Free. Local. Yours.

Every CLI forgets.Automater doesn’t.

Your AI CLIs lose their sessions, stall without telling you, and burn quota you cannot see. Automater Lite catches all three, free, on your machine.

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Windows, macOS on Apple silicon, and Linux. No account.

claude

Usage: claude [options] [command] [prompt]

Claude Code - starts an interactive session by default, use -p/-
non-interactive output

Arguments:
  prompt                                Your prompt

Options:
  --add-dir <directories...>            Additional directories t

grok

Grok Build TUI

Usage: grok [OPTIONS] [PROMPT] [COMMAND]

Arguments:
  [PROMPT]
          Initial prompt for the interactive session, e.g. `grok

Options:
      --agent <NAME>

kimi

Usage: kimi [options] [command]

The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents

Options:
  -V, --version                 output the version number
  -S, --session [id]            Resume a session. With ID: resum
                                interactively pick.
  -c, --continue                Continue the previous session fo
                                false)

qwen

Usage: qwen [options] [command]

Qwen Code - Launch an interactive CLI, use -p/-
-prompt for non-interactive mode

Commands:
  qwen auth                  Configure authentication (removed)
  qwen channel <command>     Manage messaging channels (Telegram
  qwen extensions <command>  Manage Qwen Code extensions.
  qwen hooks                 Manage Qwen Code hooks (use /hooks

muse

muse — interactive terminal coding agent

If no subcommand is given, options run the interactive TUI; pass
a session, or use a command below.

Usage: muse [OPTIONS] [PROMPT]
       muse [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  resume           Resume a previous session (--last or <session

The problem

You run more than one coding agent now. Each keeps its own transcript, in its own format, in its own corner of your disk. No search across them. Every vendor meters your tokens somewhere else. Agents finish in background terminals and wait, politely, forever. You find out at standup.

Automater Lite keeps the sessions, flags the ones waiting on you, and counts what they cost.

Install once. Never lose an agent again.

01
Install. A signed installer, no account, and your transcripts stay on your disk.
02
It reads the CLIs you already run. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Cursor and 38 more formats land in one local library you can search across.
03
It flags the moment one needs you. Needs You is the amber flag for an agent waiting on your answer or your approval. You come back exactly when it matters.

Windows

The same panel on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Free in Lite

Free is the product, not a trial.

These Home cards ship free forever, with no account and no trial clock. Pro is further down the page.

Grok Bots

Grok Bot conversations land in the same local library as your CLI sessions.

Grok Bot conversations imported into the local session library.
Searchable beside every CLI transcript, not in a separate app.
Leads the Home deck; ships collapsed until you open it.

Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.

Usage

Token use and quota headroom for nine providers on one screen.

Nine providers probed for quota headroom.
Reads unknown, never zero, when a probe fails.
Leaderboard publishing is free and opt-in.

Ships with Lite. Pro adds the in-app rank card.

Live activity

Who is working, who is waiting, and the amber flag when an agent blocks on you.

Amber the moment an agent blocks on you.
Who is working and who is waiting, live.
Approval visibility never goes behind the paywall.

Ships with Lite and is never paywalled.

Recent sessions

Every CLI transcript on this machine, in one searchable local library.

45 session formats, from Claude Code to Aider.
Full-text search across every vendor at once.
One-click resume on the 11 CLIs that support it.

Ships with Lite. Pro adds inline replies to a running session.

Operator

The telephony card: place and take calls without leaving the panel.

Place and take calls from the Home deck.
Off on first run; enable it once from the customize panel.

Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.

Voice activity

Press the hotkey and speak: dictation lands in whatever window has focus.

Ctrl Alt Space, your global hotkey.
Parakeet speech-to-text runs on your own hardware.
Kokoro reads agent status back in a local voice.

Ships with Lite. Pro adds cloud voice when the machine is busy.

Detected AI apps

Which AI apps are installed and which are running right now.

Live presence and status for every detected AI app.
Installed versus running, at a glance.
Closes the Home deck; ships collapsed until you open it.

Ships with Lite. Pro adds live CPU, memory and I/O hog scores.

Grok Bot

Session import

45 session formats in all. These are the ones you have heard of.

Coming to Automater ProPro

Take back your life.Tell Auto. It routes.

One chat box in the tray. Auto sends your request to the first engine in your priority order that is up and under quota, so you stop picking models and hopping apps.

Your order, not a guess.: Claude, Codex, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Antigravity, Z.ai and Muse, in the order you set.
Quota-aware.: An engine at 90 percent of its quota is benched until it recovers.
Pin when you mean it.: Name an engine in the message, or pin one in the card, and Auto steps aside.

Automater Pro · $50/year

Lite watches. Pro operates.

Everything in Lite, plus the controls: chat with the engine you pick, run sessions, drive this machine, see every machine.

Operate

Act from the tray: chat, start and steer sessions, and let agents drive.

Pro
Desktop AI
Chat in the tray with the engine you pick, using screen context and voice.
- Pick the engine yourself from the card.
- Screen context and voice input in the conversation.
Free keeps Local dictation, voice playback and the session library.

See every machine

Every machine, every integration, every resource hog, on one screen.

Pro
Live Visualizer
Watch your agents move across a live map of the repo, down to the files being edited.
- Dependencies, progress and blocked work on one map.
Free keeps Live activity, Needs You, approvals and the session library.

Tools in the tray

Things you would otherwise alt-tab for, docked in the panel.

Pro
Files
A repo and file browser docked in the tray.
- One less window to alt-tab to.
Free keeps The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
Pro
Terminal
Run local and WSL shells from the Home deck.
- A shell where the agents already are.
Free keeps Your own terminal, the session library and the meters.
Pro
Usage - Rank
Your rank, your activity insights and your profile, inside the app.
- Compare your usage rank and explore the top builders.
Free keeps Usage meters, local activity, and publishing to the public board.
Pro
AI News
Ranked AI news plus incident and release alerts for the stack you run.
- Labs, research and industry headlines, ranked by importance.
- Alerts for the providers and CLIs detected here.
Free keeps The five latest headlines and every Automater Intel article.
Pro
Browser
Open a page or a markdown file without leaving the panel.
- Docs beside the agents, not behind them.
Free keeps The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
Pro
Camera
A virtual camera for your meeting app: loop a few seconds of you paying attention, put on a blazer, or go cartoon.
- Shows up in the meeting app as Automater Camera, on Windows 11.
- Step back in with one hotkey, or automatically when you talk.
- Everything runs on this PC.
Free keeps Your real webcam, local dictation and the session library.

Needs You is never paywalled.

Needs You and approval visibility always remain available without Pro. Stopping, cancelling and revoking stay free too.

Upgrade to Pro Download Lite free

The Home deck

Every card in the tray.

Free cards, then Pro. This is the Home deck Lite actually draws — not a feature list.

Free1 / 15

Grok Bots

Grok Bot conversations land in the same local library as your CLI sessions.

One library for bot threads and agent runs.

Stays free Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.

Open this card

See every card

Trust

Built like it handles your work.

Four facts about how Lite ships. Each one is checkable.

On your disk: The session library lives on your machine. No cloud copy, and nothing leaves unless you opt in.
Signed and verified: Installers are signed and every update is verified before it installs. On Windows that is Authenticode plus minisign.
Installs offline: On Windows, WebView2 ships inside the installer, so there are no runtime downloads mid-install.
Opt-in only: The leaderboard publishes nothing until you turn it on. Same for anything else that leaves the machine.

Pricing

Start free.Go Pro when you’re ready.

Lite is free and stays free. Pro adds the controls: chat, computer control, managed sessions, fleet, built-in tools and cloud voice.

Automater Lite

Free

For anyone running AI CLIs.

Download Lite free

Free forever. No account, no card.

45 formats in one searchable library, resume where supported
Usage and quota meters across 9 providers
Needs You flags and approval visibility, always free
Local dictation into any window, spoken status back
Home cards you order, collapse, pin and detach
Signed installer, offline install, verified updates

Automater Pro

See pricing

For the developer who steps in.

Upgrade to Pro

Everything in Lite, plus:

Chat in the tray with the engine you pick
Start, steer, interrupt and stop sessions

See all Pro features

Automater Desktop · Beta

For people who want a workspace, not a tray.

Download Desktop for Windows About Automater Desktop

In beta. Windows today; macOS prerelease; Linux not yet.

Session and project explorers
Built-in browser and live topology
Terminals and scheduled agent tasks
Lite becomes its tray when you run both

Prices in USD. Taxes and availability are confirmed at checkout.

FAQ

Straight answersto the questions that come up.

Is Automater Lite free?

Yes. Downloading and running Lite costs nothing and needs no sign-up. The archive and its search, the usage meters, the Needs You flags and local voice are all free. Automater Pro is a separate $50/year upgrade that adds to Lite; it never removes anything Lite already does.

What does Pro add, and what happens to my archive if I stop paying?

Pro adds the parts that act: chat and computer control from the tray, managed sessions and inline replies, Fleet and Integration Health, built-in tools and pop-out mini-apps, and metered cloud voice. Your archive is a local file. It stays on your disk, searchable, whether or not you pay. Needs You and approval visibility are never gated.

Where does my data live?

On your machine. Lite reads each CLI’s own session files and keeps the normalized archive locally. Nothing leaves your disk unless you opt in: publishing to the public leaderboard, or routing speech through Pro cloud voice. Vault redaction scrubs a secret across every stored transcript.

Which CLIs and apps does it read?

45 session formats today, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen, Z.ai, OpenCode, Cursor, VS Code, Copilot and Aider. Lite finds them where they already write, with nothing to configure. Eleven of those also support one-click resume back into their own CLI.

Which operating systems?

Windows x64, macOS on Apple silicon, and Linux x86_64 as an AppImage or a .deb. There is no Intel Mac build yet, and no arm64 build for Windows or Linux. The downloads page shows only what is published right now.

How do updates work?

Every build ships as a signed installer, and update payloads are minisign-verified before they install. On Windows the signature is Authenticode and the WebView2 runtime is embedded, so the first install needs no network. You can switch auto-update off and stay on the build you have.

Do I need Automater Desktop?

No. Lite is complete on its own. Automater Desktop is a separate app, in beta, for people who want to run agents in a full workspace: Windows is a signed download today, macOS is a prerelease, and Linux is not built yet. If you run both, Lite becomes Desktop’s tray.

Why did you build this?

I run about ten assistants at once — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, Qwen and a few more — across one Windows machine and the WSL box inside it. That is a good problem to have, right up until you cannot see it.

The losses were always the same three: sessions buried in a different folder for every tool, an agent parked on a permission prompt for an hour, and no single meter.

So I built the tray app I wanted. It archives every session on your own disk, flags the moment an agent needs you, and stays free, because the archive belongs to the person who made it. Pro pays for the parts that act on it, and for the cloud. If it misses something you do every day, write to me.

“AI, stay away. Please go hide in my tray.”

Russell WinslowFounder, Automater · New York

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Free in Lite · Inside the tray

The tray panel: Needs You flags, usage meters, live activity, recent sessions and detected apps on one screen.

Put your agents in the tray.

Sessions kept, stalls flagged, tokens metered. Free forever, on your machine, no account.

Download Lite free Upgrade to Pro

Every CLI forgets.Automater doesn’t.

Install once. Never lose an agent again.

Free is the product, not a trial.

Grok Bot conversations land in the same local library as your CLI sessions.

Token use and quota headroom for nine providers on one screen.

Who is working, who is waiting, and the amber flag when an agent blocks on you.

Every CLI transcript on this machine, in one searchable local library.

The telephony card: place and take calls without leaving the panel.

Press the hotkey and speak: dictation lands in whatever window has focus.

Which AI apps are installed and which are running right now.

Works with the CLIs you already run.

Claude Code

Codex

Gemini

Grok

Kimi

Qwen Code

Z.ai GLM

Pi

OpenCode

Muse Code

Antigravity

Cursor

VS Code

Copilot

Windsurf

Warp

Aider

MiniMax

DeepSeek

Grok Bot

Take back your life.Tell Auto. It routes.

Lite watches. Pro operates.

Operate

Desktop AI

See every machine

Live Visualizer

Tools in the tray

Files

Terminal

Usage - Rank

AI News

Browser

Camera

Needs You is never paywalled.

Every card in the tray.

Grok Bots

Built like it handles your work.

Start free.Go Pro when you’re ready.

Free

See pricing

Straight answersto the questions that come up.

A little intel goes a long way.

What Is an Agent Harness? The 2026 Field Map of AI Coding Harnesses

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The Best Agentic AI Tools in 2026, Tested by Daily-Driver Standards

Put your agents in the tray.