer its stopping points have to be.

Calendar, notes, tidying	Done without asking. These are reversible.
Replies and sending mail	Drafted only. You read it and press send yourself.
Payments and bookings	It stops right before. A person always presses the last button.
Someone it hasn't dealt with	It asks you first.

You can widen or narrow this in settings. The default is the cautious side.

When it speaks first

It doesn't ask you things. It only surfaces quietly when the work is already visible.

A mail says "next Tuesday at 3"

Tuesday 3pm meeting — want it in the calendar?

A message from three days ago still has no reply

I've drafted a reply. Want to see it?

20 minutes before an appointment, time to leave

You need to leave by two. It's a 35-minute trip.

While you're reading news, watching a video or writing code, it doesn't speak. It also skips ad deadlines, things already finished, and things it already handled.

The biggest thing I learned building it: if interrupting is the only channel you have, you end up passive. When ringing is the only option, you weigh "is this worth a ring?" every single time — and eventually you say nothing at all. Only after adding a layer that doesn't ring (quietly placing things in the calendar) could it look after things often.

When you want to ask it directly

Type @미네아 anywhere

Notes, a mail compose field, a messenger — anywhere you can type.

@minea write an autumn greeting message to my client

↓ a bubble appears a moment later

Autumn greeting ✓

Click the bubble and the result is copied. Paste it right where you were typing.

Type @minea — case doesn't matter. @MINEA and the Korean @미네아 work too. Everything else — the app window, the iPhone app, Telegram and phone calls — takes plain English.

The same words work on the phone and over a call.

call me in 30 minutes push tomorrow's 2pm back what's on today? draft a polite reply to this mail

What it sees is filtered inside this computer

It's an app that watches your screen, your messages and your body, so here is exactly what goes where.

Deciding whether to speak	A small model inside this Mac does it. Screen contents never leave the machine.
Messages and mail	A model on this computer reads all of it and only a few filtered lines leave. Anything from a bank, brokerage or card company isn't looked at at all, and account, card and ID numbers are masked before anything is passed on.
When it actually works	Only at that moment, and only the text that job needs, passes through a server.
Storage	Screenshots are not stored. Only what you asked for stays on this Mac.
Accounts	There is no sign-up. It doesn't take your name or your email address.

Setup

Two permissions have to be turned on — it has to see the screen and click on your behalf.

Open the downloaded file and drag it to Applications Drag the MINEA icon onto the folder.
If nothing happens when you click Download — Safari is asking “Do you want to allow downloads?” Click Allow. The file is hosted on GitHub, so Safari asks once

If macOS says the app “is damaged and can’t be opened,” you have a build older than 1.1.0 — that was our bug and it is fixed. Download again
Turn on Screen Recording A dialog appears the first time you open it. If it doesn't, enable MINEA here.
System Settings › Privacy & Security › Screen Recording
Turn on Accessibility Needed so it can click for you.
System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility
Restart the app Permissions only take effect after a restart. After that it stays up on its own.
To let it watch on its own — press setup once The setup button downloads the 5.2GB judgement model — it starts working once that is down, and the better model keeps coming in the background. Ten minutes to an hour depending on your connection, and you only download it once. You see a progress bar. No Homebrew, no password.
Skip it and @minea still works — only the watching-on-its-own part stays off
If you also want the iPhone and Apple Watch Turn on "Phone connection" in settings and a six-digit number appears. Enter it in the iPhone app and you're done, once and for all. Calls, health and lock-screen hand-off start working from then on.
If you want it to handle the web too — the Chrome extension Sign in to claude.ai in Chrome and install the extension, and it will click through websites for you. If you choose "Hide My Email" during Apple sign-in it becomes a different account and won't connect.
claude.ai/chrome · quit and reopen Chrome after installing

If you use the Claude desktop app — while it's running it takes over the Chrome extension connection. Quit the Claude app when you want MINEA to do web work. (If you don't use web work, it doesn't matter.)

Even with the permissions on, screen contents never leave this Mac. Whether to speak up is decided inside this computer.

Once it's running, this is the speed

Deciding whether to speak up happens inside this Mac. That's why it's fast, and why it costs nothing.

When you ask	Ask it something on a call and it answers in 2–4 seconds. Measured, not estimated — "what time is it?" 3.8s · "what's on today?" 1.8s.
Looking at your screen	Say "what's this?" and it reads what you're looking at and answers in 2 seconds. The image is never stored. Only what you asked for is kept.
Whether to speak up	It reads your mail, messages and screen and decides inside this Mac. Nothing leaves, and it costs nothing.
When something does leave	Only when you actually hand it work. Judgement, screen reading and call answers all stay on this Mac.
Space	App 192–364MB + judgement model 5.2GB (growing to a better 15GB as you use it). The model downloads once. Skip the model and handing it work with @minea still works.
When the Mac sleeps	It stops. Close the lid and nothing happens until you open it — saying it plainly rather than hiding it. This is the biggest limitation right now.

It's a trial for now

Free	If you have a Claude account you can use it without a limit through that. If you don't, you get 30 runs to try it. No card needed. Signing in also runs it on a stronger model — the same setup the author uses. The free runs are a taste, one tier below (they still get dates right).
One thing to say up front	The 30 free runs come out of an allowance I've paid for in advance. I build and pay for this alone, so if a lot of people arrive at once that allowance can run out and the trial may pause or stop. If that happens I'll write it here and reopen it as I refill. Using your own Claude account isn't affected — that path doesn't touch my allowance.
After that	Pricing isn't decided yet. I'd rather hear from people who've used it first.
What you need	A Mac — Apple Silicon (M1 and later) and Intel both. macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later. Calls, Apple Watch and the glasses need the iPhone app, which is open on TestFlight — iOS 16 or later.
The first time	Once installed you can start asking right away — type @minea … in any text field. To let it watch your mail and screen on its own, press the setup button in the app once. That downloads the model (5.2GB) that decides, inside this Mac, whether to speak up. It works as soon as that is down — the better model follows in the background, and the app moves up to it on its own. No Homebrew, no password. Once is enough, and you see a progress bar while it downloads.
Language	The whole interface is in English — and so is everything it says to you: calls, tutoring, the daily page, the nudges. If your Mac is set to English it comes up in English on its own; switch it at the top of settings and it changes immediately, no restart. Being straight with you: the voice it calls you in is still Korean. That part I’m still working through — if it gets in your way, tell me and it moves up the list.

This is a work in progress. If something is awkward or broken, that's exactly what I want to hear.