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, live meetings transcript, autonomous agents, a workflow engine, MCP integration 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

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

About chats

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Live meeting assistant

Transcribe a meeting with speaker labels via Azure Speech, and get live insights, Q&A, notes and an editable summary you can post to a topic.

About live sessions

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Autonomous agents

Hand complex, long-running tasks to Copilot SDK agents that run in the background, and monitor the whole fleet from a control-tower dashboard that surfaces the ones that need you.

About agents

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Workflows

Chain independent agents into a reusable pipeline — research → draft → review — that the workflow coordinates in the background, with schedule and webhook triggers.

About workflows

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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. Ships as a plugin, so you can install it or leave it out.

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 conversation.

About skills & memory

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Scheduler & reminders

Put any topic, agent or workflow on a cadence or set one-shot reminders that resurface the thread on a specified date/time.

About the scheduler

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Bring your own model

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

Configure a provider

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Works on your phone

Below 768px the sidebar becomes a drawer and the content takes the whole screen, with touch-friendly actions, real viewport height and safe-area padding. Add it to your home screen and it behaves.

About the mobile layout

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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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Runs in the background

Install with one command, start at login, and drive it from a menu-bar icon that shows whether it's up — including a one-click update to the newest build.

About the background app

Let's go!

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

Installing it is one command — it sets Precursor up, starts it, and brings it back after every reboot:

bash

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lrivallain/precursor/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Then open the URL it prints. That's the whole setup: no clone, no build step, no database to create.

Head to the installation guide for the details, or browse the feature guides to see everything Precursor can do.