{
  "id": 1898818,
  "title": "I Built a Lightweight Macro Recorder in Rust (Mostly with an AI Agent)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/i-built-a-lightweight-macro-recorder-in-rust-mostly-with-an-ai-agent",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-19T09:01:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/blackixxce12/i-built-a-lightweight-macro-recorder-in-rust-mostly-with-an-ai-agent-27f4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I got tired of closed-source macro tools. Most of them store macros in binary formats, have poor DPI awareness, and install global keyboard hooks. For a tool that essentially injects input, closed source felt uncomfortable. So I wrote my own. What it is Single ~7 MB .exe , no installer MIT license Macros are plain JSON (easy to edit and diff) Small scripting layer on top: If / While , variables,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}