Code review comments at 11pm. Commit messages on a walk. Long prompts into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex without leaving the editor. Dettivo gives developers fast Mac-native dictation plus CLI, REST, and MCP access to every transcript it has captured.
§ The current circuit
You start with macOS dictation, then hand-edit every PR comment, commit message, and agent prompt. You paste into ChatGPT for cleanup. You context-switch from editor to browser to terminal and back again. None of the speech history is exposed anywhere your local agent can use.
I
Enhanced dictation knows when the focused app is VS Code, Cursor, Zed, JetBrains, a terminal, or an agent prompt. It applies a code-aware polish profile, more code-fenced spans, fewer overly conversational rewrites.
→ App-specific polish profiles
II
Dettivo ships a stdio MCP server. One config line drops it into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex. Your agent gets tools to search transcripts, fetch the latest, and insert one into the focused app.
→ MCP server
III
dettivo status, dictation start/stop, transcript latest --format markdown, mcp serve. Pipe transcripts into anything. Script anything. Exit codes you can branch on.
→ CLI tool
IV
One toggle in Settings starts a token-protected loopback HTTP server. Streaming import/export endpoints. Your local scripts never leave the box.
→ Local REST API
V
Dictate a quick note straight into a folder you pick, your Obsidian vault, your repo’s docs/notes/ tree, your scratch directory. No app stealing focus.
→ Quick Note
VI
Voice triggers map to shell commands behind an explicit allowlist. Run a deploy from the keyboard without touching a mouse. Every run lands in the audit log.
→ Macros
You already drive your editor from the keyboard. Now your voice and your agent can share the same local context.
