Show HN: Nico – a two-agent type personal agent on your Mac
Hi HN. I'm Brian, I make Xmind, the most popular mind mapping app, since 2006. This is my new project Nico, a personal agent for the Mac. Every huge companies are building personal agents right now. The part I think matters most is the two-agent structure, so that's what Nico is built around. The front agent talks to you. Always available, only one session, one memory, continuously compaction, and it carries almost no tools, so it can answer fast. The worker agent does the job. It picks up tasks
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2026-11-05 18:45:30.676Z
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Source account: Hi HN. I'm Brian, I make Xmind, the most popular mind mapping app, since 2006. This is my new project Nico, a personal agent for the Mac. Every huge companies are building personal agents right now. The part I think matters most is the two-agent structure, so that's what Nico is built around. The front agent talks to you. Always available, only one session, one memory, continuously compaction, and it carries almost no tools, so it can answer fast. The worker agent does the job. It picks up tasks
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Source votes: 6 votes (Nov 5, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 4 (Nov 5, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Is Android ready for AI agents? What broke in 3324 actions on 45 phones” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026); “Show HN: Magertron – AI Orchestrator for agents' tools, APIs, LLMs and streams” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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