attend

attend is all you need

Speak your thoughts while navigating code, and attend uses a local transcription model to send your words to your coding agent, interleaved with what you were manipulating on-screen as you spoke.

I've found that pair programming using attend's voice narration is a rather different experience from typing my thoughts to a coding agent. There's something very specific about saying what I mean out loud that forces me to slow down and consider more deeply.

I invite you to see if you feel the same way.

What it looks like

Press a hotkey, say out loud, "this function should take a Duration instead of a raw u64" while your cursor is on the relevant code, and press the hotkey again.

Your coding agent receives your words interleaved with edits and selections in your text editor (Zed), selections from within your browser (Firefox or Chrome), clipboard contents (text and images), and shell commands (Fish or Zsh), and even selections from arbitrary other apps (macOS only) — all in chronological order, so it can understand your words and actions in context with one another while you're narrating.

See example narration for what the agent receives.

Installation

You'll need Rust to install attend:

cargo install --locked --git https://github.com/oxidecomputer/attend attend

Claude Code plugin (recommended)

The easiest way to integrate with Claude Code is to install the attend plugin:

/plugin marketplace add oxidecomputer/attend
/plugin install attend@attend

Then write the required permissions (plugins cannot set these):

attend install --agent claude

When the plugin is detected, this writes only the permission grants that the plugin needs. Without the plugin, it performs a full manual installation of hooks and skills.

Other integrations

Install editor, browser, and shell integrations:

attend install

This detects which integrations are available on your system (editors, browsers, shells) and prompts you to confirm each one. It also provides the option of pre-downloading a local transcription model, so that it's ready on first-run (it will be downloaded anyhow when you first narrate).

Then follow your first narration session to start narrating with your coding agent.

Documentation

Start here:

• Your first narration session — a step-by-step tutorial for your first narration
• Example narration — see what the agent actually receives

How-to guides:

• Narrating effectively — get the most out of voice-driven pair programming
• Hotkeys — configure narration hotkeys in Zed, globally, and in iTerm2
• Browser integration — capture text selections from Firefox and Chrome
• Shell integration — capture shell commands from Fish and Zsh
• Troubleshooting — diagnose common problems and macOS permissions
• Uninstall — remove attend and its integrations

Reference:

• Command reference — every attend subcommand
• Configuration — config files, fields, and transcription engines
• Narration format — event types and rendering format
• Extending reference — trait APIs, hook events, and message templates

Understanding attend:

• How it works — data flow, the recording daemon, sessions, and the merge pipeline
• Architecture — design patterns, test architecture, and rationale

Extending and contributing:

• Extending attend — adding support for new editors, agents, shells, and browsers
• Development — building, testing, and dev installation