Needs you
Know the moment an agent is waiting.
Permission prompts, questions and approvals stall silently in a terminal you are not looking at. Lite flags them in the tray, on every session, and tells you which app to switch to.
Automater Lite
Your AI agents,Sidekick to all your AIYour AI sessions,remembered.
One tray panel for every AI CLI and desktop app on your machine. Three jobs, all free:
- One searchable library of every session, kept on your own disk.
- A flag the moment an agent is waiting on you for an answer or an approval.
- One usage meter across 9 providers, so you see what is left before it runs out.
One tray panel for every AI CLI and desktop app on your machine. A searchable library of every session, a flag the moment an agent is waiting on you, and one usage meter across 9 providers. Free. Local. No signup required. Optional paid upgrades available.
Keep your AIs organized and in view.
Automater Lite pulls every AI CLI and desktop session on your machine into one searchable local library, and keeps an eye on every agent from your tray.
Signed installer · Installs offline · No account · Windows, macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux
Lite runs on your computer. Send yourself the link.
One email with the download link. Open it at your desk and you are running in about a minute.
No account needed.
The new Lite
One panel. Everything your agents & bots are doing.
Home, Voice, Usage, Search and PRO are one tab strip. Pinned to the desktopPin it and Lite keeps its own strip of screen, and your other windows make room instead of hiding behind it. On Windows., Auto-hide at the edgePark it off-screen. Point at the right edge and it slides in; move away and it slides back out., or use it as a As a plain windowTurn Always on top off and Lite is just another window: drag it anywhere, stack it with the rest, alt-tab back to it..
Before and after
Stop hunting through terminals and desktop apps.
Every AI tool keeps its history in its own window, folder and format. Lite watches all of them from one panel in your tray.
Without Lite
> make the hero responsive
Editing Hero.astro
Thinking
const total = items.reduce(
(sum, i) => sum + i.price, 0
);
$ codex "add rate limits"
Applying patch to routes/orders.ts
Done. 3 files changed.
Anthropic: 71% of plan
OpenAI: see dashboard
Gemini: sign in again
> fix the flaky payments test
Running tests
? Overwrite jest.config.ts (y/n)
With Lite
Needs youWhat changes on day one.
Without Lite: Five windows open. Which agent is waiting on you?
With Lite: The session that needs your answer is flagged.
Without Lite: That fix from Tuesday is in some session, somewhere.
With Lite: One search finds it, across all 41 apps and CLIs.
Without Lite: Usage lives in a dashboard per provider.
With Lite: Nine providers, side by side in your tray.
What Lite does
Every AI forgets.
Automater doesn't.
Your agents, your usage and your sessions, in one tray panel that is always a click away. These three are free, forever.
Usage
One meter across 9 providers.
See what is left on every plan before it runs out, with reset timers, a weekly history and a flag when one agent starts burning your quota.
Library
Every session, one search.
41 tools each write their history in their own folder and format. Lite indexes all 45 formats into one local library you can search in full text, and resume 11 of them in their own CLI with a click.
Compatibility
Works with 41 AI apps and CLIs. Check yours.
36 of the 41 are named here. Type to check yours.
41 apps and CLIs, 45 session formats, 9 providers metered, 11 one-click resumes.
Claude Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Codex
Audited August 18
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Resumes a past sessionUnknown
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Interactive chatUnknown
- Asks before actingUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
- Runs headlessUnknown
- Plugins and extensionsUnknown
Cursor
Audited August 18
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Resumes a past sessionUnknown
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Interactive chatUnknown
- Asks before actingUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
- Runs headlessUnknown
- Plugins and extensionsUnknown
Gemini
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Grok
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Git integrationPass
- Reads imagesPass
- Web searchPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Copilot
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Keeps session historyUnknown
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Asks before actingUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Transcripts on your diskUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
- Plugins and extensionsUnknown
Windsurf
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Aider
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Kimi
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Reads imagesPass
- Web searchPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Qwen Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Git integrationPass
- Reads imagesPass
- Web searchPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Z.ai GLM
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- MCP serversUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
OpenCode
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- MCP serversUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Antigravity
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Git integrationPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
VS Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Capability audit
- MCP serversUnknown
- Resumes a past sessionUnknown
- Keeps session historyUnknown
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Interactive chatUnknown
- Asks before actingUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Transcripts on your diskUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
- Runs headlessUnknown
- Plugins and extensionsUnknown
Warp
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Pi
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversFail
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingFail
- Sandboxed runsFail
- Reads imagesPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Git integrationUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
Muse Code
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- One-click resume, back into its own CLI
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- One-shot promptsPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Git integrationPass
- Reads imagesPass
- Web searchPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs headlessPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Opens from a linkUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
MiniMax
Audited August 21
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Resumes a past sessionFail
- Keeps session historyPass
- Interactive chatPass
- Reads imagesPass
- Web searchPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Runs in the cloudPass
- Opens from a linkFail
- Desktop notificationsPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Asks before actingUnknown
- Sandboxed runsUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs headlessUnknown
DeepSeek
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Kiro
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Kilo Code
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
OpenHands
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Amp
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Mistral Vibe
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
gptme
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
iFlow
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Poolside
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Shelley
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Posit Assistant
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
MiMoCode
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Claude Cowork
Audited August 19
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Capability audit
- MCP serversPass
- Keeps session historyPass
- Asks before actingPass
- Sandboxed runsPass
- Transcripts on your diskPass
- Opens from a linkPass
- Plugins and extensionsPass
- Resumes a past sessionUnknown
- One-shot promptsUnknown
- Interactive chatUnknown
- Git integrationUnknown
- Reads imagesUnknown
- Web searchUnknown
- Suggests the next promptUnknown
- Runs in the cloudUnknown
- Desktop notificationsUnknown
- Runs headlessUnknown
QwenPaw
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Codebuff
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Command Code
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
IcodeMate
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
Omnigent
No audit yet
In Lite
- Its sessions land in your local library
- and 5 more
Free forever. It reads the history you already have, from the first launch.
Missing yours? Tell usVoice · free in Lite
Say the prompt.
Lite types it.
Press your hotkey, speak, and the words land wherever your cursor is: Claude Code, a terminal, a browser. Transcription runs on your own hardware, and every take is saved.
Press your hotkey
Speak
It lands in Claude Code
Download LiteFree · no account · local by default
Try it in
The basics
What you get, free.
On your own hardware
Local mode never uploads your audio.
Any window that takes typing
Editors, terminals, chat boxes, forms.
Tap or hold
Any hotkey combo you like.
Every take kept
Copy any dictation again.
See it in the history
And it talks back
Hear when an agent needs you.
Claude Code can read its status and questions aloud through Lite, in a local voice, so you know without watching the terminal. Cloud voice, for when this PC is busy, is part of PRO.
“Your agent needs your input in ~/shop.”Spoken by Lite · local voice
How it works
Install it. It finds your sessions.
They stay on your machine.
No account and no setup wizard. The whole thing takes about a minute.
1
Install it
A signed installer for Windows, macOS (Apple silicon) and Linux. Authenticode on Windows, signed and notarized on macOS (Apple silicon). It installs offline and updates itself with minisign-verified payloads.
2
It finds the sessions your tools already save
Every AI CLI and desktop app writes its transcripts somewhere on your disk. Lite knows where 41 of them write, in 45 formats, and indexes those files on your machine. Session content stays on your disk.
3
One panel, four ways to work
Click the tray icon for the panel: search sessions, reopen one in its own CLI, see who is waiting, check usage.
From the tray
Click the tray icon and Lite comes up over whatever you’re doing. It stays put while you work; click the icon again and it’s gone.
Pinned to the desktop
Pin it and Lite keeps its own strip of screen, and your other windows make room instead of hiding behind it. On Windows.
Auto-hide at the edge
Park it off-screen. Point at the right edge and it slides in; move away and it slides back out.
As a plain window
Turn Always on top off and Lite is just another window: drag it anywhere, stack it with the rest, alt-tab back to it.
What stays on your machine, and what can leave it
Your machine
Session files
Right where 41 apps and CLIs already save them.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 38 more
Lite reads them
45 formats, indexed here
Your library
A local file. It stays on your disk and searchable, whether or not you ever pay.
Local voice is transcribed on this machine too. Lite needs no account.
Beyond your machine
- On by default
Anonymous usage statistics
On by default. Switch them off in Settings at any time.
- Off until you publish
Leaderboard
Nothing is published unless you choose to publish it.
- Off until you use it
PRO cloud voice
Opt-in. Local voice never uploads audio.
- No sign-up
- Install and go. No account, no card, no time limit.
- Signed installer
- Authenticode on Windows, signed and notarized on macOS (Apple silicon). Installs offline.
- Verified updates
- Every update is minisign-checked before it installs.
- Your update schedule
- Switch auto-update off and stay on the build you have.
Automater PRO
Lite watches.
PRO operates.
Everything in Lite stays free. PRO adds the parts that act: chat, control and tools, all from the same tray panel.
- Ask AutomaterChat in the tray with the engine you pick, using screen context and voice.
- Managed SessionsStart, steer, interrupt and stop agent sessions from the panel.
- Computer ControlLet agents drive the mouse, keyboard and apps, with your permission.
- Built-in toolsBETATerminal, repo and file browser, web browser and markdown viewer, inside Lite.
- FleetBETASee every machine's agents, status and KPIs in one view.
- Camera FXBETAA virtual camera for your meeting app: put on a blazer, change your shirt color, or go cartoon.
- Grok BotsAn enhanced Grok Bots card with roster and Latest views, included in PRO.
- Resource monitorSee each running AI app's live CPU, memory and I/O hog score, 0 to 100 over the last minute.
AUTOMATER PRO · YEARLY
Introductory offer
$50/ yearFor the developer who steps in. Everything in Lite, plus the controls. Renews until you cancel; your library stays yours either way.
Upgrade to PROPricing
AUTOMATER LITE FREE FOREVER$0/ forever
For anyone running AI CLIs. No account, no card, no time limit.
Download- 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
- Leaderboard card, public profile and README badges, opt-in
- Signed installer, offline install, verified updates
AUTOMATER PRO MOST POPULAR
Introductory offer
$50/ yearFor the developer who steps in. Everything in Lite, plus:
Upgrade to PRO- Ask Automater: chat in the tray with the engine you pick
- Managed sessions: start, steer, interrupt, stop, reply inline
- Computer Control, with your permission
- Built-in Terminal, Files, Browser and Camera FX (beta)
- Fleet view, Integration Health, Advanced Attention (beta)
- Pop-out mini-apps, AI News & alerts, cloud voice
Renews automatically until you cancel. Your library stays on your disk either way.
ENTERPRISECustom
For teams rolling Automater out across machines.
Talk to us- Everything in PRO, on every seat
- Volume licensing and one invoice
- Onboarding help and priority support from the builders
- Security review and procurement paperwork
- A say in the roadmap
FAQ
Questions people ask.
Is Automater Lite free?
Yes. Running Lite costs nothing and needs no sign-up. The library and its search, the usage meters, the Needs You flags and local voice are all free. PRO is a separate yearly upgrade that adds to Lite; it never removes anything Lite already does.
What does PRO add?
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.
What happens to my library if I stop paying?
Your library 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?
Session content stays on your machine: Lite reads each tool's own session files and keeps the normalized library locally. Anonymous usage statistics are on by default and can be switched off in Settings. Publishing to the leaderboard and PRO cloud voice are opt-in.
Which tools does it read?
45 session formats from 41 apps and CLIs: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Windsurf, Aider, Kimi, Qwen Code, Z.ai GLM, OpenCode, Antigravity, VS Code, Warp, Pi, Muse Code, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Kiro, Kilo Code, OpenHands, Amp, Mistral Vibe, gptme, iFlow, Poolside, Shelley, Posit Assistant, MiMoCode, Claude Cowork, QwenPaw, Codebuff, Command Code, IcodeMate, Omnigent, and 5 more. 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. The download page lists only the builds that are published right now.
Does it run on an Intel Mac?
Not yet. The macOS build is Apple silicon only. If you download it on an Intel Mac the installer will not open; there is no Intel build to fall back to today.
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.
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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