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The Home deck
The tray on the left, the card you are reading lit up on it. Keep scrolling — free cards first, then PRO.
Free
Usage counts tokens locally as your agents work and draws quota headroom for nine providers on one screen, so you see a runaway before it eats the week. A probe that cannot answer reads unknown, never zero. Publishing to the public leaderboard is free and opt-in.
Stays free Ships with Lite. The Leaderboard card, public profiles and badges stay free.
Free
Live activity is the running picture of every agent on this machine, and Needs You is the amber flag it raises the moment one stops and waits on you — a question, a permission prompt, an approval. Billing can never take it away: Needs You and approval visibility are never paywalled.
Stays free Ships with Lite and is never paywalled.
Free
Recent sessions reads the transcript files your CLIs already write and copies them into one local library you can search across vendors, then reopens a session in its own CLI where that CLI supports resume. 45 session formats today; full-text search hits all of them at once.
Stays free Ships with Lite. PRO adds inline replies to a running session.
Free
Press Ctrl Alt Space and speak — Parakeet transcribes on your own hardware and the text lands in whatever window has focus. Kokoro reads agent status back in a local voice. The card also carries the announce ledger: what was spoken, and when.
Stays free Ships with Lite. PRO adds cloud voice when the machine is busy.
Free
Ask Automater is the chat card on the Lite Home panel. Pick the AI app you want from the card and talk to it without leaving the tray. It runs on your own installed app and account, so Lite adds no charge and no message limit. Letting it see your screen and act on it is part of PRO.
Stays free Ships with Lite. PRO adds letting your AI see your screen and act on it.
Free
Detected AI apps scans this machine for the AI tools you have installed and shows which are running right now, with live presence and status. It closes the Home deck and ships collapsed. PRO adds the 0-100 resource hog score on top of the same list.
Stays free Ships with Lite. PRO adds live CPU, memory and I/O hog scores.
Free
Settings is where Lite becomes yours: pick the Blue, Carbon or Steel theme and the panel’s opacity, choose which cards sit in the Home deck and in what order, and keep your provider accounts and app updates in one place. Every choice sticks between launches.
Stays free Ships with Lite. No account, no trial clock.
Free
Leaderboard brings your usage rank, activity insights and profile into Lite for free. Join with a verified Automater account; GitHub linking is optional. Publish under your public username or an alias you choose, with separate controls for your profile, badges, exact totals and provider breakdown. Share a badge in your README. PRO adds a gold accent and PRO label; scoring and features are the same for everyone.
Stays free The Leaderboard card, public profiles, badges and scoring stay free.
PRO
PRO adds the enhanced Grok Bots card: browse your Bot roster, see their latest indexed replies and open conversations from one card in Home, the PRO tab, Mini or a pop-out. Grok Bot conversations remain visible in Home Recent and the searchable local session library for Free users. Needs You, approvals, Stop, Cancel and Disable stay free.
Free keeps Grok Bot conversations remain visible in Home Recent and the session library.
Beta
Files docks a repo and file browser inside Lite: the working tree, the commit graph and the file you need, without alt-tabbing to an editor. Part of the built-in tools set, so it is paid and still experimental.
Free keeps The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
Beta
Terminal runs local and WSL shells straight from the Home deck. It ships hidden — enable it once from the customize panel and your choice sticks. Part of the built-in tools set, so it is paid and still experimental.
Free keeps Your own terminal, the session library and the meters.
PRO
AI News & alerts ranks headlines from labs, research and industry by importance every few minutes, and adds incident and release alerts for the providers and CLIs detected on this machine. Automater Intel field guides are pinned beside the news that matters to agent builders.
Free keeps Live activity, usage meters, and the session library stay free.
Beta
Live Visualizer draws a repository as a live component map, with dependencies, progress and blocked work, and shows agents moving across it in real time with the files they are touching. Zoom from every repo down to the individual files a session is editing. Live activity, Needs You, approvals and the session library stay free without the map.
Free keeps Live activity, Needs You, approvals and the session library.
Beta
Browser puts a web view and a markdown viewer in the tray, so docs, dashboards and a rendered README open beside the agents instead of in another window. Part of the built-in tools set, so it is paid and still experimental.
Free keeps The session library, meters, Activity and Needs You.
Beta
Camera FX sends an effects version of your webcam to your meeting app as Automater Camera on Windows 11. Put a blazer over what you're wearing, change your shirt color, or go cartoon. Everything runs on this PC; your real webcam, local dictation and the session library stay free.
Free keeps Your real webcam, local dictation and the session library.
