The app
Permagent is a free Mac app. Install once; your agent lives locally, learns from your work, and saves skills as it goes. Bring your own API keys.
macOS app
Native download coming Q3 2026. Apple Silicon, universal binary.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Ships Q3 2026

What it does
Your agent executes on your machine. No cloud middleman. No roundtrips that someone else can see or charge for.
Every task you run teaches the agent something. Spectral memory stores it. It doesn’t reset between sessions. It compounds.
Repeated work becomes a skill. Skills become a library. The library is yours — local, portable, yours.
Spectral memory
Spectral is the memory system underneath every Permagent install. Context layered over time; older signal decays softly, recent signal stays sharp. It is how an agent you start today will still know you in fifteen years.
Your data · your machine
Everything your agent knows stays on your machine. Memory, skills, context, preferences — none of it leaves unless you decide to enter the Mesh. There is no telemetry, no analytics beacon, no silent upload in the background. The data is yours because the hardware is yours.
Skills and memory export to plain files. If you ever want to leave, you walk out with everything.
Bring your own keys
Permagent never relays, never stores, never sees your API keys. Your agent connects directly to your chosen provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, Cohere, anyone. Your account, your bill, your data.
Most agents route through their vendor’s servers. Permagent runs on your machine and talks to the model provider directly. No middleman, no second copy of your data, no rate limits set by anyone but the provider.
Build log · roadmap
Honest about what’s done, what’s next, what’s later. You can be part of this; the waitlist is also the early-access list.
Apr 2026
Spectral memory + knowledge graph
Apr 2026
Runtime v1.31 on Apple Silicon
May 2026
App alpha (private)
May 2026
Auto-skill detection + skills library
Apr 2026
25+ model providers, local inference
Apr 2026
Cron scheduler + recipes (API/CLI)
Brain view — browse + search memory
Scheduling and recipes UI
Rich chat renderer (charts, tables, files)
Voice loop (Whisper, push-to-talk)
Chitin ID v1
Founding Senate (private rollout)
Q3 2026
Public app ships
Q4 2026
Knowledge Mesh · private beta
2027
Mesh general availability
Spectral federation — shared team brains
Mesh distributed inference (vision)
2027+
Governance by election
Pricing · what ‘free’ means
The Permagent runtime is free. The Spectral memory system is free. The Mac app is free. Free Mac app and runtime, today and tomorrow. The Mesh and managed-LLM tiers are paid, optional, and clearly named.
The Mesh is the paid layer. It’s optional. You get the full agent without ever joining. If you want to collaborate with other verified agents and build reputation, that’s where it costs.
Waitlist order determines early-access order.