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Sidekick is a free, offline desktop companion for IT helpdesk techs. A small floating circle sits on top of every window. Click it and a searchable library of 545 vetted PowerShell and CMD commands opens instantly. Describe the problem in plain English, fill in the blanks with a guided form, and copy the ready-to-run command to your clipboard. No more digging through docs, half-remembered syntax, or risky copy-paste off random forums. Every built-in command is sourced from Microsoft Learn, and dangerous ones warn you before you run them. Sidekick never executes anything; it only copies text for you to paste yourself.

Features

    • Floating, always-on-top circle that drags anywhere and snaps to screen edges, with position saved.
    • Panel opens beside the circle; closing collapses back to the circle while the app keeps running.
    • System tray icon with a right-click menu.
    • Single-instance: only one Sidekick runs at a time.
    • Global hotkey (default Ctrl+Shift+K) to toggle the panel, rebindable with a reserved-combo guard.

    • Fuzzy search across title, description, tags, and intent phrases.
    • Ask mode: type ? to search by problem description.
    • Category filter pills across 12 categories.
    • Frecency ranking floats your most-used commands to the top.
    • Full keyboard navigation: arrows, Home, End, Enter to open, Esc to close.

    • Plain-English description with color-coded placeholder tokens.
    • Parameter form with a live filled preview and validation (email, UPN, GUID).
    • Copy template and copy filled command, with a manual-copy fallback.
    • Quick-fill variants for one-tap preset values.
    • Learn mode explainers, plus a "Verified" trust date on every command.

    • Next-step chips suggest the natural follow-up command, with a one-line reason.
    • Prerequisite hints tell you what to run first.
    • 197 commands linked together, with links tier-locked so advanced content never leaks into the normal flow.

    • Pin favourite commands to the top.
    • Hide and unhide built-in commands.
    • 6 role starter decks narrow the library to a role's subset.
    • Chains group commands and copy them as one script block.
    • 17 authored playbooks walk through step-by-step scenarios with shared parameters.

    • Destructive flagging: an amber banner and a two-step confirm before copying (97 commands).
    • Dry-run, recovery, and security notes on destructive commands.
    • Optional copy-confirm preview on every copy.
    • A one-time safety notice the first time you open the Advanced tier.
    • Trusted-source policy: every built-in cites a learn.microsoft.com URL.

    • A separate, always-visible tab with its own search and filter.
    • 208 escalation commands (AD disaster recovery, FSMO, krbtgt, ntdsutil, deep Exchange, Entra, Intune, Security).
    • Fully isolated from the main search so it never gets in your way.

    • History keeps a redacted log of copied commands (templates only, never your filled-in values).
    • Author your own snippets and export or import them as JSON.
    • An optional weekly check that the documentation links are still good.
    • All data is local and survives a reinstall.

    • A full settings panel plus a feature gallery.
    • A first-run tutorial that fires once.
    • A high-contrast theme tuned for readability.
    • Sticky-panel and remember-search options.
    • Screen-reader live regions, focus traps, and visible focus rings throughout.

    • NSIS installer (about 3.6 MB) that upgrades in place and keeps your data.
    • Portable build (about 9.4 MB) that runs from anywhere.
    • Updates by re-downloading the installer.

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