Quiet Machines exit guide for AI agents

Ask your AI what you can replace a paid app with, or let it find the paid subscriptions on your Mac, and get sourced free, included, buy-once and self-hosted alternatives from the exit guide: real prices, each option's catch, and switching steps. Works in Claude Code, Codex, the Claude app, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP client.

• MCP server: https://quietmachines.fyi/mcp (Streamable HTTP, read-only, no account)
• Skill: skills/subscription-exit: one app → alternatives, or the full scan → confirm → exit plan
• Privacy: the scan runs on your Mac and prints only matches. Your app list never leaves your Mac; the server only sees the app names you ask about or confirm. Privacy policy

Setup for every client, with copy buttons: https://quietmachines.fyi/guide#agents

Claude Code

claude plugin marketplace add rohitvpgawli/quietmachines-exit-guide
claude plugin install exit-guide@quietmachines

Or just the MCP server: claude mcp add --transport http exit-guide https://quietmachines.fyi/mcp

Codex (CLI and app)

codex plugin marketplace add rohitvpgawli/quietmachines-exit-guide
codex plugin add exit-guide@quietmachines

The plugin adds the skill and loads the tools in every chat. If you add the server yourself, include omit_tools_from, or Codex keeps the tools hidden until you name them:

[mcp_servers.exit-guide]
url = "https://quietmachines.fyi/mcp"
omit_tools_from = ["deferred"]

Then

Start a new chat (tools load when a session starts) and ask:

• "What can I replace Wispr Flow with?"
• "Which of my subscriptions can I replace with something I pay for once?"

You should see a find_alternatives call from exit-guide. If your AI searches the web instead, the tools aren't loaded in that chat.

Any other MCP client

Point it at https://quietmachines.fyi/mcp. The server also offers a subscription_exit_plan prompt with the full-scan workflow, so clients without skills still get it.

Tool	What it does
find_alternatives	Alternatives to one or more apps by name, typos fine ("wisperflow", "adobe cc")
search_alternatives	Search by task or keyword (e.g. "PDF", "dictation")
list_subscriptions	Every paid app in the guide, its plan, yearly price where sourced, and its alternatives
get_detection_index	App names, bundle ids, Homebrew casks, extensions and domains for local matching
get_alternatives	Full entries for confirmed ids: alternatives, costs, the catch, switching steps, sources
estimate_savings	Yearly total of sourced prices and a link to the printable exit receipt

The detection index is also plain JSON at https://quietmachines.fyi/api/exit-guide/detect.json.

The scan

osascript -l JavaScript skills/subscription-exit/scripts/scan.js

JavaScript for Automation, built into macOS: no installs. Read-only. It checks app bundles in /Applications and ~/Applications, brew list --cask, and VS Code/Cursor extension folders. It does not read browser history, email, keychains, documents or bank data. Installed does not mean paid: the skill always asks before counting anything.

Data

Served from the same data file as the guide pages, so the MCP and quietmachines.fyi/guide always agree. This repository is published from the Quiet Machines studio repo; open issues here. Prices are USD list prices from vendors' official pages, with a research date per entry. Alternatives made by Quiet Machines are flagged ours: true.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.