Owe: Gemma 4 drafts replies to avoided messages, with a local check on sending

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Owe is an open-source tool that takes a message the user has been avoiding and uses Gemma 4 through the Gemini API to draft a reply of at most 60 words. The model also names the one fact it must not invent and indicates whether the reply can be sent. A local script then checks the draft for word count and for any numbers, emails, or names absent from the original message or user note, and can block sending. Without a user decision, the tool produced a short holding reply, and with a note it produced a reply matching that decision. The message text goes to the Gemini API, so the tool does not work offline, though the final send decision stays on the user's machine.

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