Warden

The problem

Focus apps don't actually understand what you're doing. A blocker can't tell the difference between research and doom-scrolling. A timer doesn't know if the Slack window you just opened is your manager or a meme thread. They punish breadth and reward obedience.

You don't need a louder blocker. You need something that understands what you're trying to do and quietly keeps you pointed at it.

What's different

• It's an agent, not a timer. Warden understands what you're doing locally on your Mac and reasons about whether it actually matches your goals.
• It negotiates instead of locking. Try to open a blocked app and Warden starts a short chat. Give it a goal-aligned reason and it unlocks. A real conversation.
• A companion, not a dashboard. A small creature in the corner shows what Warden is doing right now - watching, reasoning, interpreting vision. Status you can feel, instead of charts you'll never read.
• Learns your goals over time. Tell it what matters this week and it observes, logs alignment, and notices drift before you do. The longer it runs, the better it knows your version of focused.
• Local from the first byte. Screen context, goals, memory, the model - all of it runs on your Mac. Nothing leaves the device. Ever.