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[HN] Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once

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Understudy is a new local-first desktop agent designed to automate tasks across various applications, including native GUI apps, browsers, terminals, and chat tools. Unlike many current agents confined to single surfaces, Understudy can operate cohesively across all these environments. Its core innovation is a "teach-by-demonstration" method, where users perform a task once, and the agent records it to extract the underlying intent for future automation.

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