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I built a tiny local tool that won't say "done" unless it can prove it. FEEL free to give me suggestions

A developer built ORZN, a local task-runner that refuses to mark a task 'done' without proof of execution. The tool records every action and reports 'blocked' if it cannot verify completion, stopping for user approval before modifying files. It is free, MIT-licensed, and runs entirely locally without accounts.

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This is small and early, but I wanted to put it out there.

I got tired of AI that's all bark and no bite — confident, fluent, and it

tells you "Done!" whether or not anything actually happened. So I built the

opposite, in the narrowest way I could.

ORZN is a local task-runner. It does a handful of things on your own machine:

finds, reads, summarizes, moves and renames your files, launches apps, opens

sites. Nothing fancy.

The one idea I actually cared about: it records every action, and it won't

mark a task "done" unless there's evidence it happened. If it can't prove it,

it says "blocked" instead. And it stops for your approval before it changes

any file.

It's not a general "do anything" agent and it doesn't do much yet. Free, MIT,

local, no account — nothing leaves your machine unless you point it at a URL.

Genuinely want blunt feedback, including "this is too small to matter."

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