Afaik you won’t find a single alternative, bit you’ll have to find multiple projects for specific features you’re looking for.

For example: Kanata for key remaps, text expansion, mouse input and a whole bunch of other keyboard stuff.

Most automation is done with shell scripts and command line utilities. So stuff like batch renaming you can do this way.

Window automation is DE/WM specific.

So if you could list your DE/WM and the specific kinds of automation, it will be easier to give suggestions.

It seems all AI stuff happens through the “Assistant Panel” and nothing is sent as long as you don’t interact with it.

It seems you can disable the assistant feature it is opt-out though

I haven’t used it but Zed seems like what you might be looking for.

Here’s what I know:

• Open Source
• Runs natively on Mac and Linux (no Windows support yet)
• Made by the same folks who made Atom

It’s a little new but It looks like it’s worth a try

How many Earths big is one eye of the smiley face?

C