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Awesome.

I wanted to try to implement this for months. You did a really good job.

Thank you! Still a WIP, but a very fun learning / inspiration project. Got a bit of Rust jammed in there, bit of device constraint dancing, bit of multiple LLM api normalization, bit of spacial vision LLM education, etc.

At some point I wanted to turn goMarkableStream into a MCP server (model context protocol). I could get the screen, but without “hack” I couldn’t write the response back.

The trick here is to inject events as if they came from the user. The virtual-keyboard works really reliably, you can see it over at https://github.com/awwaiid/ghostwriter/blob/main/src/keyboar... . It is the equivalent of plugging in the reMarkable type-folio.

Main limitation is that the reMarkable drawing app is very very minimal, it doesn't let you place text in arbitrary screen locations and is instead sort of a weird overlay text area spanning the entire screen.

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