skales
by skalesapp
Personal AI agent harness for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android & iOS. New: Skales Scout, lasting AI agents that keep working on your desk, each optionally in its own virtual machine. Chat, coding (Skales Code), Flow, automations, computer use, browser, voice, MCP, local LLMs (Ollama). BYOK, 26 providers. No Docker, no terminal.
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Added 3/20/2026
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Installation
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/skalesapp/skalesGetting Started
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Security ReportWarning
Last scanned: 5/3/2026
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The private AI that lives on your computer and does real work, not just chat.
In 30 seconds
An AI agent that runs on your own computer, with access to your files, browser, calendar and email, and does multi-step work on its own. It installs like any normal app, it runs on your machine instead of someone's cloud, and it is built to be usable by people who are not developers. Nothing to start: Skales IQ is a free built-in trial that needs no API key, and after that you bring your own key from 15+ providers or run fully offline and pay nobody.
- 🐡 Give it a scout (Beta). A lasting agent with its own thread, memory and rhythm, optionally in its own virtual machine, that keeps rounds, brings suggestions and asks before anything risky.
- 🎯 Hand it a goal and close the lid.
/goal build me a trading botruns in the background across many steps and picks up where it left off. - 💻 Point it at a folder and let it code.
/codebinds a folder to any chat, with inline diffs and one-click undo. - 📱 Reach it from your phone. Pair via QR and your phone drives this desktop's full tool set, or run the phone standalone.
⬇ Download · 📖 Docs · 🎬 Demo · 📝 Changelog · 💬 Community
- Demo
- ⚡ Why Skales?
- 🐡 Skales Scout (Beta)
- 🚪 The eleven places Skales lives
- 🤖 What you can ask it to do
- 🛡️ Privacy
- 🧠 Providers and integrations
- 📦 Installation
- 🏗️ Architecture
- 🤝 Community
- 📜 License
Demo
⚡ Why Skales?
Skales is an AI agent that lives on your desktop. Not in a browser tab, not behind a restrictive API, not in a complex Docker container. It sits on your machine, has access to your files, your browser, your calendar, your email, and it does real work.
| Typical AI Agents | Skales 🦎 | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Docker, Terminal, Python CLI | Download EXE/DMG/AppImage, double-click |
| OS Support | Linux / Docker required | Windows + macOS + Linux native |
| Time to first task | Hours to days | 30 seconds |
| Privacy | Cloud only | Local-first, BYOK, offline capable |
| Updates | Manual Git pull and rebuild | One-click auto-updater |
| Security | Unsigned scripts | Apple Developer ID signed (Windows signing coming) |
| Emoji | Platform-dependent | Consistent Noto emojis + animated brand emojis |
| Migration | Start from scratch | Import from ChatGPT, Claude, OpenClaw, Hermes |
A 6-year-old built a game with it. A grandmother approved the setup.
🐡 Skales Scout (Beta): a helper that keeps working while you do something else
A scout is a lasting agent that lives on your computer with its own thread, memory and rhythm. It has a name, a role and a personality, stays in one thread for months without losing track, and remembers what it learned.
- Its own small computer. On a Mac, on Windows and on Linux a scout can get a virtual machine that reaches the internet but never your home network. You watch it work live, take over when you want, and its results come back as files you can open.
- A day of its own. Without being asked it keeps rounds, a standup and an evening summary, splits goals over several days into parts, and brings suggestions you answer with Go or Wait.
- A team when the job is bigger. A lead scout shares work with its sub-scouts and short-lived helpers. Each scout can have its own model and a daily budget, the cost of every run is in view, and a fallback model is never used in silence.
- You decide how far it goes. Approvals say how far your yes reaches. Sites, purchases, the apps you connected and a mailbox of its own are allowed per scout, and sign-ins stored once in Skales Vault are handed out entry by entry.
- On your phone too. The same Scout page, questions, approvals and settings, with a scout that can live on the phone alone when there is no computer.
Automations sit right beside it: switch a chat to the Automation mode and Skales build
Frequently Asked Questions
What is skales?
skales is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by skalesapp. Personal AI agent harness for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android & iOS. New: Skales Scout, lasting AI agents that keep working on your desk, each optionally in its own virtual machine. Chat, coding (Skales Code), Flow, automations, computer use, browser, voice, MCP, local LLMs (Ollama). BYOK, 26 providers. No Docker, no terminal. It has 2,222 GitHub stars.
Is skales safe to use?
skales returned warnings in SkillsLLM's automated security scan. It has no critical vulnerabilities, but review the flagged issues in the Security Report section before adding it to your workflow.
How do I install skales?
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/skalesapp/skales" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
Are there alternatives to skales?
Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh skales against similar tools.
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