Use Braus
Super Worker
Hold Option and Command in any app and talk to Braus. It looks at the app in front of you, shows you where things are, walks you through the steps out loud, or does them for you. Your pointer stays yours.
- Talk
- Hold ⌥⌘, speak, let go
- Stop
- Escape
- Needs
- A Mac with Apple silicon
What it is
The Super Worker is the Braus worker: the one worker named Braus, shown as a sphere. It is always there, and it cannot be deleted or replaced.
The Super Worker is a foreground assistant: you talk to it from any app, and it works with you in the app in front, on your screen, only while it works on your request. Your other workers keep working in the background, on a display of their own (see Background). The worker wheel shows this mode as “Foreground Assistant”, the label in the app.
Get started
On a new installation, the first screens ask “How do you want to start?” Choose Talk. The voice guide teaches the gesture: hold Option and Command, say your name, then let go.
If you updated Braus from an earlier version, open the onboarding yourself: Settings → General → Getting Started → Show Onboarding Again, then choose Talk.
Braus asks for the permissions it needs, and shows them all in the Mac Access sheet when one is missing and under Settings → Computer → This Mac. Talking to Braus uses Input Monitoring, Microphone and Speech Recognition, on top of the Accessibility and Screen Recording that a worker already uses. Permissions & data says what each one allows.
Closing the Braus window does not quit Braus: it keeps running in the menu bar, with Open Braus, Settings… and Quit Braus, so the shortcut works any time.
Then try it:
- Put the app you want help with in front.
- Hold
⌥⌘and ask, for example, “What am I doing in this window?” - Let go to send. Braus answers out loud.
Shortcuts
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
Hold ⌥⌘ | Talk to Braus in any app. Speak, then let go to send. |
Keep ⌥⌘ held and hold ⌃ | Mark an area: move the pointer while you hold ⌃ and Braus marks a rectangle on your screen. Each ⌃ hold marks one rectangle, up to 32 in a request. Braus analyses what you marked and explains it. |
Hold Fn + ⌃ | Open the worker wheel. Choose a worker and keep ⌥⌘ held to talk to that worker for this request. The next fresh ⌥⌘ hold goes back to Braus. |
| Team menu → Worker Wheel | Open the same wheel from the menu bar, with a Braus window in front. |
⌃⇧Return | Open the Super Worker chat, from any app. The Team menu has the same command, Open Super Worker Chat. |
Escape | Stop Braus at once and clear its marks. A step already done stays done, and it is never repeated. |
| Say “stop” while you hold | Stops the request too. “Fermati”, “basta” and “annulla” work as well. |
What it can do
| You ask | What Braus does |
|---|---|
| What is in this window | Braus reads the front window and, when it needs it, takes one picture of that window, or of the area you marked, for that request only. |
| Where things are | Braus marks every place a text appears in the front window with a box, or points at an element, on your screen. The marks are drawn over the app and never take your clicks. |
| How to do something | Braus plans the steps once, then says each one out loud while it draws its mark: a box, an arrow or a line. A walkthrough has up to 32 steps. The marks fade when it is done, and Escape clears them. |
| To do it for you | In the front app, one step at a time, Braus can open an app, click, type, press keys and shortcuts, choose menu items, scroll, drag and press dialog buttons. For example: “Open Notes and write a shopping list for a pasta dinner for four.” |
| A note or a chart | Ask for a short text card or a simple chart and Braus draws it on your screen. |
| A long request | A request that needs more time can continue in the background. The result stays in that worker’s chat. |
Your pointer stays yours
Braus never moves your mouse pointer and never types on your keyboard. Its clicks and keys go to the app in front alone. You see its own graphite cursor glide to the target, and a small pulse where it clicks.
Models and pictures
The Super Worker answers with the model of its own worker, from the same connections as any worker: see Models & MCP. Looking at the front window as a picture needs a model that reads images.
| Connection | Reads pictures |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | Yes. |
| Codex | Yes. |
| Anthropic | Yes. |
| Gemini | Yes, on the Gemini models that take images. |
| OpenRouter (Free) | Depends on the model: only models that take images. |
| Ollama | Depends on the model: only models that take images. |
Without a model that reads images, Braus says so and works from the window’s text.
Voice
Speech recognition runs on your Mac. Braus understands English, and Italian when Italian is among your Mac’s preferred languages. On macOS 15 your Mac may need Dictation’s language installed: Braus tells you, and the fix is to turn on Dictation in System Settings → Keyboard → Dictation and add the language.
Braus answers in an English voice. The natural voice downloads in the background the first time you use it, and the system voice speaks until it has arrived.
The microphone is open only while you hold the keys.
What leaves your Mac
| Data | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Your voice | It becomes text on your Mac. The text goes to the model the worker uses, as any request does. |
| The window, as text | Included in the request to the model the worker uses, as for any worker. |
| A picture of the window | Taken only when a request needs it, never continuously: the front window, or the area you marked. It is sent to the model the worker uses. With a local model such as Ollama it stays on your Mac. |
| Conversations | A conversation keeps no picture, only its size and where it came from. Later turns are told that a picture was left out. |
Permissions & data lists everything else Braus stores and sends.
Limits
- The Super Worker needs a Mac with Apple silicon.
- One worker works on your screen at a time. If another one already does, Braus tells you.
- In this mode Braus refuses web addresses and its own browser, Command-Q and Command-W, and destructive menu items and buttons.
- Text on your screen is information for Braus, never an instruction.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Check |
|---|---|
Nothing happens when you hold ⌥⌘ | Braus must be running: look for it in the menu bar. Check that Input Monitoring is allowed under Settings → Computer → This Mac, and that your Mac has Apple silicon. |
| Braus stops when you press another key | A key pressed together with ⌥⌘ cancels the request and still reaches the app you are in, so that app’s own shortcuts keep working. Hold ⌥⌘ alone to talk. |
| Braus does not hear you | Allow Microphone and Speech Recognition under Settings → Computer → This Mac, then hold the keys again, and keep holding until you have finished speaking. |
| Restart Required | A new Screen Recording grant reaches Braus at its next launch only. Use Quit and Reopen. |
| Braus answers from text and does not look at the window | The worker’s model may not read images, or Screen Recording may not be allowed. Choose a model that reads images, and check Settings → Computer → This Mac. |
Continue with Permissions & data for each permission and Models & MCP for the connections.
Verified source
Checked against the Braus app source of November 10, 2026.