First steps · Guides

Get the Mac app running, grant capture access, sign in when you need VLM assistance, and start recording. History stays on this Mac.

Step 1

Get the app

Open the DMG from Download for Mac, drag PDigger to Applications, and eject the disk image. Open PDigger from Applications.

If macOS blocks an unidentified developer:

Open System Settings → Privacy & Security (sidebar).
Scroll to the Security section. After you try to open PDigger, Open Anyway appears there. Confirm Open.
Leave Allow applications from on App Store & Known Developers. Managed Macs may prohibit the exception. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally.

macOS Privacy and Security scrolled to Screen and System Audio Recording and the Security section — Privacy & Security. Scroll until you see Screen & System Audio Recording (you will click that for capture). Open Anyway appears under Security after a blocked launch — it is per-app, not a switch that allows every app.

Step 2

First launch

The window opens at once. While local storage opens, PDigger shows Preparing your history (and Reading your history while the history file is scanned). Launch, status and Start never present permission sheets.

PDigger window showing Preparing your history while local storage opens — On first launch the window is already open while PDigger prepares the history stored on this Mac.

Step 3

Capture access

Until Screen Recording and Accessibility are granted, a Capture access dialog stays in front of the workspace. Each row shows Granted or Not granted. Request access asks macOS once for all three panes. Open System Settings opens that row’s pane.

Input Monitoring is listed too, but it does not block capture. Without it there is no keystroke evidence. After Screen Recording (or Input Monitoring) changes, quit and reopen PDigger so macOS can apply the grant. Start and Pause never prompt. Existing permission entries are never cleared by the app.

Capture access dialog listing Screen Recording, Accessibility, and Input Monitoring with Request access — The Capture access dialog stays until Screen Recording and Accessibility are allowed. Request access asks macOS once for all three. Open System Settings jumps to that row’s pane.

In System Settings, grant the toggles like this:

Open Privacy & Security. Click Accessibility.
Turn on the switch next to PDigger. If it is missing, press Request access in the app, or the + under the list and choose PDigger.
Go back, then click Screen & System Audio Recording. Turn on PDigger the same way (or +).
Optionally open Input Monitoring. If the list is empty, press +, choose PDigger in Applications, then Open — or use Request access in the app. Turn the PDigger switch on. Capture still works if this list stays empty; keystroke evidence is then unavailable.
Quit PDigger and open it again after Screen Recording changes.

Privacy and Security list with Accessibility highlighted near the bottom — Click Accessibility in this list. Do not confuse it with Accessibility in the System Settings sidebar (display and motor settings).

Accessibility permission list with on and off switches next to each app, plus and minus at the bottom — Turn the switch on for PDigger. Apps are A–Z; if PDigger is not in the list yet, use + at the bottom or Request access from the app.

Screen and System Audio Recording list with a switch next to each app and plus at the bottom — Same pattern for Screen & System Audio Recording. Find PDigger and turn it on. You do not need anything under System Audio Recording Only.

Input Monitoring pane showing an empty list and plus to add an app — Before. Input Monitoring can be empty. Press + under the list (or Request access in the app). Capture still starts; there is no keystroke evidence yet.

macOS Open box on Applications with PDigger selected and the Open button enabled — After +, macOS may ask for your login password, then this Open box. Applications is already selected. Click PDigger, then Open. Do not pick another app.

Input Monitoring pane with PDigger in the list and the switch turned on — After. PDigger is in the list — leave the switch on for keystroke evidence. It does not block Start. Request access in the app can add this row without the Open box.

Do not replace the app to troubleshoot an enabled switch, and do not reset TCC as routine work.

Step 4

Open Settings and choose Sign in with Google…. Your default browser opens. Return to PDigger when the signed-in page appears (“You’re signed in.”).

Capture, Search and Documents work without sign-in. Ask, Skills and checkpoints need it. This app never reads a .env file and never shows an operator API key.

Settings panel with Sign in with Google before an account is connected — Settings → Sign in with Google… opens the browser. Capture, Search and Documents already work.

Settings panel after sign-in, showing the signed-in Google account — After you return from the browser, Settings shows that you are signed in. Ask and Skills can then use VLM assistance via local.pdigger.com.

Step 5

Start recording

Press Start in the top bar. Status shows Recording. Work in visible windows as usual, then press Pause when you are done. Start never presents a permission sheet; it uses the grants you already allowed.

Timeline page with the status showing Recording after Start — Start in the top bar. The status reads Recording until you Pause.

Step 6

What stays local

History, document maps and the capture buffer stay on this Mac. Removing the app does not delete history; use the app’s explicit history-deletion controls when you want that. When VLM assistance is needed, PDigger sends only the bounded evidence for that question to local.pdigger.com after you sign in. See Privacy.

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