# KIKA writing (akakika.dev)

> Notes by KIKA on agent-first tools, Mac apps, MCP servers and how the work gets done. Posts are dated: a version or
> count in a post was current on its date. The apps themselves live on https://akakika.com (its own llms.txt:
> https://akakika.com/llms.txt). Every post in full: https://akakika.dev/llms-full.txt

## Posts

- [Background Off](https://akakika.dev/backgroundoff) (20 October 2026): An iPhone and iPad app that removes a photo's background on the device. I made it to win a bet with my mother, and now I use it every day.
- [Localpage](https://akakika.dev/localpage) (19 October 2026): The reader for what your agents write: a quiet app for folders of HTML and Markdown, on Mac, iPhone and iPad. It only reads, every page remembers, and it is my first app on the App Store.
- [iconzzz](https://akakika.dev/iconzzz) (17 October 2026): A calm Mac app that turns a pile of icon images into a named, searchable library, with Icon Composer built in. Free and open source, nothing leaves the Mac.
- [Sift 1.12 — where updates really live](https://akakika.dev/sift-1-12) (17 October 2026): Sift 1.12 learned a fourth place updates live, says what every app is built with, and opens self-updating apps instead of handing me a download. Plus the hotfix that followed an hour later.
- [The day the system clicked](https://akakika.dev/the-day-the-system-clicked) (17 October 2026): One hub session, a Claude in every project and a small board of seats: 405 fixes in one day, and the simplest setup was the one that worked.
- [mcpock](https://akakika.dev/mcpock) (10 October 2026): A small Mac menu bar app that checks every MCP server my AI agents use, and tells me which ones are broken, slow, waiting for a sign-in, or set up differently from one agent to the next. Free and open source.
- [Pallet](https://akakika.dev/pallet) (1 October 2026): A calm Mac app that collects color palettes from images and the screen, and keeps only the real swatches: no white page, no title, no photo behind the cards. Native SwiftUI now, free and open source.
- [Prompt Library](https://akakika.dev/prompt-library) (23 September 2026): An iPad next to the Mac, one clipboard between them, and 319 prompts for coding agents, ready before the run ends. Free, no account.
- [Feed](https://akakika.dev/feed) (16 September 2026): A private feed of agent reports on my Mac: every routine an agent finishes lands as a full Markdown report, published with a key that can do nothing else. Open source, MIT.
- [Personal Ops Manual](https://akakika.dev/personal-ops-manual) (15 September 2026): A native macOS manual for my own setup: one Markdown page per machine, service and agent, read by every agent through MCP, reported to through an inbox, written by one.
- [i forgot to ship it](https://akakika.dev/i-forgot-to-ship-it) (1 September 2026): on the audit tool i built for me, and shipped for you.
- [The Space Between Messages](https://akakika.dev/the-space-between-messages) (21 August 2026): Between the last token and the next prompt, the model does not wait. The conversation has no gaps — only we do.
- [Session ritual skills](https://akakika.dev/session-ritual-skills) (14 August 2026): Three small skills — spread, butterfly-effect, and til — that give an AI working session a proper start, a causal trace, and one thing learned at the end.
- [WAWE](https://akakika.dev/wawe) (1 August 2026): wawe is a small macos menu-bar glossary. press ⌥esc from anywhere, type part of a technical term, and it unfolds in four calm tiers — what it is, analogy, why it matters, example. that is also the name.
- [hig-mcp](https://akakika.dev/hig-mcp) (28 July 2026): A small MCP server that hands my coding agents the Apple Human Interface Guidelines as structured data instead of prose.
- [kika-obsidian-mcp](https://akakika.dev/kika-obsidian-mcp) (28 July 2026): A local-first MCP server that lets any MCP client work directly with the markdown in an Obsidian vault — no plugin, no API token, and Obsidian does not need to be open.
- [Color Palette Extractor: an MCP that turns an image into a color system](https://akakika.dev/color-palette-extractor-mcp) (1 July 2026): a local mcp server that turns an image into a color system — palette, dark and light themes, wcag scores, and tokens for css, tailwind, and figma. no eyedropper, no cloud.
- [RawDrop — The Missing Button on the Karpathy Loop](https://akakika.dev/rawdrop) (1 July 2026): A macOS menu bar app that catches anything you drop into your knowledge vault, then compiles it into a linked wiki with a local model.
- [reshelf — A Shelf for the Repos You Actually Use](https://akakika.dev/reshelf) (1 July 2026): A local-first macOS app for shelving the open-source repos you actually use — and keeping their real source where a coding agent can read it.
- [akakika-skills](https://akakika.dev/akakika-skills) (1 June 2026): A small, curated set of agent skills I actually use — cleaned up and put somewhere people can grab them.
- [Codex Desktop Drained My 700 ILS Pro Plan — A Two-Week Token Audit](https://akakika.dev/codex-silent-credit-drain) (1 June 2026): Two weeks. Six token amplifiers. One silent auto-launch. The full forensic timeline of how Codex Desktop consumed a 700 ILS/mo Pro plan — and why I had to erase it completely to make it stop.
- [Fable 5 Did the Impossible — Then They Took It Away](https://akakika.dev/fable-5-and-the-impossible) (1 June 2026): How a Claude model rewrote my StreamDock driver, built MCPs with almost no tokens, debugged every project without being asked, shipped features four agents couldn't touch — and then vanished overnight.
- [Seedling](https://akakika.dev/seedling) (1 June 2026): A small macOS menu bar app for creating new project folders from reusable Markdown seed files like README, AGENTS, TODO, and SECURITY.
- [What I'm Building — June 2026](https://akakika.dev/what-im-building-june-2026) (1 June 2026): A behind-the-scenes look at my current projects: Jade, Reshelf, and the AI-first workflow stack I'm building for people who think in systems.
- [Agents Making Tools for Agents](https://akakika.dev/agents-making-tools-for-agents) (6 May 2026): the internet used to be people making things for people. now it's agents making things for agents. the human is just the oauth step.
- [47 Dashboards I Built (and Why 46 Failed)](https://akakika.dev/forty-seven-dashboards) (6 May 2026): i have 47 dashboards. i made a dashboard that counts my dashboards. and i still don't know what's happening.
- [Six Hours, Four Minutes](https://akakika.dev/six-hours-four-minutes) (6 May 2026): i spent six hours automating a task that takes four minutes. i'd do it again.
- [How I Orchestrate My Entire Workflow: From Pieces Memory to Codex Agents to ChatGPT](https://akakika.dev/my-workflow-routing) (1 May 2026): I don't code alone anymore. I have a fleet — a stack of AI agents, a memory system that never forgets, and a routing layer that decides who does what, when, and with what context.
- [Why I Built Lapapi — and Why It's Nothing Like the AI Tools You're Using](https://akakika.dev/why-i-built-lapapi) (1 May 2026): I didn't set out to build another AI assistant. In fact, if Lapapi feels like one, I've failed. Here's the honest origin story.
- [Why I Pay for Cursor Pro — and the Exact Workflows That Justify It](https://akakika.dev/why-i-pay-for-cursor) (1 May 2026): I don't pay for software easily. My stack is aggressively local-first. So when I tell you I happily pay $20/month for Cursor Pro, understand that this is a calculated decision.
- [1,000 Repos Under 1,000 Stars](https://akakika.dev/683-repos-nobody-knows-about) (28 April 2026): what i learned curating undrdr as a capped archive of 1,000 repos under 1,000 stars. why stars are a garbage metric, and why the cap matters.
- [The Great AI Divergence](https://akakika.dev/the-great-ai-divergence) (15 April 2026): we're not building one future with ai. we're building three. and they're running parallel. a late-night breakdown of where intelligence is actually going.
- [Apple M Chip Machine Learning: MLX Is Apple Silicon's Secret Weapon](https://akakika.dev/mlx-apple-silicons-secret-weapon) (13 April 2026): apple m chip machine learning is where MLX shines: local AI on Apple Silicon at near-native speed, no cuda, no gpu drivers, no python dependency hell.
- [5 GitHub Tools That Actually Ship](https://akakika.dev/5-github-tools-that-ship) (3 April 2026): five open-source projects that caught my eye this week — from AI dev tools to workflow automations. no fluff.
- [Three Tools That Run My Life](https://akakika.dev/three-tools-that-run-my-life) (30 March 2026): pieces, maestri, hermes — the trinity that makes a non-technical person dangerous. how i turned my chaos into a workflow that actually works.