Idea bar

Say what you want done,not how to do it

Type an idea into the palette and Khint plans it out of your own agents and the tools you've connected. You read the plan before anything runs, and a run worth keeping becomes a shortcut.

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Ran once · keep it and it becomes a shortcut

Or point at what is
already on your screen

The same entry sits in Capture & ask: one button under an answer turns it into a plan built from your own agents and connected tools. The steps light up inside the thread as they run, and what they created lands on your clipboard.

A plan is read before it's run, wherever it was born

The card names every step and the text it will work on, and resolving it costs nothing. The payoff is behind the window rather than inside it: the board gains the ticket, which is the only thing a chat window can't do for you.

What Khint is allowed
to put in a plan

A plan isn't a guess at what you might want. It's composed of two inventories you control, it reports whatever it couldn't reach, and it stays a one-off until you decide otherwise.

Built out of what you already have

The planner reads two lists: the agents in your active pack, and the write actions of the tools you've connected. It composes those. It can't invent a capability Khint doesn't have, and it never reaches a tool you haven't signed into.

Two boxes, two jobs

The search box filters what you saved. The idea bar describes what you have not. They stay separate on purpose, so a search is never mistaken for an instruction.

It says what it couldn't cover

Anything the plan can't reach is listed as unmet rather than quietly dropped, so you find out on the card instead of three steps into a run that ends nowhere.

Keep the run, keep the shortcut

A planned run is a one-off: nothing is saved unless it worked and you say so. Then Khint writes the steps out as real agents and a real workflow with its own key, so the second time is one press. A kept plan also keeps the surface it was born on: planned from a capture, it re-runs from a region on screen.

Nothing runs that
you haven't read

Planning and running are two separate presses, and the card between them is the whole point. A plan you don't like costs you an Esc.

Security and privacy
The plan is on screen before anything runs
Planning is free and spends no credits
Your selected text is never sent to the planner
Esc walks away, and nothing was written
What it couldn't cover is listed, not dropped
Only your pack and your connected tools are on the table
Never inferred from a question: it's always an explicit ⏎
A run is a one-off until you keep it

Three ways to hand it an idea

Type it in the palette, say it with the palette open, or point at something already on your screen. All three end on the same plan card.

Type it

The palette opens on the idea bar, focused and empty. Describe the work and press ⏎.

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  • ⌘⇧K from any app, in any text field
  • The plan lists its steps before a single one runs
  • Esc clears the bar, the search box still filters
  • macOS 13+ or Windows 10 22H2+

Say it

With the palette open, your dictation shortcut fills the idea bar instead of typing into the app behind.

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  • Press, describe the work out loud, press again
  • The transcript is filled in, not fired
  • You read it back, then press ⏎ yourself
  • Same gesture as dictation everywhere else

Point at it

Capture & ask carries the same entry: act on an answer, or on a fresh capture before any chat.

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  • Khint plans from what it read from your screen
  • The steps light up one by one inside the thread
  • The issue key or page link lands on your clipboard
  • Kept, it re-runs starting from a region capture

Common questions about the idea bar

What's the Khint idea bar?

The palette opens on a "Tell Khint what to do" input. Type what you want done in plain language, for example "summarize this and file it in Jira", and press Enter. Khint turns the sentence into a plan: a one-off workflow built from your own agents and the tools you've connected. You see the plan before anything runs, confirm it, and it runs. A chat window would give you text to copy; this gives you the work done, in the tools your team already reads.

Do I have to build an agent or a workflow first?

No, and that's the point. The idea bar is the way in for work you haven't set up yet: Khint writes the steps for this run. If the result was good it offers to save them, so the throwaway run becomes a reusable agent or workflow you can trigger by shortcut afterwards. You end up with a library you described rather than one you assembled.

What can Khint plan with?

The agents in your active pack, plus the write actions of the integrations you've connected: create a Jira issue, create a Confluence page, create a Linear issue, create a Notion page, post to Slack, draft a Gmail email. Anything it can't cover with those is reported on the plan card as unmet instead of being quietly dropped, so you never discover a missing step mid-run.

Can I speak my idea, or act on something on my screen?

Both. With the palette open, your dictation shortcut sends the transcript to the idea bar instead of pasting it into the app behind: the text is filled in, never fired, so you read back what Khint heard and press Enter yourself. Capture & ask carries the same entry point from the other side, a "Do this" button on an answer or on a fresh capture, where Khint plans from what it read from the screen and puts the created issue key or page link on your clipboard.

Does the idea bar read my selected text?

The run does; the planning does not. Your selected text is never sent to the planner: it only ever sees the sentence you typed, your agent names, and which tools you've connected. The plan card then shows you the text the run will actually work on before you confirm.

What does it cost to plan and to run?

Planning is free and never spends credits, so a plan you cancel costs nothing. Running it costs what the same work would cost as a normal run: one action's worth of your monthly credits per AI step, and nothing extra for the steps that write to your tools.

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