Built an agent you can chat with to control Arc — manages tabs/spaces, queries history, asks before closing anything (open source)
If you're a heavy Arc user you probably also have the "too many spaces, no idea what's still relevant, can't find anything" problem.
Spent Sunday building something for that: a local AI assistant you can just ask — "what do I have open about X?", "find that article I was reading last week", "close everything from that project". It hooks into Arc via AppleScript and runs fully local on macOS.
Added an approval step before any tab closes. Same principle for context limits — instead of silently summarizing when the window fills up, it surfaces the choice to the user: compress and continue (lossy) or start fresh (clean). The agent shouldn't make that call unilaterally.
GitHub: https://github.com/Dev-Dipesh/arc-agent
Curious what Arc workflows you'd actually want automated — I built for my own patterns so there's probably obvious stuff I haven't thought of.
Posted Mar 8, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC