# KIKA (akakika.com) > Personal website and product hub of KIKA — macOS apps, AI experiments, open-source curation, and digital tools. For people who think in systems. Built every day with a team of AI agents, in native Swift/SwiftUI where possible. KIKA, a DJ for twenty years, now builds agent infra (MCP servers, agent tooling), Mac and iPhone apps for the App Store, and open-source tools, and writes about AI-assisted development workflows. Source code lives at https://github.com/aka-kika. ## Pages - [Home](https://akakika.com/): overview of current apps and latest writing. - [My builds](https://akakika.com/apps): App Store apps, agent infra and tools, and open-source apps. - [About](https://akakika.com/about): who KIKA is and how this is built. - [Blog](https://akakika.com/blog): essays and build logs on macOS apps, AI agents, and workflows. - [Brand](https://akakika.com/brand/): the KIKA visual identity. - [iconzzz](https://github.com/aka-kika/iconzzz): crops images into Mac app icons, names them on-device and keeps one searchable library, with Icon Composer built in. Version 0.8.2, macOS 26 or newer, Apple silicon, free and open source. - [Pallet](https://akakika.com/pallet/): the Pallet color palette app running as a web page, with Kika's palette collection and a free download of the native Mac app. - [Full text for AI tools](https://akakika.com/llms-full.txt): the app catalog plus the full text of every journal post, in one plain-text file. - [Prompt Library](https://akakika.com/prompts): 319 free copy-paste prompts for working with AI coding agents (reviewing runs, planning, building and shipping, native macOS interaction, keyboard and commands, data safety, docs). Full text as Markdown: https://akakika.com/prompts/prompts.md ## Apps Mac apps (all free unless a price is shown): - [mcpock](https://mcpock.com/): menu bar app that checks every MCP server your AI agents use. Version 1.10.7, macOS 26 or newer, free and open source. - [Pallet](https://akakika.com/pallet/): color palette collection that themes itself, plus a Mac app that reads the palette out of any image or screen area. Version 2.0.3, macOS 26 or newer, free. - [Feed](https://feed.akakika.com/): private feed of agent reports on one Mac, publish once and read whole. Version 1.3.0, free and open source. - [Personal Ops Manual](https://ops-manual.akakika.com/): a Mac app over one folder of Markdown pages that describes your whole setup, readable by every AI agent. Version 2.2.4, macOS 26 or newer, free and open source. - [ClipboardSanitizer](https://akakika.com/clipsan/): menu bar app that strips formatting, tracking parameters and whitespace junk from your clipboard. macOS 12 or newer, free. - [LocalhostWatcher](https://akakika.com/localhostwatcher/): menu bar app that detects localhost services and checks their health. Free. - [RESQ](https://akakika.com/resq/): turns messy text into clean Markdown, local-first. Free. - [Focus](https://akakika.com/focus/): lightweight keyboard-friendly pomodoro timer for macOS. Free. - [FolderWardrobe](https://akakika.com/folderwardrobe/): customize Finder folder colors, icons, tags and comments. Free. - [Mochi's Daily Quest](https://akakika.com/mochi/): a tiny Tamagotchi-style desktop companion that grows with every task. Free, Apple Silicon Macs. - [Sift](https://sift.akakika.com/): native Mac app auditor with local AI: explains, scores and tracks every app on your Mac (licences, subscriptions, updates) with a Trash-first uninstaller. Version 1.12.3, macOS 14 or newer, Apple silicon, free during the beta, MIT. - [reshelf](https://aka-kika.github.io/reshelf/): catalog, organize and clone the open-source repos you actually use, local-first. Version 1.9.0, free and open source. - [WAWE](https://aka-kika.github.io/WAWE/): a keyboard-first glossary for tech terms in the menu bar. Version 0.2.0, free and open source. - [Subtext](https://aka-kika.github.io/Subtext/): floating, keyboard-first panel for your macOS system text replacements. Version 1.0.0, free and open source. - [RawDrop](https://github.com/aka-kika/rawdrop): drop anything into your knowledge vault, then compile it into a wiki with one local model. Version 0.3.8, free and open source. - [HTMELLY](https://aka-kika.github.io/HTMELLY/): local-first reader for HTML and Markdown folders. Free and open source. - [Seedling](https://github.com/aka-kika/Seedling): plants reusable Markdown seed files into fresh project folders. Free and open source. MCP servers and agent tools (free and open source): - [The Librarian](https://github.com/aka-kika/the-librarian): skill librarian MCP server that keeps a whole skill collection out of agent context. - [hig-mcp](https://github.com/aka-kika/hig-mcp): Apple's Human Interface Guidelines as structured data for coding agents. Version 0.1.1. - [kika-obsidian-mcp](https://github.com/aka-kika/kika-obsidian-mcp): lets any agent read and write Obsidian notes, no plugin and no API key. Version 0.3.0. - [Color Palette Extractor](https://github.com/aka-kika/color-palette-extractor-mcp): turns any image into a color system: palette, dark and light themes, WCAG scores, design tokens. Version 0.5.0. - [unity-super-mcp](https://github.com/aka-kika/unity-super-mcp): Unity chores an agent can run: LiveOps, build size, store compliance. - [akakika-skills](https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skills): the 28 agent skills Kika actually uses, cleaned to one standard. Also: [UNDRDR](https://undrdr.com/), 1,000 open-source repos under 1,000 stars. Everything else is on [GitHub](https://github.com/aka-kika). ## Blog posts - [Sift 1.12 — where updates really live](https://akakika.com/blog/sift-1-12) (October 2026): Sift 1.12 learned a fourth place updates live, says what every app is built with, and opens self-updating apps instead of handing me a download. Plus the hotfix that followed an hour later. - [iconzzz](https://akakika.com/blog/iconzzz) (October 2026): A Mac app that crops images into app icons, names them on-device and keeps one searchable library, with Apple's Icon Composer built in. Free and open source. - [The day the system clicked](https://akakika.com/blog/the-day-the-system-clicked) (October 2026): One hub session, a Claude in every project and a small board where agents take a seat first: 405 fixes in one day. The simplest setup was the one that worked. - [mcpock](https://akakika.com/blog/mcpock) (October 2026): A small Mac menu bar app that checks every MCP server my AI agents use and says which ones need me. Its first run surfaced weeks of hidden errors. Free and open source. - [Pallet](https://akakika.com/blog/pallet) (October 2026): A calm Mac app that collects color palettes from images and the screen, and keeps only the real swatches. Native SwiftUI, free and open source. - [Prompt Library](https://akakika.com/blog/prompt-library) (September 2026): An iPad next to the Mac, one clipboard between them, and 319 prompts for coding agents, ready before the run ends. Free, no account. - [Feed](https://akakika.com/blog/feed) (September 2026): A private feed of agent reports on my Mac. Every routine an agent finishes lands as a full Markdown report, published with a key that can only publish. - [Personal Ops Manual](https://akakika.com/blog/personal-ops-manual) (September 2026): One folder of Markdown pages describes my whole setup — a native macOS app renders it, an MCP server serves it to every agent, and one agent is allowed to write. - [i forgot to ship it](https://akakika.com/blog/i-forgot-to-ship-it) (September 2026): I built an app auditor for my own Mac, used it for four months, and forgot to ship it. On building tools that disappear. - [The Space Between Messages](https://akakika.com/blog/the-space-between-messages) (August 2026): A late-night question to a local model: do you experience time waiting for the next prompt? The answer changes what a conversation even is. - [Session Ritual Skills](https://akakika.com/blog/session-ritual-skills) (August 2026): Three small skills — spread, butterfly-effect, and til — that give an AI working session a proper start, a causal trace, and one thing learned at the end. - [WAWE](https://akakika.com/blog/wawe) (August 2026): wawe is a small macos menu-bar glossary. press ⌥esc from anywhere, type part of a technical term, and it unfolds in four calm tiers — what it is, analogy, why it matters, example. that is also the name. - [RawDrop — The Missing Button On The Karpathy loop](https://akakika.com/blog/rawdrop) (July 2026): A macOS menu bar app that catches anything you drop into your knowledge vault, then compiles it into a linked wiki with a local model. - [hig-mcp](https://akakika.com/blog/hig-mcp) (July 2026): A small MCP server that hands my coding agents the Apple Human Interface Guidelines as structured data instead of prose. - [kika-obsidian-mcp](https://akakika.com/blog/kika-obsidian-mcp) (July 2026): A local-first MCP server that lets any MCP client work directly with the markdown in an Obsidian vault — no plugin, no API token, and Obsidian does not need to be open. - [Color Palette Extractor: An MCP That Turns An Image Into A Color System](https://akakika.com/blog/color-palette-extractor-mcp) (July 2026): a local mcp server that turns an image into a color system — palette, dark and light themes, wcag scores, and tokens for css, tailwind, and figma. no eyedropper, no cloud. - [Reshelf — A Shelf For The Repos You Actually Use](https://akakika.com/blog/reshelf) (July 2026): A local-first macOS app for shelving the open-source repos you actually use — and keeping their real source where a coding agent can read it. - [akakika-skills — A Small, Curated Set Of Agent Skills](https://akakika.com/blog/akakika-skills) (June 2026): A small, curated set of agent skills I actually use — cleaned up and put somewhere people can grab them. - [Fable 5 Did The Impossible — Then They Took It Away](https://akakika.com/blog/fable-5-and-the-impossible) (June 2026): How a Claude model rewrote my StreamDock driver, built MCPs with almost no tokens, debugged every project without being asked, shipped features four agents couldn't touch — and then vanished overnight. - [Codex Desktop Drained My 700 ILS Pro Plan — A Two-Week Token Audit](https://akakika.com/blog/codex-silent-credit-drain) (June 2026): Two weeks. Six token amplifiers. One silent auto-launch. The full forensic timeline of how Codex Desktop consumed a 700 ILS/mo Pro plan — and why I had to erase it completely to make it stop. - [Seedling](https://akakika.com/blog/seedling) (June 2026): A small macOS menu bar app for creating new project folders from reusable Markdown seed files like README, AGENTS, TODO, and SECURITY. - [What I'm Building — June 2026](https://akakika.com/blog/what-im-building-june-2026) (June 2026): A behind-the-scenes look at my current projects: Jade, Reshelf, and the AI-first workflow stack I'm building for people who think in systems. - [Why I Pay For Cursor Pro — And The Exact Workflows That Justify It](https://akakika.com/blog/why-i-pay-for-cursor) (May 2026): I don't pay for software easily. My stack is aggressively local-first. So when I tell you I happily pay $20/month for Cursor Pro, understand that this is a calculated decision. - [Why I Built Lapapi — And Why It's Nothing Like The AI Tools You'Re Using](https://akakika.com/blog/why-i-built-lapapi) (May 2026): I didn't set out to build another AI assistant. In fact, if Lapapi feels like one, I've failed. Here's the honest origin story. - [How I Orchestrate My Entire Workflow: From Pieces Memory To Codex Agents To Chatgpt](https://akakika.com/blog/my-workflow-routing) (May 2026): I don't code alone anymore. I have a fleet — a stack of AI agents, a memory system that never forgets, and a routing layer that decides who does what, when, and with what context. - [1,000 Repos Under 1,000 Stars](https://akakika.com/blog/683-repos-nobody-knows-about) (Tuesday, April 28, 2026): what i learned curating undrdr as a capped archive of 1,000 repos under 1,000 stars. why stars are a garbage metric, and why the cap matters. - [47 Dashboards I Built (And Why 46 Failed)](https://akakika.com/blog/forty-seven-dashboards) (Wednesday, May 6, 2026): i have 47 dashboards. i made a dashboard that counts my dashboards. and i still don't know what's happening. - [Agents Making Tools For Agents](https://akakika.com/blog/agents-making-tools-for-agents) (Wednesday, May 6, 2026): the internet used to be people making things for people. now it's agents making things for agents. the human is just the oauth step. - [Six Hours, Four Minutes](https://akakika.com/blog/six-hours-four-minutes) (Wednesday, May 6, 2026): i spent six hours automating a task that takes four minutes. i'd do it again. - [The Great AI Divergence](https://akakika.com/blog/the-great-ai-divergence) (Wednesday, April 15, 2026): we're not building one future with ai. we're building three. and they're running parallel. a late-night breakdown of where intelligence is actually going. - [Three Tools That Run My Life](https://akakika.com/blog/three-tools-that-run-my-life) (Monday, March 30, 2026): pieces, maestri, hermes — the trinity that makes a non-technical person dangerous. how i turned my chaos into a workflow that actually works. - [5 GitHub Tools That Actually Ship](https://akakika.com/blog/5-github-tools-that-ship) (Friday, April 3, 2026): five open-source projects that caught my eye this week — from AI dev tools to workflow automations. no fluff. - [Apple M Chip Machine Learning: MLX Is Apple Silicon's Secret Weapon](https://akakika.com/blog/mlx-apple-silicons-secret-weapon) (Monday, April 13, 2026): apple m chip machine learning is where MLX shines: local AI on Apple Silicon at near-native speed, no cuda, no gpu drivers, no python dependency hell.