Sider Omni Sidebar
Product Hunt Rick Fan
Sider Omni Sidebar is an AI agent that sits beside Mac apps and works on what’s on your screen. It uses GPT-6 Astra, and it can run on existing ChatGPT or Codex credits.
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Sider has launched Omni Sidebar, an AI agent for Mac that works right next to whatever app is open. The pitch is simple: it sees what’s on the screen and acts on it there, instead of making you copy text out and send it somewhere else.
That matters because the workflow is the product here. You watch the result, then ask for the next change. No uploading. No switching contexts. Just a sidebar doing the back-and-forth inside the same Mac session you were already in.
The system is built on GPT-6 Astra, which is a notable detail because Sider says it can run on existing ChatGPT or Codex credits. That lowers the friction a bit for people already paying into that ecosystem, and it also hints at how Sider wants this to feel: less like a separate tool, more like an extra hand attached to the window you’re already using.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of AI product: less grandstanding, more messing directly with the thing on screen. The industry has spent ages pretending “copy, paste, upload, wait” was a feature. It wasn’t. The real test now is whether these sidebars stay useful once the demo glow fades and people expect them to behave like a reliable coworker, not a polite accident.
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