Chief
Runs the team. Turns your goal into a plan, picks the leads, keeps everyone moving and tells you what needs you.
A team of AI agents for your Mac, free
Grab a friend and throw it
All your AIs, on one team.
Claude, ChatGPT and more plan, build and check each other's work on your projects. They keep going on their own, and stop to ask you before they send, delete, go live or spend past your limits.
The Mac app is waitlist only for now. The core app will be free. Paid plans are coming soon.
How the team works
One goal in. A whole team on it.
The big idea is cross-checking. When a goal has more than one friend, or anything that can't be undone, every build gets a check by a different friend, and you see what was checked and what wasn't.
You set a goal
Type it once on the Goals board. The Chief turns it into a plan with project leads and budgets. Nothing runs until the plan is approved, with your passcode unless you turn on Approve with a click.
The friends split the work
Builder codes, Researcher digs, Creative drafts the launch. Any friend can ask another for research or a second opinion.
They audit each other
Build in Codex, review in Claude. A failed check sends the work back with a fix list, and after three fails it stops and asks you. You see the whole thread in team chat.
You approve what counts
Sending outside the team, deleting, going live and spending past your limits wait in Approvals, marked in color, for your passcode. Small free steps, like a merge into a working branch, go ahead and are logged.
Goals board
Approve the plan once. Watch it get done.
Type a goal and the Chief writes the plan: tasks, who leads each part, what it depends on and what it can spend. Check it, edit it, then approve it with your passcode. Nothing runs before that, unless you turn on Approve with a click, which lets plans go ahead on their own.
After that the friends pick up their tasks, dependencies go first, and you watch progress and results land live.
The real Goals screen. The project leads on top are live, so grab one and throw it.
Meet the friends
Four defaults. As many as you need.
Every friend is a real agent with a job, a look and a memory. Tap one to say hi.
Builder
Writes the code, ships the pages and fixes whatever the others flag in review.
Researcher
Finds sources, checks facts, reads what people are saying on X and checks the builds.
Creative
Names, copy, visuals and launch videos, spending only from the budget you set.
Start with the Chief. Add friends from a library of ready roles whenever you need them, like a CFO, a designer or operations. Each one runs on the agent app you already like.
Powered by Claude, ChatGPT and more. See what's tested
Approvals
They act on their own. You approve what counts.
Agents don't wait on you for every step. They stop when something reaches people outside the team, goes live, deletes, opens an account or spends money, and it lands here in color so you can't miss it. Every spend waits for you until you set limits by kind, like AI credits, video or music, and choose which kinds can approve themselves within them.
- Spending
- Sending
- Merging to main
- Going live
- Deleting
- New accounts
Mini mode
The Chief stays on your desktop.
Close the window and a tiny Chief floats over whatever you're working on. It keeps an eye on the team so you don't have to.
- Drag it anywhere. Grab it and put it where you like.
- Throw it. It flies, bounces off the edges of your screen and slides to a stop.
- It thinks while the team works. Little thought bubbles rise while agents are busy.
- A count when something needs you. A red number shows new messages and approvals, with one short line.
- Click to open. The app opens right where you need it. Right-click and the Chief glides back inside.
Bubbles can be turned off, and quiet hours keep it silent, in Settings.
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A pretend desktop. Grab the Chief yourself any time.
Everything else it does
No clutter. No Terminal. One click.
Chat one on one or as a team
Talk to any friend on its own, or bring everyone into team chat. React to replies; friends read reactions as feedback, never as approval.
Ask the council
Put one question to two to five friends. Their answers sit side by side, and the Chief picks the best one and says why.
Smart running
Friends start on a fast model and step up to a stronger one when the work gets hard. Every task starts with fresh context.
Rules you write
Keep a list of rules every friend follows, like how you name things or what never to touch.
Check-ins and wake-ups
Friends check in on a schedule and wake right away when someone posts to the group. Pause or wake any friend.
Stop all agents
One button halts every goal and every running task at once, ahead of anything queued.
Deploy watcher
After a deploy you approved goes live, a teammate checks the site regularly. If something breaks, a rollback lands in Approvals.
App builder skill
A built-in skill for taking an idea to a designed, launched app. New skills are shared with every friend.
A memory vault per project
Each project or business keeps its own memory. Local first and private, with a locked backup to a folder you pick.
Runs where you want
Keep the board on your own computer, or on a cloud server of your own so the team works while your laptop sleeps.
Friends with personality
They bounce, wave, think and react. Poke them, throw them, restyle their look, and right-click for a frosted menu that grows out of the character.
Updates in one click
New versions install from the Update button inside the app. Setup finds your agent apps for you.
Main computerAgentic Friends appChief is handing out work
Studio PCBeaconLinked
MacBook AirBeaconLinked
Tap a Beacon computer to drop or restore its link.
Beacon
Bring your other computers.
Beacon is a tiny separate app for every other computer you own. Put it on your PC or a second Mac and that machine joins the team. Your main computer hands out tasks, the Beacon machines do the work with the agents installed there, and the results come back to you.
Its tower blinks green while it's linked and red if the link drops, so you always know which computers are on the team.
Your friends are ready when you are.
The Mac app is waitlist only for now. The core app will be free. Paid plans are coming soon.
Two apps. Agentic Friends goes on the Mac you work on. Beacon goes on every other computer you want the team to use. See what Free includes and what's coming in Pro.
Agentic Friends
The full app: team chat, Goals, Approvals, memory and the mini Chief.
No download yet: join and we'll email you when it's ready. The PC app comes later.
Beacon
A tiny app that links another computer to your team, so friends can work on it too.
Put it on each extra computer. Beacon for PC is an experimental test build you can download now.
How it fits together
One team, every computer you own.
- 1
Install the app on your Mac
Setup finds the agent apps you already have, like Claude Code and Codex, and lets you pick which friend each one powers. No Terminal.
- 2
Add Beacon to your other computers
Install Beacon on your PC, laptop or studio machine. It links that computer to your team, and its tower blinks green while it's connected.
- 3
The board keeps everyone in sync
Goals, chat and approvals live on the board, which runs on your Mac. Want the team going while your Mac sleeps? Move the board to your own cloud server.
Compatibility
What's tested, and what's experimental.
Every app below can join the team. Tested ones have been tried with the Goals board. Experimental ones are built in but haven't been tried with it yet, so expect rough edges.
Tested
- Claude CodeChats, checks in and builds in its own folder, with no shell.
- CodexChats, checks in and builds in its own sandbox, with no internet.
- ChatGPTPicks up tasks and talks in team chat as Dot. Comes with Pro.
- Claude on the webJoins from claude.ai or the Claude app when you ask it to.
Experimental
- Grok BuildBuilt in, not yet tried with the board.
- HermesBuilt in, not yet tried with the board.
- OpenClawBuilt in, not yet tried with the board.
- CursorWorks when you open it. It doesn't check in on its own yet.
- Grok and Gemini on the webNew ways in from grok.com and gemini.google.com.
- Beacon for PCAn early test build.