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AI · September 4, 2026

Dertet Harness

Chat with any AI, plus an agent that codes on your PC

What it does

Dertet Harness is a free, open-source AI workspace for Windows (plus Android/iOS chat clients). Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, or run a local model via Ollama/LM Studio. The built-in agent isn't just a chatbot: it edits code, runs commands, browses the web in its own tab, can control your screen, and edits video with ffmpeg. Slash commands, persistent memory, 9 languages. No subscription.

Multi-provider AI chat app (Windows, Android, iOS) with Dertet Code — a real coding/PC agent, not just a chatbot. Bring your own API keys. - dertet-dev/dertet-harness

One AI chat app for every provider, plus a real coding agent that actually does the work. Windows · Android · iOS — your own API keys, your own models, your own data. I got tired of juggling five different AI apps and browser tabs depending on which model I wanted to use that day — one for Claude, one for GPT, one for whatever's cheap on OpenRouter that week. So I built the thing I actually wanted: a single chat client that talks to basically any provider with your own API key, and on desktop, a proper coding agent ( Dertet Code ) that can read and edit files, run shell commands, browse the web, and — if you let it — control the mouse and keyboard, instead of just answering questions in a…from github.com

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