Kit

Kit is a desktop automation framework and scriptable UI toolkit designed for building personalized productivity tools. It serves as a cross-platform CLI wrapper and macOS system automator, providing an environment to execute scripts that manage operating system tasks, file management, and application workflows.

The project distinguishes itself with a dedicated LLM integration layer for structured data extraction and text generation, alongside a specialized UI framework for creating interactive input forms, HTML windows, and floating widgets. It features deep macOS integration through AppleScript execution and system menu bar customization.

The framework covers a broad range of capabilities, including system-level input device control, clipboard management, and power control. It includes automation utilities for cron-based scheduling and file watching, as well as developer tools for Git synchronization, environment variable management, and web scraping.

The system provides built-in support for executing shell commands and managing isolated script environments.

Features

macOS Automation Tools - Implements a system for automating macOS tasks through AppleScript execution, menu bar integration, and OS event triggers.
Desktop Automation - Offers a framework for creating scripts that automate repetitive tasks, window management, and power states on the desktop.
AI Conversation Managers - Provides a system for managing multi-turn AI conversation history and streaming responses to the interface.
Generative AI Provider Integrations - Integrates with various third-party AI providers to generate text completions from user prompts.
LLM Integration Layers - Provides a dedicated layer for integrating large language models into local scripts for text generation and structured data extraction.
Structured Data Extraction - Enables extracting specific information from raw text using predefined schemas for consistent output formats.
Cross-Platform CLI Builders - Acts as a cross-platform framework for building CLI tools with environment variable and shell command management.
Global Keyboard Shortcuts - Registers global keyboard shortcuts to trigger specific script actions or interrupt processes.
Keyboard Productivity Tools - Provides tools to map complex system tasks to personalized keyboard shortcuts, menus, and text expansions.
Keyboard-to-Script Mappings - Maps specific key combinations to scripts to trigger automation without using a menu or terminal.
Graphical Interfaces - Creates a graphical interface that launches scripts and allows UI elements to be driven by script logic.
Scripting Utilities - Provides a centralized environment for executing utility scripts that handle git operations and project bootstrapping.
Shell Command Execution - Supports triggering and controlling operating system shell commands in both background and interactive modes.
Scheduled Script Executions - Executes background automation scripts on a fixed timetable using cron syntax.
Event-Driven Scripting - Launches scripts automatically based on filesystem changes, system events, or cron schedules.
Custom AI Workflows - Enables the creation of custom automation sequences that connect user inputs to AI providers for text generation.
Automation Script Execution - Enables quick execution of automation scripts via a searchable prompt or global keyboard shortcuts.
AppleScript Integrations - Executes AppleScript strings to programmatically control native macOS system features and third-party applications.
OS Interaction Utilities - Provides utilities for executing system-level actions such as editing files and sending notifications.
macOS Application Administration - Uses AppleScript and shell commands to programmatically manage native macOS features and third-party applications.
Form Input Widgets - Creates rapid-entry input forms that return structured objects for use in script logic.
HTML Window Rendering - Opens new interactive windows rendered with HTML and styled using utility CSS.
Scriptable UI Toolkits - Ships a toolkit for building interactive input forms, HTML widgets, and markdown displays to drive script logic.
System Menu Bar Utilities - Allows customization of the macOS system menu bar with dynamic text, emojis, and script launchers.
User Input Capture - Implements a variety of interactive UI elements, including forms, grids, and chat interfaces, to collect user data for script logic.
Interactive Variable Editors - Provides an editor that lets users tab through and edit variables within a template to customize script inputs.
Git & GitHub - Allows performing version control operations such as cloning repositories via remote Git and GitHub services.
Keyboard and Mouse Input Simulations - Enables programmatic control of the mouse and keyboard to automate user interface interactions.
JSON Document Storage - Uses simple JSON files on the local filesystem as a lightweight document store or database.
Key-Value Persistence Stores - Provides a persistent key-value store for saving application state and simple data types across sessions.
User Script Synchronization - Synchronizes custom scripts and their configurations across multiple devices via remote repositories.
Bulk File Content Updates - Implements utilities for replacing text or regular expressions across multiple files to maintain project consistency.
Clipboard Managers - Includes utilities to read and write text to the system clipboard and maintain a history of copied items.
System Clipboard Access - Provides capabilities to read clipboard contents and update selected text within the system.
Code Snippet Execution - Runs code snippets from various programming languages by creating temporary files and executing them in a terminal.
Filesystem Manipulation Utilities - Offers functions for searching files, creating home-relative paths, and moving items to the system trash.
Git-Based Configuration Synchronization - Synchronizes script environments across workstations by cloning and pushing to remote Git repositories.
Script Debugging - Provides a debug mode with an inspector to step through code and inspect variable values.
Script Path Mapping - Connects external directories containing scripts to the system to enable execution outside primary paths.
Text Editors - Includes a built-in text editor for loading, modifying, and saving content within the current workspace.
Text Expansion Snippets - Assigns trigger text to scripts so they execute as text expansion snippets.
Source File Watching - Monitors files and directories using glob patterns to trigger automation scripts on modification.
Screen and Audio Capture - Captures screen, webcam video, and audio for documentation purposes.
Application Focus Filtering - Identifies the currently focused application to enable application-specific automation logic.
Tiling Window Managers - Provides capabilities to retrieve window boundaries and adjust the position, focus, or tiling of active windows.
Keystroke Simulation - Automates text entry by pasting plain text or templates into the currently focused application.
Environment Variable Managers - Manages environment variables through local configuration files and user prompts.
Workspace Isolation - Groups related scripts and libraries into isolated directories to manage distinct workspaces.
Application Focus Monitors - Detects the currently focused application to enable context-aware text copying and pasting.
Floating Desktop Widgets - Spawns persisting, positioned floating windows to display content independently from the main script flow.
Interactive Input Fields - Prompts users for text or selection input with support for hints, timeouts, and custom styling.
Programmatic UI Control - Programmatically opens editor windows to append text or render markdown content.
HTTP Request Clients - Ships a built-in HTTP client for retrieving data from APIs and downloading remote files.
Web Scraping and Extraction - Provides tools to parse HTML and extract attribute values or text from webpages.

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