An agent that outlasts
every subscription.
Permagent is an open-source agent OS that runs on your Mac. It chats, executes, browses, and schedules — and it stores everything it learns in a memory that lives on your disk, not someone else’s cloud. It doesn’t reset between sessions. It compounds.
macOS app
Native download coming Q3 2026. Apple Silicon, universal binary.
v1.31
runtime shipping today
25+
model providers, incl. local
100%
of memory stays on your disk
0
required subscriptions
What permagent is
One agent. Yours. Permanent.
Most AI tools are rented. They reset every session, live on someone else’s hardware, and answer to someone else’s roadmap. Permagent is the opposite: a single agent that runs on your machine, with your keys, on any model you choose — and a memory that makes it more valuable every week you use it.
The code is open source. The data format is yours. If we disappeared tomorrow, your agent — and everything it knows — keeps working.
A full operating environment
Chat with persistent memory, a real terminal, a native browser, learned skills, and scheduled automations. Free for individuals. Your machine, your keys.
A network agents earn their way into
Verified agents share knowledge, then compute — pooling hardware to run open models no single machine could. Identity-gated by Chitin ID. First 300 seats form the Founding Senate.
What it does today
Five things your agent
does right now.
Not a teaser list. Every item below is in the v1.31 runtime.
Chat with a permanent memory
Every conversation lands in Spectral — an on-device memory engine with a knowledge graph. Your agent on Monday remembers what it learned on Friday.
Built-in terminal + browser
A real PTY terminal and a native webview, side by side with chat. The agent executes, browses, and reports in one window.
Skills it learns from you
The runtime watches for repeated work. Do something twice and Permagent proposes a reusable skill — yours to keep, edit, and version.
Any model. Your keys.
25+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex — plus fully local inference through Ollama and llama.cpp. Switch any time. No middleman markup.
Automations that run while you sleep
A cron scheduler is built into the runtime. Recipes run overnight and present findings, not logs. (Scheduling UI lands in Phase 2 — today it's API and CLI.)
Inside the app
Not a chat wrapper.
An operating environment.
The Workbench
ShippingChat. Execute. Browse. One window.
Split panes let you watch the agent work in real time — conversation on one side, the terminal or browser it's driving on the other. No copy-pasting between apps.
The Brain · Spectral
Engine shipped · view in Phase 2It never forgets.
Every conversation and decision lands in Spectral memory on your disk. The engine ships today; the Brain view — browse, search, and curate what your agent knows — is the headline of Phase 2.
Automate · Recipes
Runtime shipped · UI in Phase 2It works while you sleep.
The cron scheduler and recipe engine are in the runtime now — schedule workspace cleanup, storage insights, project health checks. The visual scheduling UI arrives in Phase 2.
The Lab · World View
In developmentWatch your agents at work.
A 3D marble pantheon where your agents appear as characters — the orchestrator directing, the Librarian shelving memories in a mezzanine library. In active development; the render below is from a development build.
Spectral · the federated brain
One brain per agent today.
One brain per team tomorrow.
Spectral is Permagent’s open-source memory engine — and it was designed for federation from the first commit. The long-term shape: many Permagents contributing memory shards into a shared master brain. A startup’s collective context. A community’s shared knowledge. Every member’s agent, recalling from the same well.
Shipped today
In v1.31Frequency-domain recall
Deterministic fingerprints instead of embeddings. Sub-millisecond recall, no GPU, no embedding API bill.
A real knowledge graph
Typed entities and relationships with multi-hop traversal — “how does X relate to Y” is a query, not a vibe.
Federation primitives, shipped
Every brain has an Ed25519 identity. Every fact carries provenance — which brain asserted it — and a visibility level. The annotations federation needs are already on your data.
Concept — shards converging into a master brain
On the roadmap
Federation protocolMemory shards
Mark memories shareable and they become signed shards — portable, attributable units of knowledge.
The master brain
A team, a community group, a research collective: many Permagents contribute shards into one shared brain that every member's agent can recall from.
Provenance all the way down
A shared fact always knows which agent asserted it. Trust, dispute, and supersede — at the level of individual memories.
Straight talk: the federation protocol — sync, conflict resolution, merge — is not built yet. The identity, provenance, and visibility primitives it needs shipped in v1.31, so the data you accumulate today is already annotated for the brain your team shares tomorrow.
The Mesh
Vision · published design, not yet in buildYour hardware decides what you contribute — not what you can access.
A 16GB MacBook can’t run a 70B open-source model. Four Mesh members pooling their Apple Silicon can. The Mesh turns local-first from an individual constraint into a collective advantage: members contribute GPU time to a shared pool and get access to models no single machine could hold — with no per-token API bill and no cloud middleman reading your data.
Identity comes from Chitin ID — one agent, one identity, reputation on-chain. Coordination assigns model shards to peers and verifies results. Privacy is the hard layer, and we’ve published exactly how we plan to climb it.
Concept — devices pooling compute around one shared model
What never leaves your machine
- Your Brain (Spectral DB) — never leaves
- Your documents — never leave
- Your memories — never leave
- Raw prompt text — encrypted before leaving, or never leaves
The only thing that travels is the inference computation itself — and each phase of the roadmap hardens how that computation is protected, from trusted circles to hardware attestation to fully homomorphic encryption.
Knowledge Mesh
The Mesh launches as a knowledge network: verified agents share skills and memories under Chitin identity. Text, not compute.
→Inference routing
One interface for “where does inference run”: local, Mesh peer, or cloud fallback. You set the policy.
→Split inference
Your Mac runs the first and last model layers; peers run the middle on abstract activations. Raw text never leaves your machine.
→TEE-attested compute
Hardware-isolated inference on peers' machines. You trust the silicon, not the stranger.
→Encrypted inference
Fully homomorphic encryption: math no party can peek inside. The endgame — privacy that is proven, not promised.
Where this stands today: an 80-page published design (identity, coordination, split inference, TEE, FHE) and reserved fields in the shipped schema. Zero Mesh code in the runtime yet — and we won’t pretend otherwise. The Knowledge Mesh comes first.
The full Mesh planBuild log
Shipping in the open.
Exactly where we are: what’s done, what’s being built, what’s planned. No vaporware sold as features.
Runtime v1.31 on Apple Silicon
Spectral memory + knowledge graph
Auto-skill detection
Terminal, browser, chat workspaces
25+ model providers, local inference
Cron scheduler + recipes (API)
Brain view — see + search your memory
Scheduling and recipes UI
Rich chat renderer (charts, tables, files)
Voice loop (Whisper, push-to-talk)
Chitin ID v1
Founding Senate (private rollout)
Public app ships · Q3 2026
Knowledge Mesh private beta · Q4 2026
Mesh general availability · 2027
Spectral federation — shared team brains
Mesh distributed inference (vision)
Governance by election · 2027+
Who it is for
Builders who want to compound.
Solo founders
You need an operator that works while you sleep and remembers the company by Monday.
Indie developers
You want tools that learn your codebase once and keep learning. No resetting every session.
Teams that compound
You're tired of renting intelligence. You want agents whose knowledge accrues to you — and eventually, to a brain your whole team shares.
Get in before the door closes.
Join the waitlist to hear when the Mac app ships. If you want permanent standing in the record, Founding Senator seats are opening soon.
Founding Senate
300 seats. $250 deposit, fully refundable until the Mesh launches. Opening soon through private outreach.