An agent that outlasts
every subscription.
An open-source agent that lives on your Mac and learns you. It chats, executes, browses, and schedules — and keeps everything it learns on your disk, not someone else’s cloud. It never resets. It compounds.
macOS app
Native download coming September 2026. Apple Silicon, universal binary.
iOS companion
Pairs to your Mac hub. Ships with the September release.
v1.31
public release · September
30+
model providers, incl. local
100%
of memory stays on your disk
0
required subscriptions
The operating model · four layers
Act
Your machine
Chat, a real terminal, and a native browser in one window — executing locally, with your keys.
→Remember
Your Brain
Everything it learns lands in Spectral memory on your disk — searchable, permanent, yours.
→Automate
Your time
Learned skills and scheduled recipes that run while you sleep and present findings, not logs.
→Share
Your team
Personal agents federated into one sovereign project Brain — shared context, no custodian.
What permagent is
One agent. Yours. Permanent.
Every cloud AI quietly becomes a diary of your life — chats, files, decisions, accumulating on someone else’s servers.
We think that’s backwards. Permagent is one agent on your machine, with your keys, on any model — and every byte it learns about you stays in your custody.
The code is open source. The data format is yours. If we disappeared tomorrow, your agent — and everything it knows — keeps working.
Every guarantee, itemizedA 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.
The modules
The whole system,
in thirty seconds.
Not a teaser list. “Shipped” means built and working in v1.31 — the app everyone gets in September.
Chat
Every conversation lands in Spectral. Your agent on Monday remembers what it learned on Friday.
- Talk, don't just type — a full voice loop: local Whisper in, TTS out
- Barge-in: interrupt your agent mid-sentence
- Pick the voice it answers in
- Pop chat into its own window, beside your work
Terminal + Browser
A real PTY and a native webview beside the chat. The agent executes, browses, and reports in one window.
Skills
Do something twice and Permagent proposes a reusable skill — yours to keep, edit, and version.
Models
30+ providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex — plus fully local inference. No middleman markup.
Brain
Browse what your agent knows: a live 3D memory graph and list view with entity filters and search, over the on-device knowledge graph.
Automations
Recipes run overnight as full agent sessions. Cron presets, a scheduled-job list with next-run times, and a run roster — live in the Automate tab.
iPhone companion
Native iOS control screens — watch agents work, run automations, chat, dictate notes. Pairs to your Mac hub; the Brain stays home.
Inside the app
Not a chat wrapper.
An operating environment.
The Workbench
In v1.31Chat. 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
ShippedIt never forgets.
Every conversation and decision lands in Spectral memory on your disk — and you can browse it live in the Brain view: a 3D memory graph and list with entity filters and search.
Automate · Recipes
ShippedIt works while you sleep.
Schedule workspace cleanup, storage insights, project health checks. The Automate tab ships cron presets, a scheduled-job list with next-run times, and a run roster.
The Lab · World View
Shipped · polish ongoingWatch 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. Live in the app; visual polish is ongoing.
The companion · iOS
ShippedYour agent in your pocket.
Your Brain stays home.
A native iOS companion that pairs to your Mac hub over your private network. It’s a remote, not a second home: the Brain, the agents, and inference stay on your Mac — the phone drives them. One Brain, every paired device.
Agents at work
Watch what your agents are doing on the hub, live from the phone.
Automations
See and run your scheduled recipes from anywhere on your network.
Chat, inbox & goals
Full chat with your agent, plus inbox and goals views — native SwiftUI.
Dictate a note
Speak; it lands as a project note with to-dos captured automatically.
Straight talk: the companion is a paired remote for your Mac hub, not a standalone Permagent for iOS. It’s not on the App Store yet — companion access arrives with the September release; the waitlist covers both.
Spectral · the federated brain
One brain per agent today.
One brain per team tomorrow.
Spectral is Permagent’s open-source memory engine, designed for federation from the first commit. The end state: many Permagents feeding one shared brain — a startup’s collective context, 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, in place
Ed25519 brain identity, per-fact provenance, and four visibility scopes — Private / Team / Org / Public — ship in the Spectral engine. The app writes Private today; scope controls, author stamping, and sync land with team sync.
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 isn’t built yet. Its primitives ship in the engine — identity, provenance, and visibility scopes — but the app writes everything Private today. Scope controls, author stamping, and member sync are the team-sync build.
For teams & projects
Engine-ready · team sync nextMany agents. One shared Brain.
No custodian.
Cloud platforms answer the team question one way: put the org’s knowledge in our cloud. Permagent inverts it — everyone keeps a personal agent that learns them, federated into shared project memory no vendor holds. And working together is free.
No central custodian
A project gets one compounding Brain — decisions, docs, people, state — held by no vendor. Sync is designed end-to-end encrypted and relay-blind.
Many agents, one shared context
Each person keeps an agent that learns them, federated into shared project memory — not one shared workforce in someone's cloud.
Scoped and provenanced
Member-controlled visibility — private, team, org, public. You govern what your agent shares up; every shared fact carries its contributor.
Outlasts the team — and us
Project Brains are owned by the project, in open formats, forever. The “keeps working if the company disappears” promise, extended to groups.
Straight talk: the engine ships the primitives — deterministic recall, the knowledge graph, visibility scopes, per-fact provenance. Scope controls, author stamping, and multi-member sync are the next build, not live today.
The full team storyThe 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 model. Four Mesh members pooling Apple Silicon can. Members contribute GPU time and get access to models no single machine could hold — no per-token bill, no cloud middleman reading your data.
Identity comes from Chitin ID — one agent, one identity. 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 planShipping in the open
The vision is long.
The releases are regular.
Every claim on this site is labeled shipped, engine-ready, or designed — and each build is logged as it lands. No vaporware sold as features.
v1.31
ships September
Team sync
next build
Knowledge Mesh
Q4 2026 beta
The Mesh
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.