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How I built deferred tool discovery for my desktop AI assistant (no embeddings needed)

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I'm building Ankita , an open-source desktop AI assistant (Electron + terminal CLI) that can run shell commands, edit files with approval diffs, search the live web, manage scheduled routines, and talk hands-free. It's powered by GitHub Copilot models, and one design constraint has shaped almost ev…

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  1. 2026-09-26 10:26 · DEV Community — AI
    How I built deferred tool discovery for my desktop AI assistant (no embeddings needed)

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