PrecursorOpinionated approach to work follow-up, built as an AI assistant

A single, local-first app that keeps track of your work and/or personal topics with AI conversations enhancement, links them to GitHub issues — with live meetings, autonomous agents, MCP tools, and a scheduler, and more.

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A single home for every thread of work.

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Topic-scoped conversations

Long-lived, tree-organized threads that each carry their own history and context. Optionally link a topic to a GitHub issue and its body, comments, and labels become live context — newer updates outweigh older ones.

About topics

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Quick chats

Throwaway conversations for when you just need an answer fast. Streaming replies, markdown, mermaid diagrams, and code highlighting out of the box.

About chats

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Live meeting assistant

Record a meeting, transcribe it with speaker labels via Azure Speech, and get live insights, Q&A, and an editable summary you can post to a topic. Audio is never stored.

About live sessions

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Autonomous agents

Hand complex and/or long-running tasks to a Copilot SDK agent, and follow its progress in a workflow-style timeline.

About agents

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Workspaces & files

Point the assistant at a git clone or a local directory and let it browse and edit files inside a path-traversal-proof sandbox.

About workspaces

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Kanban board

Track the GitHub issues linked to your topics on a board that spans your projects — a bird's-eye view of work in flight.

About the board

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MCP, both ways

Precursor is an MCP server (it exposes your conversations) and an MCP client (it attaches tool servers per turn) — GitHub, fetch, workspace-fs, a command runner, WorkIQ, and your own.

About MCP

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Skills & memory

Reusable /slash prompt presets stored as SKILL.md files (interoperable with the Copilot CLI) plus long-term memory injected into every conversation.

About skills & memory

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Scheduler & reminders

Put any topic or agent on a cadence or set a one-shot reminder that resurfaces the thread on a specified date/time.

About the scheduler

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Extensible by design

(WIP) A backend entry-point plugin contract plus a frontend extension registry let third parties add routers, panels, and MCP tools without forking core.

About plugins

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Bring your own model

GitHub Copilot, GitHub Models, Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, Mistral, Hugging Face, Ollama — or a deterministic mock provider for offline development.

Configure a provider

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Local-first & private

A single-user app that binds to localhost by default. Secrets live in the local DB and are never echoed back by the API.

How it works

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Precursor is a small AI assistant, built with an opinionated approach to tracking work-in-progress conversations alongside the GitHub issues they may belong to.

bash

# Run the latest published build with zero setup:
uvx precursor-ai

Prefer to hack on it? The whole dev stack — backend hot-reload plus Vite HMR — starts with one command: