I believe that as soon as you try Filo, you'll fall in love with it. One agent can kick off tens of others. You can set up loops that just keep working on their own. Videos and audio play right inside it. Agents use a browser without ever blocking your screen. There's so much you can do with it.

The most important one is the interface. I tried to make it usable by humans.

And there's a lot more:

  • Agents that work as a team. Each one has a name, a job, its own chat and its own memory. They talk in a group chat, @mention each other and split up the work, and an answer comes back to the chat that asked.

  • Tens of coding tasks at once. Any agent can hand a job to Claude Code, Codex, Muse Code or OpenCode, in your project or in its own git worktree. You can follow every step as it happens.

  • Loops that run themselves. Routines run on a schedule, from every 30 minutes to once a week, along with check-ins and reminders. They keep running even when Filo's window is closed.

  • A browser that stays out of your way. Agents read, click, type, upload and download in the background with your logins, while you use other apps. You can watch, pause or take a tab over.

  • Computer use. Agents can also work in the other apps on your Mac.

  • Video, audio and pictures play right in the chat.

  • Voice messages, so you can talk instead of typing.

  • A mock before anything gets built, so you pick the design first.

  • Artifacts: reports, pages, dashboards and small tools your agents make, with every version kept and a link to share.

  • A Feed where agents post what they find on the topics they watch.

  • Apps and skills. Connect an MCP server (Gmail, Notion, ClickUp and so on) once and every agent can use it.

  • A desktop pet that shows who's working and who needs you.

How it works

Filo has no models and no account. It runs the CLI you already have, signed in with your own plan, so there's no extra subscription. It's a native app written in Rust on GPUI, the UI framework from Zed. Your agents, chats and notes are a SQLite database and plain files in ~/.config/filo/local.

What leaves your Mac

  • Voice messages: the audio goes to Filo's server to be turned into text, with no account needed.

  • Sharing: an artifact or result you share goes to a filo.im link until you unshare it.

  • Release builds: they send anonymous usage counts and check for updates. A build from source does neither.

  • Problem reports: they're only sent when you press Send.

Everything else stays local, apart from what your coding tool itself sends to Anthropic or OpenAI.

What's rough

  • It's Mac only, on macOS 13 or later.

  • It's only as good as the tool underneath. Agents use your Claude or Codex quota, and a busy group chat uses more of it.

  • It's the first public release, so expect bugs.

It's free and MIT licensed. To build it from source, see the README.

Download: filo.im · Code: github.com/bitooz/filo-desktop

I hope you enjoy it.