Ambient Context is a macOS menu bar app that writes down what you worked on during the day, in plain markdown, in a folder you own, so your AI assistant gets the context you actually saw. While it is open it reads the text of the focused window through the macOS accessibility tree and keeps a running record you can point Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client at.
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Hand your assistant the reading, writing and decisions it would otherwise never see.
Keep the record as plain markdown files in a folder on your own disk.
Give Claude Code, Cursor or Codex access to the context folder directly.
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