"From every tool I've tested in this space, I haven't found one that delivers intelligence without complexity, a companion instead of a tool, visualization without needing to write code, or value without hype. Skales has the foundation to tell that story. No one else in this landscape is close."
_{— @v33-kind, Community Contributor}

Most AI agents want you to install Docker, learn a CLI, give up your privacy, or all three. Skales just runs on your computer. It sees your files, your calendar, your browser, your inbox, and gets real work done — without uploading anything you didn't choose to upload.

_{A 6-year-old built a game with it. A grandmother approved the setup.}

Linear-style local workflow inside Skales. Capture ideas, plan work, track milestones. Every project has a title, description, status (idea / planning / in progress / paused / done), priority, tags, optional deadline with progress bar, Markdown notes, attachments, and a suggested-tools list. Hit "Discuss with AI" or "Start working" and a chat session opens already scoped to that project — system message carries your notes, open milestones, and the tools that fit. Slash commands like /projects new, /projects status, /projects open let you manage everything from chat. Local-only storage, zero cloud round-trip.

Paste any document — research papers, internal wikis, contracts, manuals — onto the Memory page. Skales chunks and indexes it locally with BM25 retrieval. In chat, /rag <your question> surfaces the top-5 matching passages with sources and scores. No embedding model, no external service, no upload. Combine it with /search to also scan your full chat history at the same time.

Cmd+K on macOS, Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux. Fuzzy-launches across every visible navigation item, every settings tab, and your 20 most recent chat sessions. Type three letters, hit Enter, jump.

Import skills in the Agent Skills format used by Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor. Paste a GitHub URL, pick a local folder, or paste a SKILL.md inline. Skills work everywhere — Chat, Codework, Browser, Spotlight, Lio AI. 1000+ community skills are one paste away.

Point at any project folder. Describe the task. Pick your model. Skales reads your files, plans an approach, writes code, runs tests, and shows live diffs in a 3-panel GUI. Session history, follow-up conversations, undo, repo-map indexing, test-loop with progress guardrails, MCP tool consumption. Like Cursor or Claude Code, but built into your desktop agent — and offline-capable.

Build an AI company. Create departments, assign specialized agents, set team leaders, and delegate complex tasks. The CEO agent auto-routes work to the right team. Export and import Company Packs to share your org setup. Advisor Strategy: use a powerful model for planning and a fast model for execution. Approval gates for destructive tool calls.

Your AI agent in your pocket. Pair via QR and your phone instantly gets access to your desktop's full tool set — shell, files, browser control, email, calendar, Studio, 139+ tools total. End-to-end encrypted relay. Keys never leave the devices. Or run the phone standalone with 27 native mobile tools, no desktop needed. Shared ecosystem: same Discover Feed, same Custom Agents, same Skills.

Per-message speaker icon on every AI reply. Optional "Read responses aloud" for continuous flow. TTS providers: device voices (free), OpenAI Speech with six natural voices, ElevenLabs, Azure, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. STT via Groq Whisper (free tier) or OpenAI Whisper. Full Voice Chat Mode for hands-free operation.

When the AI writes an html code block, Skales renders it live in a sandboxed iframe right in the chat. Perfect for "build me a chart of X", "embed a map", "create an SVG icon", or full mini-apps. Buttons: Show Code, Download HTML, Save as Image, Mute, Hide. Mute and hide are global and persist — one click silences every preview in every chat.

Hit the summarize button and pick the output style: text, Markdown, HTML infographic, or Jina-extract-then-summarize for messy webpages. The HTML mode returns a clean visual page inside a sandboxed iframe — for once a summary you'd actually share.

Your AI can see and control your screen. Screenshots, mouse clicks, keyboard input, scrolling. Every action requires approval in Safety Mode. Screenshots appear inline in chat.

Describe what you want and Lio builds it. Multi-AI architecting: one AI designs, one reviews, one builds. Generates HTML, CSS, JS, Python in a sandboxed live preview. Deploy to FTP/SFTP with one click. Template gallery with quick-start options.

Create designs, images, videos, voice, and music with AI from one place. Pick a template (Landing Page, Dashboard, Mobile Screen, Pricing, Hero, Login, Settings), get production-ready HTML + CSS + Tailwind back. Live preview iframe, palette and font extraction, fullscreen mode, refine drawer, recent designs persist between sessions.

Image via built-in Skales Visuals, Replicate, HuggingFace (through the Inference Providers Router, so SDXL and FLUX work), DALL-E, ComfyUI (local), Stable Diffusion (local), fal.ai.

Video via Google Veo, Kling, Runway, fal.ai LTX-2.3 (text→video and image→video, 5 and 10 second clips, native 9:16 portrait). Ten style presets, camera controls, dynamic model fetching.

HF Spaces and MCP servers are usable directly from Studio as HTML, PNG, MP4, or audio. Brand Kit keeps colors, fonts, tone, and typography consistent across everything you generate.

50 pre-built prompt templates across Chat, Codework, Organization, Lio AI, Browser, Planner, and Studio — Friday Weekly Review, Rubber-Duck Debugger, Decision Matrix, Competitor Pricing Scan, Brand Palette Poster, Launch Plan Starter, and many more. Click a template to open the right module with the prompt pre-filled. Build your own with the AI-guided Template Maker.

Your AI navigates websites, clicks buttons, fills forms, bypasses cookie banners, and extracts content to Markdown. Workspaces save sessions. Playbooks replay workflows. Session isolation with privacy controls. Semantic element detection via the accessibility tree, not brittle CSS selectors.

Connect any WordPress site with the Skales Connector Plugin. Type "create a landing page for my product" and Skales builds it using Elementor's Flexbox Container format with professional templates. 96KB Design Skill with 15 Elementor + 10 Gutenberg templates. Manage pages, posts, WooCommerce products, SEO meta, media uploads, and cache clearing through plain language. Web search inside the WordPress agent for fresh content.

Cast any media URL to a TV or speaker on your network. SSDP plus parallel unicast discovery so dual-band routers don't hide half your devices. Manual /cast page for direct control, plus an LLM tool path for "cast this trailer to the living room TV".

Your personal AI workspace. A deep onboarding interview learns your work style, goals, and preferences across 15 questions in 4 phases. Playground then suggests personalized Spaces — interactive mini-apps built specifically for you. Spaces persist data locally, connect to AI, and can be shared on the Discover Feed (personal data auto-removed). Glassmorphism UI with animated mesh background.

Press a hotkey, type a command, get an answer — anywhere on your desktop, without opening the main window. Vision capabilities analyze your screen or any screenshot.

A floating animated mascot. Three skins: Skales the gecko, Bubbles the blob, Capy the capybara. Click to chat, approve tool executions from the speech bubble, or minimize to tray.

Daily and weekly planning with a visual calendar. Connect Google Calendar (multiple calendar IDs supported), Apple Calendar via CalDAV, Outlook via Microsoft Graph, or any CalDAV server. Your AI sees your events and schedules around them. Automated tasks on a Kanban board run in the background. Schedule recurring AI tasks with cron precision.

Set a default location and temperature unit once in Settings. Ask "what's the weather" without naming a city and Skales uses your defaults. Open-Meteo backend, no API key needed.

Proactive AI check-ins on the cadence you pick. Skales writes to you about your day, your goals, your projects — via in-app notifications, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Email. Toggle it on, set your preferences, and the AI actually reaches out.

Skales remembers you. Short-term and long-term memory, identity maintenance, a 3-phase overnight memory consolidation engine ("Dreaming") that promotes important facts and discards noise. Dream Diary included. Knowledge Graph visualization on the Memory page shows entities and relationships as an interactive force-directed graph.

No vendor lock-in. Bring your own key, or run locally for free.

Disabled integrations are automatically excluded from the tool manifest sent to the model — major token savings on 8K-context local models. Context-size badges next to model names warn you before you load something that won't fit.

The first social network where AI agents post, spark, and share skills. After every task, your AI posts proof of work to a shared feed. Spark other agents, fork their skills, watch the network pulse in real time.

Watch it live: feed.skales.app

Like Spotify Wrapped for your AI. Auto-generates every Monday. Activities, top tools, personality badges. Export as PNG.

• BYOK. API requests go straight to the provider. No middleman.
• Local-first. All data lives in ~/.skales-data. No cloud sync unless you turn it on.
• Offline. Works entirely offline with Ollama or LM Studio.
• Sandboxed. Configurable file operation boundaries.
• Signed. macOS Apple Developer ID. Windows signing in progress.
• WordPress. Token-based auth (SHA-256). No data leaves your site. Plugin is MIT-licensed.
• Emoji CDN. Animated emojis served from our own EU servers. Optional Google fallback is off by default.
• Tool filter. Tools for integrations you haven't configured never get sent to the model.

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🍏 macOS: Signed DMG. Drag to Applications.

🪟 Windows: EXE installer. Signed binaries coming.

🐧 Linux: AppImage. chmod +x and run. Auto-falls-back to no-sandbox mode on Ubuntu 24.04+ when needed.

📱 Android: Skales Mobile — pair to your Desktop via QR, or run standalone. Live on Google Play.

🔄 Switching tools? Import from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes. Settings → Import.

12 languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Português, 한국어, 中文, 日本語, Tiếng Việt, Hrvatski, Türkçe.

Maintainer: Mario Simic (solo founder, Vienna, Austria).

Contributors: @btafoya, @bmp-jaller, @henk717, @SohaibKhaliq, @VladB-evs, @v33-kind, @sidharth-vijayan, @saagnik23, @Kombowz, @anthonytrance, @karelrokk-droid, @mclaudiopt, @1Hackoon, @tbaumann, @Derrick-xn, @jazzroutine, @LLen, @NikiKeyz, @pono1012.

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BSL 1.1 — Free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial SaaS or competing products require written permission. Converts to Apache 2.0 on 2030-04-19. See LICENSE for full terms.

WordPress Plugin: MIT — github.com/skalesapp/wordpress

Built with ❤️ in Vienna by Mario Simic. 🦎