Pico

A desktop coding agent for macOS.

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This repository contains Pico's agent runtime and website. The terminal client lives in packages/pico.

Terminal client installation

npm install --global picocode

The terminal client's local dictation requires macOS 14 or newer on Apple Silicon. macOS asks for microphone access on first use, and FluidAudio downloads the Parakeet speech models to the user's cache on first use.

In the composer, Ctrl+G starts recording, Enter stops and inserts the transcript at the cursor, and Escape cancels. Dictation never sends a message automatically. The helper stays loaded between recordings and does not require the desktop app.

For a source checkout on macOS, run make helper and make build before starting the terminal client.