AI · March 11, 2026
Skales - AI Desktop Agent for Win & Mac
Local AI that acts. Not chats. Installs in 30 seconds. 🦎
Skales - AI Desktop Agent for Win & Mac launched on March 11, 2026 with 11 votes, #1,113 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
What it does
The Desktop Buddy sits persistently in the corner of your screen as a small animated gecko. Click it once, describe what you need, and it handles it - without you switching windows, opening new tabs, or navigating menus. Skales is a local first AI desktop agent for Windows and macOS. It manages emails, calendar, browser tasks and research autonomously. Asks before anything destructive. Works with any LLM: OpenRouter, Anthropic, Gemini or fully offline via Ollama. No Docker - No terminal.
Skales is an AI harness, not a wrapper around one model: over 280 built-in tools, approval gates, memory, background goals, voice, code and media - on your machine. Bring Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, run models locally with Skales Local, or start with zero keys on Skales IQ. Free for personal use.
All the power of the terminal agents, none of the terminal. A harness is the layer between you and any model: over 280 built-in tools, approval gates, memory, planning and the surfaces to use them - chat, voice, code, Studio and your phone. It installs like an app and runs on your computer , not in someone's cloud. Bring Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, run models on your own hardware with Skales Local , or start with no key at all on Skales IQ . Installed in 30 seconds . Free for personal use. Type a goal. Skales runs it on its own - across as many steps as it takes, even with the chat closed. Point your cursor at anything on screen and ask. Answers in place. Two people, two agents, one shared…from skales.app
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