Machina

Hey IH 👋

I'm a developer who uses AI agents (Claude, Copilot) every day for debugging. Over time I kept running into the same three pain points:

1. The AI forgets what it learned last session — I had to re-explain context every single time

2. Describing a bug in a text box loses all visual context — the AI can't see what I'm seeing

3. Assembling a good prompt is manual and repetitive — copy-paste from docs, stack traces, notes

So I built Machina: a suite of open-source local tools designed to fix exactly these problems.

**What's in Machina right now:**

- **BugCapture** — records your screen + audio and exports a `.md` file with a screenshot and Whisper transcript, ready to paste into any AI chat

- **ContextForge** — generates a full pre-session briefing from your git diff, SSH log, and BugCapture output

- **LearnBoard** — a UI for `LEARNING.md`, a persistent file your AI agent reads at session start so it never forgets your project conventions

- **PromptBoard** — a drag-and-drop canvas for building structured AI prompts from reusable blocks

- **Transcriber** — local Whisper service for voice input in Firefox/Brave where Web Speech API is blocked

Everything runs locally, no cloud, no subscriptions. The web versions (BugCapture and LearnBoard) work directly from machina.chat without installing anything.

**Current traction:**

- Just launched a few weeks ago

- ~5 upvotes on Product Hunt

- First blog posts getting some organic search traffic

- GitHub repo open at github.com/machina-tools/machina

Happy to answer any questions or hear feedback from builders who use AI for development. What's your biggest friction point when working with AI coding assistants?