stormydayy/halo-overlay
Lightweight opensource AI overlay for live conversations. Hears, sees, suggests.
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A minimal AI assistant that floats over your screen. It listens to the conversation, sees what's on your screen, and gives you a short suggestion in the moment: what to say or do. Halo is a from-scratch rewrite of the idea behind sohzm/cheating-daddy, with no bundler, no vendored libraries, and support for any OpenAI-compatible model. Zoned out and lost the thread? Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter (or the button in the panel). Halo takes the transcript from the last 30 seconds to 5 minutes, plus a few screen keyframes, and answers in three lines: Here's how it works: Only meaningful frames make it into the buffer: no duplicates, and nothing from the middle of an animation. The model gets a clean storyboard instead of a hundred identical screenshots. You can also pin frames in the Rewind panel, and they'll be sent along with your next question. You'll need Node.js 20 or newer and…
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- Halo
- What's new
- New: Rewind ⏪(v 2.1)
- Everything else
- Quick start
- Fully local
- Shortcuts
- Audio capture by platform
- Privacy
- Disclaimer
- Project structure
- Development
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What this repository does
Lightweight opensource AI overlay for live conversations. Hears, sees, suggests.
Repository facts
- Owner
- stormydayy
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 516
- Forks
- 36
- Open issues + pull requests
- 0
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-25T17:33:04.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-25T19:19:08.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-overlay, cheating-daddy, interview-cheating-tool, interview-helper, interview-overlay, live-conversation, meetings-cheating, meetings-overlay, zoom-meetings
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