Screenpipe Lets Your AI Watch You Work, Then Do It for You

You know which parts of your week you could hand off to anyone if only you had time to explain them. What if the explanation was just: watch what I do?

What's happening

Screenpipe records your screen and audio 24/7, stores everything in a private local database on your own machine, and makes that history queryable by AI agents. No data goes anywhere unless you send it. The project is open source on GitHub, has 20,000+ stars and 1,900+ forks, and shipped v2.5.140 this week.

The automation layer is called "Pipes": scheduled AI agents you define in plain text. A pipe is a prompt, a schedule, and a permission set. It runs on your screen history, calls tools or APIs you authorize, and writes output wherever you point it. A morning standup pipe pulls your overnight activity and drops a plain-language summary into Slack. A CRM pipe watches every customer conversation and logs key details into your contact records automatically. A time-tracking pipe categorizes your entire week based on what it actually saw on screen, not what you remembered to type.

Screenpipe connects to Ollama for a fully offline setup, so nothing has to leave your device. It also integrates with OpenAI, Notion, GitHub, and 50+ other tools if you want the output to land somewhere specific.

Try this this week

• Download the desktop app from screenpipe.com or the GitHub releases page (look for the Screenpipe-App asset for Mac, Windows, or Linux)
• Install Ollama and pull llama3.2 if you want everything local and offline
• Run screenpipe through one normal workday. It stays in the background and captures everything locally
• Open the Pipes tab and try the built-in daily-summary pipe: set it to run at 5 pm, then check the output the next evening. See if it accurately reflects your actual day
• If it does, build one more pipe for the routine task you most dread: CRM notes, weekly time log, end-of-day client update

The bigger picture

Workflow knowledge usually lives in someone's head. Small teams are especially exposed when that head is yours and you are doing everything. Screenpipe captures what you actually do, not what you planned to document, and puts it in a form an AI can act on. That is a different kind of automation: not "write a script," but "watch me once." The setup takes an afternoon, the data stays yours, and the whole thing is free. That is exactly the smallest-working-thing approach worth trying before you buy another subscription.