SHLEXBALLFINDER OF LOST FILES
A short detective game. Ten files with names nobody remembers, three suspects, one stolen pearl. Describe what you are looking for, read what turns up, and name the culprit.
CASE CLOSED
Ten files with names nobody remembered, and you found them by describing what was in them. That is how Shlexball works on a Mac: it searches file names and the text inside them, even inside PDFs and Word documents.
30 free searches, no account. macOS 15 or later. Apple silicon. 16 GB memory.
Take the case home: the ten case files as real PDF, Word, PowerPoint and text documents (zip, 100 KB), to search on your own Mac.
A game: these searches run in your browser over ten fictional files, with simple word matching. Shlexball on your Mac searches the folder you choose, with an AI model that runs on the Mac.
Featured researchFindbench 2.0
Our preserved 1.5B Pristine repair model passes 580 of 733 Findbench 2.0 tests. The new research note covers the gains, the training round that stalled, the supervision we repaired, and the experiments we recommend next.
Pristine repair is an experimental model awaiting release validation. These are development results for the preserved checkpoint.
One answer. Real execution. Each model’s first answer runs through the same native search broker. A pass requires exactly the expected files or refusal, with no semantic app assistance. The 733 cases form a development benchmark; the 76-case subset is already included.
The same 30 examples for the API models. Gemini Flash and Flash-Lite use medium thinking. The Shlexball models retain their trained prompts. These compare complete model and prompt recipes.
Spotlight matches names and indexed words, so a file you can describe but not name often slips past it. Shlexball works differently: type what you remember, like “the lease PDF from last spring”, and it searches file names and the text inside PDFs and Word documents to find it. The AI model runs entirely on your Mac, so your files are never uploaded. Start with 30 free searches, no account required.
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Shlexball's AI runs entirely on your Mac, finding lost files like your GitHub and Stripe recovery codes in seconds — and your files never leave your Mac.
The Shlexball launch film. The four searches in it are real, recorded on an Apple silicon Mac with the model running on the Mac.
YOU> the lease PDF from last spring
SHLEXBALL> Found it. 3 files.
Type what you remember. Shlexball searches file names, dates, and the text inside PDFs and documents, in the one folder you choose. The model runs on your Mac. Shlexball only reads: it never changes, moves or deletes a file.
