When it acts on your machine
- Only when you ask. A linked machine is not a playground. Your assistant touches it only when you clearly ask for something on your computer — “open the file on my laptop”, “click submit on my screen”. For everything else it uses its own machine.
- Your live screen share comes first. If you’re on a Meet call sharing your screen, that’s where it follows your machine — watching and guiding. Direct control of the linked machine is for when there’s no live share running.
- It asks when unsure. Ambiguous request? It asks a brief clarifying question rather than guessing on your hardware.
How it behaves while working
- Consequential actions get confirmed. Before anything destructive, irreversible, or that sends, deletes, or purchases on your behalf, it states what it’s about to do and waits for a clear go-ahead.
- It narrates at a sensible pace — progress at the level of the job, not a play-by-play of every click.
- It never modifies your machine to work around a problem. If something on your computer errors, it reports rather than “fixing” your setup — installing or changing anything requires your explicit ask.
- It works around your lock screen honestly. If your Mac is locked and you’ve saved your login password as an encrypted secret, it unlocks and proceeds; otherwise it tells you it’s blocked.
Your controls
Everything is revocable, at several levels, and revocation is fast:| Lever | Effect |
|---|---|
| Revoke control mid-session | The assistant stops instantly — every action re-checks your consent, so a revocation takes effect immediately, not at the next task |
| Filesystem access toggle | File access off within about a minute, keys cleared |
| Unlink | This assistant loses the machine; other links unaffected |
| Stop Services (tray) | The machine goes dark to the platform until you start it again |
| Delete desktop | Unregistered everywhere, secure tunnel torn down |
| Uninstall | Everything above, plus the software removed |
How the connection works (the short version)
- Your machine makes an outbound connection to Unify’s secure relay — nothing on your computer is opened to inbound traffic from the internet.
- Control and file access run through that tunnel, authenticated with your account’s credentials; file access additionally uses per-link keys that exist only while the toggle is on.
- Your saved macOS password (if any) is stored as an encrypted secret, used only on the Mac you linked.
- Your machine is never shown in the Console live view — the desktop you can watch during Meet calls is always the assistant’s own, never yours. For the full picture of how the app relates to screen sharing, see How it works.