I kept doing the same handful of tiny things over and over. Retyping the same long CLI incantation. Taking a screenshot and then fumbling to get it somewhere an LLM could see it. Zipping a folder to hand a model some context. Asking a one-line question that did not deserve a browser tab.
None of these is a real problem. Each is about five seconds of friction. But five seconds, a hundred times a day, is your afternoon — and the interruption costs more than the seconds do. So I built Dax: one menu-bar app, five tools, each a single keystroke away.
What's in it
Frequent CLIs (⌃⌥↩) keeps the commands you actually run. Summon the palette anywhere, filter, hit Return, and it types the command into whatever terminal or field you were already in. Mark one to auto-run and it launches before your hand leaves the keyboard.
Uplink (⌃⌥U) turns whatever image is on your clipboard into a public link, ready to paste into any chat. Promptify (⌃⌥P) does the inverse: hand it an image and get back the prompt that would recreate it. Quick Question (⌃⌥Q) floats a panel over your work, answers in place, and gets out of the way. Bulk Upload (⌃⌥B) zips whatever files you drop in and hands you one link — a whole codebase as a single paste.
Built for agentic coding
The tools are shaped around how people work with Claude Code and Codex specifically. If you live in an agentic loop, you are constantly moving context between your machine and a model: a screenshot of the bug, a folder of files, a design you want matched. Every one of those handoffs used to be a detour. Now each is a shortcut.
It stays out of the way otherwise. No Dock icon, no window to manage, launch at login and forget it until you press a key.
Where it runs
macOS 14 and up, Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized, and free. Frequent CLIs never touches the network at all; the rest only reach out at the moment you invoke them, and only to return your result.
It's a free download at getdax.app, signed and notarized, and it updates itself quietly in the background. More tools land all the time — the toolbox only gets better.