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Lexicon adds guided import and community packs

By Ashlr.AIAI-assisted briefingPublished Oct 9, 2026, 7:38 AM UTC4 min read

Lexicon merged a guided way to build your vocabulary from sources you pick, plus previewed community packs. It is in the code but not yet in a numbered release.

What changed

Lexicon fixes the words speech-to-text gets wrong. The hard part is filling the list. On October 9, 2026, Lexicon merged a pull request that adds a guided way to do it.

Guided import reads only the sources you explicitly select. It shows a description of each source before it checks whether the source is available, and cancelling the checklist probes nothing. The pull request lists local sources such as Contacts and Calendar on macOS, and GitHub through a session you already have. It says previews go back to the requesting client and may reach its model, so you should know where your own data goes.

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Community packs are lists of terms that others share. Before anything is applied, Lexicon previews every field of every term, including spellings and notes the model will see. Installation uses the exact bytes that were verified. A related pull request added 21 AI and developer names to the starter packs, bringing the four packs to 176 terms.

A third pull request fixes setup problems. Re-registering Lexicon used to replace a client's whole settings entry and lose custom options. It now keeps them. The installer now pins the stable version it finds and stops if it cannot find one, instead of silently installing the main branch.

The limits are stated in the pull request. The package version stays 0.5.4 and the changes sit under "Unreleased". No release or npm publish was made, and the repository had no npm token at that time. Email and Slack import and a hosted or signed marketplace are not built.

What it means for your work

For builders

Design import flows so a user can see what will be read before it is read. "Preview first, read only what was chosen" is a good default for anything that touches personal data.

For business

Vocabulary lists often contain customer and employee names. Ask where that list is stored and who can add to it. Shared packs need a review step like the preview Lexicon describes.

Put it to work

Write down the ten names your dictation gets wrong most often. That is the minimum useful lexicon, with or without import.

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Ashlr tools connected to this story. Review their source and setup requirements.

Lexicon

Keep a personal vocabulary of names and speech-to-text corrections in one YAML file, then use it across coding-agent tools, MCP connections, and browser workflows.

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Source material behind this briefing. Our practical implications are Ashlr’s interpretation.

Guided vocabulary import and community pack registry (pull request) (opens in a new tab)
Ashlr.AIOct 9, 2026
Preserve MCP client settings and pin stable installer releases (pull request) (opens in a new tab)
Ashlr.AIOct 9, 2026
Fix flaky voice test, expand starter packs (pull request) (opens in a new tab)
Ashlr.AIOct 9, 2026

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