PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and the rest, read straight off your Mac. Pick the file when you run or pin one for good, and choose what comes back: the text, or the same document rewritten with its design intact.
An agent whose input is a document reads the file instead of your selection: no copying, no pasting a spec into a chat window, no window to keep open. Pick it from the palette, or drop it there, and the agent runs on what the document says.
The picker is free and opens before anything runs, so a canceled pick costs nothing. Here the agent is set to hand back the document itself: the paragraphs turn over, the styles and images stay exactly where they were, and what you get is a new file with Download and Reveal on it.
The formats you actually get sent, read locally rather than uploaded somewhere. Khint looks at the bytes rather than the file name, decides once per agent where the file comes from, and lets a whole workflow start from one.
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, EPUB, RTF, and any plain text or code file. Screenshots and photos go through the same OCR that powers Capture. The text is extracted on your Mac, so reading costs nothing except on that image path, which is a Vision call like a capture.
A PDF saved as .txt resolves, and so does a file with no extension at all. A scan with no text layer is reported as a scan and pointed at Capture, instead of coming back silently empty.
Two modes per agent. The palette can ask for the file first, or the agent can always read the same document. Picking is free: cancel and nothing is billed.
A workflow takes the same trigger, with the same two modes, and then does what a workflow does: up to five steps, ending in Jira, Confluence, Linear, Notion or Slack. The minutes go in as a PDF and the tickets come out filed, with nobody retyping anything in between.
Every agent says what it gives you. Most hand back text and paste it where your cursor was. A document agent can hand back the document: the same file, rewritten, with the layout somebody spent an afternoon on still on it.
Set an agent to give you the edited file and the same Word document, deck or spreadsheet comes back rewritten: the styles, headings, tables and images are the ones that were already there. Khint writes every byte of structure itself and only ever swaps the text inside a paragraph, so a model can propose words and can never corrupt a file.
A PDF is repainted line by line. Text that won't fit its box, a background that's not one flat color, a character the font can't draw: each is named in the preview rather than quietly approximated.
A rewrite you can't inspect is a rewrite you can't ship. Nothing here is written back into the file you gave it.
Security and privacyPoint an agent at one, ask for the file back instead of text, or start a whole workflow at a document. Each one is a field in an editor you already use.
Set any agent's input source to Document and it reads the file instead of your selection.
Switch what the agent gives you from text to the document itself, rewritten.
See what an agent readsA whole routine can begin at a file and end in the tools your team reads.
See workflowsA document is one thing you can hand over. These three are what happens next.
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, EPUB, RTF, and any plain-text or code file. Pages, Keynote and Numbers documents are read through the PDF preview they carry. Image files (screenshots, photos, scans saved as PNG or JPEG) go through the same OCR that powers Capture. Khint checks the content rather than the extension, so a PDF named .txt or a file with no extension still resolves. Two deliberate gaps, both named rather than silently failed: the 1990s binary .doc and .ppt formats, which you save as .docx or .pptx first, and a scanned PDF with no text layer, which Khint reports as scanned and points at Capture & ask.
Yes, and that's the point. Set an agent to give you the edited file and a Word document, slide deck or spreadsheet comes back rewritten with its design intact: same styles, same headings, same tables, same images. The model never sees a file format. It's handed the paragraphs as plain text and returns only the ones it changed; Khint writes every byte of structure itself and swaps the text inside each paragraph, which is why a rewrite can be wrong but can never corrupt the file.
Never. The original isn't even opened for writing. The result is saved as a new file, and a preview shows exactly which paragraphs changed before you download it or reveal it in Finder. Edited documents also stay reachable from your Home history, with Download and Reveal right on the row. If the file changed on disk while the agent was working, Khint refuses to write rather than apply the edits to the wrong paragraphs.
Two modes, chosen per agent. Ask me each run: the palette opens a picker with a drop zone, your recent files and browse, before anything runs. Or pin one file to the agent so it always reads that document: a living spec, a glossary, a style guide. Picking is free: canceling the picker never costs a run. A workflow takes the same trigger with the same two modes, so a PDF of meeting minutes can go in and filed tickets can come out.
A PDF edit is repainted line by line, in place, and Khint is honest about the hard cases: text that won't fit its box, a background that's not one flat color, a character the font can't draw. Each one is named in the preview rather than quietly approximated. Reading a PDF works on anything with a text layer; a scan without one is reported as scanned and pointed at Capture & ask, rather than coming back as an empty document.
The text is extracted on your Mac, so opening the file costs nothing for every text format: only images go through OCR, which is a Vision call like a capture. A file small enough to send whole is sent whole; a big one is condensed once and that summary is cached against the file's own content, so re-running is instant and a changed file refreshes itself on the next run. Editing is the heavy end, so the palette shows the estimate before it bills: Edit document · ~4 credits.
Free with 300 credits a month. No credit card. macOS 13+ or Windows 10 22H2+.
PDFwith a text layer
Excel.xlsx, .ods, .xls
PowerPoint.pptx
