He’s a duck. He’s frank.
A local, voice-first rubber duck for the moment your coding agent hands you a plan and your brain quietly leaves the building.
Early. Open source. Unsigned. Frank has opinions about two of those.
Illustrative plan / rate limiting
Are you running more than one instance?
I looked. There is no Redis in this repo or its docker-compose.
One instance? Use memory. The plan invented an operations problem.
Approve is not a review.
It’s a reflex with a keyboard.
Step 31 adds Redis. You don’t have Redis. You’re going to find that out around 6pm on a Friday.
Frank ignores the routine bits and pulls forward the expensive, awkward, hard-to-undo calls your plan made while you were skimming.
Not a second agent reviewing the first agent. A duck helping the human make the calls.
FIND
Summon Frank from the menu bar. He finds the latest plan for your project and asks before reading the repository context it mentions. No paste ceremony.
⌥⇧Space
CHECK
Frank checks the real code. Missing infrastructure, broad route changes, and new dependencies get called out in plain language.
repo ≠ plan
DECIDE
Talk it through. Ask what Frank would do. Get a straight answer, then hand your agent a short note: keep this, change that, drop this.
3 calls → 1 note
Short. Specific. Slightly annoyed.
YOU
“No, just one instance.”
FRANK
“Then in memory. The plan is solving a scaling problem you don’t have. Next:
it wants to rate-limit /health, which means your load balancer
gets throttled and declares you dead.”
NOTE FOR YOUR AGENT / COPIED
Use in-memory counters; limit only/api/public, not/health; keep express-rate-limit.
Frank lives in the menu bar. You always know where you stand.
Available for judgment.
Audio stays on your Mac.
Checking the receipts.
Not a bug. The product.
Go ship. Quack.
Claude Code • GitHub Copilot • Cursor • Anthropic • OpenAI-compatible • Ollama
Frank reads. Your agent writes. Nobody gets another subscription.
Plans and code are read only when you call Frank. There’s no Frank account, server, telemetry, or cloud sync. Voice capture, transcription, code-aware pronunciation, and speech all run on your Mac. Audio is never saved or sent.
Pick Ollama and nothing leaves your machine at all. Pick another brain and only the words go to the model you chose—the same as typing them yourself.
Frank would still like a word.