Frequently asked questions

A native desktop AI workspace that orchestrates a team of coding agents against your real project — a manager plans, workers build in parallel, and a critic reviews before anything reaches you. See How it works.

No. You bring your own models — API keys or the agent CLIs you already have. Koryphaios is the orchestration layer, not a reseller of inference.

50+ providers: API-key ones (OpenAI, Google direct API, Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, Anthropic, xAI, Groq, OpenRouter, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints) and subscription CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, Cursor, Devin, Cline, Antigravity). You can mix them in one picker. See Providers.

No — the backend runs locally and works on your files in place. The exceptions are the ones you choose: an API/CLI model necessarily sees the context you send it, and if you use model sharing your project is sent to the host running a shared CLI. Nothing else is uploaded.

The app itself runs locally, but the models don't — you need network access to reach a hosted provider. If you point Koryphaios at a local model (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp), you can work fully offline.

Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), and Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage). One note: the model-sharing sandbox can use kernel enforcement on Linux and macOS when the host supports it; on Windows it's a softer jail — details in The remote sandbox.

Sharing your own API keys is fine. Sharing a subscription (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT plans) is account-sharing that several providers' terms forbid and enforce. The app flags this per provider and defaults subscriptions off. See Share your models.

Every AI change is captured as a ghost commit, so you can rewind the workspace to any earlier state. Combined with the critic gate and per-tool permissions, mistakes are recoverable. YOLO mode removes the confirmations if you want speed over caution.

Same core idea (wikilinks, backlinks, a graph) but native to the workspace and — the real difference — readable and writable by your agents. It now covers the features people miss most: live Markdown preview, math (KaTeX) and Mermaid diagrams, a Dataview-style query language, aliases, ghost nodes, callouts, a plugin API, a spatial canvas/whiteboard, and full-text search that stays fast at thousands of notes (the graph renders on a GPU-friendly canvas with no node cap). The honest gaps: a mature third-party plugin ecosystem and a native mobile app. See Notes.

Not yet as a shipping native app. The desktop UI (including notes) is touch-friendly and responsive down to phone widths. A packaged iOS/Android build is on the roadmap — it needs its own device testing and store pipeline, so we'd rather ship it right than ship it untested.

The app checks for updates and can install them in place; a banner appears when one is available, and the changelog lists what changed each release.

The desktop app is free to download and run — you only pay your own model providers. Grab it from the download page.