The app

Your agent.
In the dock.
Permanent.

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.

Read the build log

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Ships Q3 2026

Permagent
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What it does

It runs. It learns. It remembers.

01

Runs locally

Your agent executes on your machine. No cloud middleman. No roundtrips that someone else can see or charge for.

02

Learns over time

Every task you run teaches the agent something. Spectral memory stores it. It doesn’t reset between sessions. It compounds.

03

Saves skills automatically

Repeated work becomes a skill. Skills become a library. The library is yours — local, portable, yours.

Spectral memory

Memory built to last decades.

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

Local by default.
Local by design.

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.

Export any time

one command

Skills and memory export to plain files. If you ever want to leave, you walk out with everything.

Bring your own keys

No middleman. No second copy of your data.

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

Shipping in the open.

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.

Shipped

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)

In progress

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)

Planned

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

Free for individuals.

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.

Get the first build.

Waitlist order determines early-access order.