Every automation you run — the nightly backup, the deploy script, the cron job that checks a certificate, the AI agent you left running in a terminal — produces a small, important message: it worked, or it didn't, or you need to do something by Friday. And almost every one of those messages is delivered in the worst possible way.
Look at the usual options. A line in a log file you'll never open. A notification banner that flashes for five seconds while you're in a meeting, then lives forever in a notification center you'll never scroll. An email to yourself, mixed in with newsletters and receipts. A chat message that pings everyone or no one.
The message was delivered, technically. But delivery isn't the same as receipt. There's no place where "the machines told me what happened today" lives.
Email solved this for humans: one place, everything addressed to you, organized, persistent. Automation deserves the same thing — and it doesn't need accounts, servers, or a SaaS subscription to get it. It needs a directory, a file format, and an app that watches.
That's the idea behind WDD Inbox, our new macOS app:
wdd CLI wraps the whole thing in one command, so a shell script can say wdd push --project ops --level urgent --type todo --title "Disk at 91%" and be done.POST an event to 127.0.0.1 instead of writing a file.Three layers, one principle: if it can happen on your machine, it can land in your inbox. Events are plain JSON files on disk, written once and never modified, so the whole history stays inspectable — and stays yours.
None of this requires the cloud. There's no account, no sync, no telemetry, and nothing leaves your Mac — the HTTP listener binds to localhost only. An AI agent on your machine can tell you what it did without that message transiting anyone else's server, and the app itself collects nothing.
We think the tools that run your life should report to you the way a good colleague does: quietly, completely, and in a place you'll actually look.
WDD Inbox is available on the Mac App Store.