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Frigade released Hob, a free, MIT-licensed desktop app that runs AI models locally on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines with at least 8GB of memory. The app automatically selects and configures an open-weight AI model suited to the user's hardware, enabling tasks like filling PDFs and working through documents offline without sending data to external servers.
A Show HN submission titled 'Jev Plays Pokémon Red' presents a fictional in-game dialogue from Pokémon Red as a vehicle to promote Frigade, an AI assistant that learns a product and guides users step-by-step inside an app. The post frames Professor Oak's guidance to the player as a metaphor for what Frigade offers to software users.
Frigade, a YC W23 startup, has released an Assist API that gives in-app AI agents a single tool call to generate on-screen visual guides instead of relying on outdated help-center text or web searches. The tool uses a browser-based agent trained on a test account to understand a product's UI, then either produces a step-by-step visual walkthrough, returns a conceptual explanation, or declines if it can't help. A demo shows integration with the Vercel AI SDK.