I like Codex a lot, but this nearly made me lose my mind.

I gave a pair of agents one clear job make a button work. I came back about 12 hours later and the button still did not work. They had written tests, investigated unrelated code, and made “progress” everywhere except the thing I actually asked for.

The first thing that genuinely helped was embarrassingly simple: a live checklist that forced the agent to keep naming the exact outcome, what was still broken, and what proof would count.

So I kept expanding that idea into **ProjectStart**, an open-source Codex skill for running a project more like a small software team:

- one Project Director and one master checklist
- planning and prior-art research before implementation
- separate top-level Codex tasks for real product domains
- exact task IDs/deeplinks so agents can actually find each other
- deadlines and drift alarms
- mockup skeleton approval before features
- durable correction records so the same mistake does not return 10 hours later
- evidence rules that stop a build or unit test from being called a working product

The rule I care about most: a developer, QA lane, visual auditor, integrator, or other lasting role **must be a real top-level task created with `create_thread`**. It cannot be hidden inside `spawn_agent`. The validator deliberately fails if a subagent is given durable project ownership.

It is MIT licensed, has an install button, and includes the full Markdown control kit plus PowerShell initialization/validation scripts:

**GitHub: https://github.com/LiquidGlek/ProjectStart\*\*

This came directly out of wasting a ridiculous amount of time babysitting agents and correcting the same failures. I have tested the package, fresh initialization, strict controls, clean extraction, and the negative case where a durable lane is incorrectly assigned to a subagent.

If Codex has ever spent hours being impressively busy without finishing the one thing you asked for, this is for that problem.

I would genuinely like people to try to break the workflow and tell me which failure mode I missed.

Last month I posted about wiring the G2 into the AI coding agents already sitting on my Mac, so the glasses answer like they know what I do all day instead of like a search box. That post went way better than I expected, and honestly the DMs have been the best part of it. (Original post here if you want the architecture and the SDK gotchas.)

Three weeks later it's basically different software, and about 250 people have set it up so far. Here's where it's at. The giveaway details are near the bottom.

GotCOS has a Mac app now

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Version one was a terminal command and a lot of faith. Now there's COS Control, a menu bar app that runs the server for you, shows you what's actually running, updates without breaking itself, and can repair common install or update failures. After setup, you shouldn't need the terminal for normal use.

It opens on an Activity view, which I did not expect to use nearly as much as I do. Six windows into what your COS is already holding: Messages, Speakers, Meetings, Memories, Threads, and your agent Sessions. You stop guessing what it caught. Every meeting, every answer, every voice it's learned is sitting there in a list you can open.

It knows who talked

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This one surprised me. Meetings get transcribed locally, and now voices carry across them, so somebody you talked to three weeks ago shows up by name in today's call instead of as "Speaker 1" all over again.

It was hard, and I built the review tools before I trusted the accuracy at all. Below a confidence floor the panel just says "unidentified" rather than guessing, because a confident wrong name is worse than no name. You can play the audio back, confirm a voice, or tell it "nope, wrong person" and it'll retract whatever training that mistake created. With a microphone strapped to your face in a real room, that correction loop is doing most of the work.

Everything else that shipped

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• Meetings show up faster. A saved meeting used to wait on the full high-quality pass before it landed anywhere. Now it appears right away, then the higher-quality pass fills in the rest.
• Transcription got faster when nothing else is going on. The post-meeting polish grabs the GPU when nothing live is competing for it, and hands it back the second a meeting starts. Roughly 6x faster per word than the CPU path.
• Live text on the lens while you're still talking, swapped for the real transcript once it commits.
• Video uploads resume now instead of dying on a bad connection.
• Photos on the lens at 288x144, plus answer images you can pull up on the G2.
• Jobs still live on the Mac, so you can close Even Hub or drop off Wi-Fi and the answer is waiting when you get back.

Cursor works now, and there's no second bill

Not just Claude Code and Codex anymore. Cursor works too, so you can put Grok or Composer behind the glasses. You pick the model per question from the lens and swap mid-conversation if one isn't getting it. Three agent CLIs, whichever one you're already paying for.

Which gets to the thing people keep assuming wrong. GotCOS doesn't add a separate API bill. It signs in through the CLI you already use, so it runs on the Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor account you already have, subject to that provider's plan and limits. Nothing to paste, nothing metering you per token.

Whatever can run entirely on your machine already does. Transcription is local by default through whisper.cpp, so meeting audio never leaves the Mac, and spoken replies can be local too. Cloud transcription is there as a fallback but it's off until you turn it on, and just configuring a key won't upload anything on its own. To be precise, since this crowd will ask: the reasoning still goes to whichever provider you signed into, on your existing plan. What's local is the transcription, the speech, and the files. Meetings, memories, and transcripts sit on your disk as plain files you can open, grep, back up, or delete.

It works inside the Hub, not around it

Saying this plainly since there are a few different approaches floating around this sub. It's a marketplace app. You install it from the Even Hub like anything else. Nothing to flash, nothing to unlock, no warranty to worry about. I build inside the Even Hub SDK sandbox and code around whatever it hands me.

That's a tradeoff and I'm not claiming it's the better one. The custom firmware folks get past walls I have to engineer around, and I've picked things up from their work. But if you want your glasses doing more without modifying the glasses, this is the path.

What you end up with is a workflow that stays on hardware you already own. Ask a question, read it on the lens. Talk, and watch the transcript appear while you're still talking. Point the server at a folder and the agent works through the files in it, including whatever your Mac already syncs down from iCloud Drive. A meeting you just recorded becomes a file the agent can read a minute later, so you can ask about it without exporting anything anywhere.

Two people this owes something to

u/ICE_MF_Mike ran my server through his own Claude setup after the last post and came back with an actual security review. Shell injection in a title generator, file permissions, network defaults, a Telegram switch that should have been opt-in. He was right about all of it, and all of it is patched and shipped. Best thing that's happened to this project.

u/True-Benefit-4856 is the only reason there's a desktop app. The companion started as their idea and turned out to be the one change that made this usable for anyone who doesn't want to live in a terminal.

If you read the source and find something, I want to hear it. It's MIT, it's on npm, and it runs on your machine, so read it before you run it.

The giveaway: a pair of G2s

https://www.gotcos.com/challenge/

I've got a second pair sitting here and I'd rather they go to somebody who'll do something interesting with them than sit in a drawer.

To enter: comment with what you'd build or how you'd use it. Not a wishlist. The actual use case, the workflow, the thing you can't do today and want to. Feature ideas for COS Glasses count, and so does a completely different application of the hardware.

How I'll pick: I read all of them and pick the one I most want to see exist. Best idea wins, upvotes don't decide it, though I'll definitely read the ones you upvote.

Deadline: October 1.

Fine print: used pair, good condition, mine to give. Open worldwide, and the winner covers shipping from the US plus any customs or duties on their end. I'd rather send these to the right person in another country than limit it to one. You don't need to be running COS Glasses to enter, and running it doesn't help your odds. If your idea wins and it's something I can build, I'd rather build it with you than for you.

Setup

• Setup wizard, about five minutes: https://www.gotcos.com/wizard/
• The Mac app: https://www.gotcos.com/control/
• Full docs, every feature on one page: https://www.gotcos.com/docs/
• Source, MIT, on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gotcos/glasses-server
• Even Hub: search “COS Glasses”

You need at least one of Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Cursor installed and signed in. Whichever you already have is fine. It works standalone, and if you're already running a bigger COS setup, point the server at that folder and the glasses inherit all of it.

I keep calling this a side project and it keeps being the thing I use every single day. Recording a customer call and asking what I missed. Logging an idea halfway through a walk without pulling my phone out.

If you try it and it breaks, tell me and I'll get you running. Building against this SDK yourself? Happy to compare notes on any of the traps. And if you've got an idea for what this should do next, drop it in the comments, because there's a pair of glasses in it for one of you.

reset available, so i have a chance to try a new grok 4.6 fully until august 18 with all my actual usage, may be a couple of days, and then use reset and continue.

otherwise, with current state of things, i would have just reset 8%.

thanks grok!

I built a REST API that extracts YouTube transcripts, metadata, available languages, and supports batch processing.

It is mainly for developers building:
- AI video summarizers
- YouTube-to-blog tools
- SEO/content research tools
- EdTech products
- RAG pipelines using video content

Endpoints include:
- GET /api/transcript
- GET /api/metadata
- GET /api/languages
- POST /api/batch

It is published on RapidAPI with a free plan:
https://rapidapi.com/dtech4099/api/youtube-transcript27

Docs:
https://youtube-trascript-api.vercel.app/docs

I’m looking for feedback from builders who work with YouTube/video content.

So to explain why this is low IQ, you have to understand first what is getting reseted: the usage limits, which is pretty obvious. If you look at the plans, there is nowhere stated how much usage limit you actually get. You know that you get 5x or 20x more than on plus but more than what???

it's very intransparent and nowhere stated how much the usage limit actually is.

I have experienced or noticed this a few months ago: there was a 10x event for everyone on the 5x plan. Every time they reset the next usage limit window got heavily nerfed. This signals to me that they have to reset the limits to change the usage limits.

removing the 5-hour window made everyone extremely hype but this was just a smart way of making the users lose sense of how much usage limit they actually got. it's way harder to compare than previously before on the 5-hour limits. that should always be the same. now you always have one week so time passes. you can no longer compare the 5-hour window to the previous one multiple times a day. this is just a smart way of actually blurring out how they actually change these usage limits frequently

So don't get fooled by these companies. they don't give you anything for free. everything they give you, they want back 2x or 10x. That's just how it works in business so i can't really hate on that...

Soo pleaseeee

Don't be a fool and beg for short term pleasure while essentially celebrating that you are getting nerfed in the long run...

I created a web app calledScriptSyncthat automates the whole subtitle workflow.

Unlike basic editor tools where you have to manually tweak .vtt files, this automates the process using a multimodal AI pipeline:

• Frame-by-Frame OCR / Vision AI: Reads pre-existing rendered subtitles directly from video frames.
• Audio VAD & Waveform Sync: Automatically detects pauses and speech timing to place overlay captions at the exact right spot.
• Smart LLM Editing & Translation: Cleans up transcriptions, applies YouTube caption rules (like noun endings and screen density limits), and translates them in real time.
• Interactive Canvas Editor: Move or delete subtitles right on the preview screen with a single click.
• NLE Export: Seamlessly exports to FCPXML, PNG Zip, DOCX, and SRT for Premiere Pro and Final Cut.

Check it out here:scriptsync.co.kr

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!e