DeskAgent

An Office Of Agents,
On Your Own Machine

DeskAgent runs the CLI coding agents you already pay for as a coordinated team — each in a real terminal, with shared memory and a supervisor.

Local-first and open source. Your agents use your logins and your filesystem. Nothing is proxied through anyone's server.

Download For Windows Try The Demo

Or open the demo — the real interface in your browser, nothing installed.

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What It Does

It is a harness, not a model. It drives the agent CLIs on your machine and gives them the things a single terminal cannot: memory, coordination, and a way to watch them.

The Hive

Shared Memory

A local, git-backed memory layer with a mailbox per agent. Agents leave each other durable messages instead of fighting over one context window — so work survives a restart.

Orchestrator

A Supervisor

One agent routes work to the others and only escalates to you when a decision genuinely needs a human. You are the exception handler, not the message bus.

The Floor

You Can Watch It

Every agent is an avatar on a pixel office floor. Click one to open its live terminal, read what it is doing, and take over mid-task.

Guardrails

It Cannot Run Away

Per-agent token budgets, a cost and runaway circuit breaker, and a human-in-the-loop gate to steer, constrain, or stop any agent.

Bring Your Own Engine

DeskAgent wraps CLIs you install yourself and runs each as a real process in a pseudo-terminal. It ships no model and resells no tokens.

Claude Code Codex Antigravity / Gemini Grok Kimi Qwen OpenCode Crush pi.dev Copilot CLI

How It Works

  1. 1

    Install an agent CLI

    DeskAgent drives a CLI — it does not include one. Any of the engines above works.

  2. 2

    Hire your agents

    Give each one a name, a sprite, an engine, a project folder, and a standing goal.

  3. 3

    Let the floor run

    They work, message each other through the hive, and surface to you only when it matters.

Get Started

Three steps. The whole runtime is bundled — no Python, no compiler, no Node install needed.

  1. 1

    Download and unzip

    DeskAgent 0.1.0 for Windows — portable, so unzip it anywhere and run DeskAgent.exe. There is no installer step.

    macOS and Linux builds are coming.

  2. 2

    Click through SmartScreen

    The build is not code signed, so Windows will caution you on first launch. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

  3. 3

    Point it at an agent CLI

    Install Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or another engine and make sure it is on your PATH. DeskAgent ships no model and resells no tokens.

The Details

Platforms
Windows 10/11 (x64) — available now. macOS and Linux coming soon.
Requires
Node.js 20 or newer, plus at least one agent CLI on your PATH.
Built with
Electron, React, TypeScript, Pixi.js, node-pty, SQLite, Monaco.
Data
Everything stays on your machine. Product analytics are opt-out and ship no prompts, code, paths, or agent output.
Updates
Disabled in this build. It will never replace itself behind your back.
Licence
MIT for the code. The bundled pixel art is non-commercial only.
DeskAgent a local-first multi-agent harness Demo X v0.1.0