MCP tools + permission hooks: giving a desktop AI real tools without giving up control
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Cloud agents can call tools — but the keys, transcripts, and policy often live somewhere else. When the work is on your machine (CRM exports, local PDFs, SMTP), you want the opposite: tools that run locally, with a gate you can see. I have been building aiFetchly , an open-source local-first deskto…
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- 2026-09-14 23:19 · DEV Community — AI
MCP tools + permission hooks: giving a desktop AI real tools without giving up control