This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass When I saw the "Touch Grass" theme, it hit me: almost every "outdoor" or "break" app on the market has a fatal flaw—you are still staring at a screen. Hiking apps, run trackers, and meditation guides keep our heads bowed and our thumbs scrolling.
I wanted to build an agent that actively fights screen time. Meet DeskDetox—a local CLI tool built with the new open-source google.antigravity Python SDK. You tell it how much time you have, and it generates a hyper-local, weather-aware outdoor micro-adventure so you can leave your phone on your desk and actually experience the physical world.
Here is DeskDetox in action! I typed that I had 11 minutes for a quick break between PR reviews. The agent dynamically calculated my walking radius, checked the sky, and generated this mission:
(I actually followed this mission. Leaving my phone on my desk and walking out the door empty-handed felt strange at first, but incredibly liberating!)
The complete source code is available on GitHub. Because it is fully packaged, you can install it globally on your machine using pip!
GitHub Repository: Dev-Suraj-Dhawal/DeskDetox I built the core harness using Python, leaning entirely into open-source agent frameworks and open data.
LocalAgentConfig handles the agentic loop, tool wiring, and async streaming effortlessly from the terminal.
If this were a closed, proprietary mobile app, it would be a privacy nightmare. It would require background location tracking, push notifications, and harvesting my daily routines on a central server just to tell me to go outside. Because DeskDetox uses an open-source agent harness running locally on my terminal:
It is an anti-app—it runs locally, gives you a mission, and then you close your laptop.