What this helps you do
You can treat your feed like a live source that Alter reads from the screen. Instead of pulling data from an API, Alter summarizes what is currently visible in your browser and helps you build a digest iteratively.Works with
- App: X in your browser
- Tool type: Computer Use (screen-based)
- Permissions: Accessibility and Screen Recording
What Alter can do today
Alter can read visible feed content, summarize posts on screen, extract recurring topics, and merge multiple on-screen batches into one digest.What Alter does not do yet
- It does not use the official X API for this workflow.
- It cannot summarize posts that are not currently visible unless you scroll and ask again.
- It is not a full X account automation flow (posting, moderation, or analytics pipelines).
A realistic workflow
Copy/paste prompts
- “Summarize the tweets currently visible in my X feed.”
- “List the top 5 topics in the visible posts, with one-line evidence for each.”
- “Scroll down, capture the next batch, and summarize only new topics.”
- “Combine the last two feed summaries into one concise daily digest.”
How to enable
Enable Computer Use tools
Open Alter -> click the three dots -> Tools Manager -> Local Tools -> enable Alter tools (Computer Use).
Grant required macOS permissions
In Alter settings, allow Accessibility and Screen Recording so Alter can read and interact with app windows.
What to expect
- Best quality comes from short iterative loops: summarize -> scroll -> summarize -> merge.
- If the wrong window is targeted, bring the browser window to front or ask Alter to list windows and target the correct one.