# ContextDaddy

> A Mac app for reviewing coding-agent skills, project context, usage history and verified OpenTelemetry signals, with previewed local changes you explicitly apply. Signed and notarized for Apple silicon.

## Your agents' context.
*Made visible.*

Skills. Context. Usage.

ContextDaddy shows what the coding agents on your Mac can discover, invoke and consume. Review skill access, project context, local usage history and verified OpenTelemetry signals.

[Download for Mac](https://context.daddyrad.com/download)

[Release details ›](/context/release/)

Public early-access beta · free to download · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon

## Separate exposure *from use.*

Discovery is not invocation

ContextDaddy distinguishes what an agent could see from what it actually consumed. Installed cache evidence never masquerades as active runtime exposure, and context-size estimates stay visibly approximate.

### Usage

Reads local agent-log history and provider allowance through installed CLIs.

### Skills

Explains per-runtime discovery and invocation policy.

### Projects

Shows discovered context files.

### OpenTelemetry

Shows only verified signals from a compatible local collector.

## Reads metadata. *Leaves prompts alone.*

Bounded by design

ContextDaddy reads bounded local metadata and configuration structure. It does not copy prompt bodies, tool arguments or credential values into its dashboards. Supported local skill and context-file changes require a preview and your explicit apply action.

### For

people who run Codex, Claude, Cursor, Devin or Grok on a Mac and want to review skill access, context exposure and consumption, then explicitly preview supported local file changes.

### Not for

live prompt inspection, automatic installation or activation, plugin-cache edits, cloud telemetry collection, or reconstructing usage that was never recorded.

## Questions, *answered.*

### Can I download ContextDaddy?

Yes. The beta is a free, signed and notarized Apple-silicon Mac build, distributed directly — no account, checkout, App Store or TestFlight listing. Updates are manual downloads for now.

### Does it change my agent setup?

Discovery stays read-only. For supported local skill and context-file changes, ContextDaddy shows a preview and waits for your explicit apply action; it does not install skills automatically, edit managed plugin sources or activate skills in an agent runtime.

### What does the usage view measure?

Local agent-log history via the bundled ccusage helper, provider allowance through installed provider CLIs when you ask, and OpenTelemetry signals from a compatible local collector. Missing sources are shown as unavailable, not zero activity.

### Does anything leave my Mac?

Provider allowance checks use installed CLIs and OpenTelemetry reads a loopback collector. The app has no account, sync or telemetry upload of its own.

### Which agents does it cover?

Discovery and policy models cover the major coding-agent runtimes, including Codex, Claude, Cursor, Devin and Grok. Non-auto skills show how to invoke them; policy is labelled explicit or derived.

## Audit the access.
*Trust the boundary.*

[Download for Mac](https://context.daddyrad.com/download)

Free during early access. Signed and notarized for Apple silicon on macOS 14 or later.

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Canonical: https://daddyrad.com/context/
Last updated: 2026-09-28