🦎 Skales

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# 🦎 Skales

### Your Local AI Agent - Desktop App for Windows, macOS & Linux
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**No Terminal. No Docker. No Node.js. No npm.**

**Download. Install. Done.**

[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-7.2.0-1DB954?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0D1117)](https://skales.app)
[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSL_1.1-1DB954?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0D1117)](./LICENSE)
[![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/Windows_+_macOS_+_Linux-1DB954?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0D1117&logo=windows&logoColor=white)](https://skales.app)
[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-skalesapp%2Fskales-1DB954?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0D1117&logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/skalesapp/skales)
[![Signed](https://img.shields.io/badge/macOS-Code_Signed-1DB954?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0D1117&logo=apple&logoColor=white)](https://skales.app)

[**Download**](https://skales.app) · [**Documentation**](https://docs.skales.app) · [**Blog**](https://getskales.app) · [**Changelog**](./CHANGELOG.md)

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## ⚡ Why Skales?

| | Others | Skales |
|---|---|---|
| **Setup** | Docker, Terminal, CLI | Download EXE/DMG/AppImage, double-click |
| **RAM** | 1.5-3GB+ | ~300MB |
| **OS** | Linux / Docker required | Windows + macOS + Linux native |
| **Time to first agent** | Hours to days | 30 seconds |
| **Updates** | Manual rebuild | One-click auto-updater |
| **Code Signing** | Rarely | ✅ Apple Developer ID |

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## 🆕 What's New in v7.2.0 - "The Next Chapter"

**🌐 Built-in Browser (Beta)** - Browse the web with AI assistance. Skales navigates, scrolls, clicks, and extracts content — all inside a built-in webview. Includes conversation log, session export as Markdown, cookie banner auto-accept, and browser history.

**🎨 4 Themes** - Skales (default, light/dark toggle), Obsidian (dark, top navigation bar), Snowfield (light, icon rail), Neon (dark vibrant, icon rail). Each theme has its own navigation style.

**📊 Dashboard Builder** - Customizable dashboard with status cards, connections overview, memory word cloud, recent sessions, and optional widgets (calendar, weather, buddy, email, tasks, plan, stats). Toggle widgets on and off in edit mode.

**⚡ Always-On Agent (Beta)** - Schedule tasks with cron syntax or natural language. Background execution with log viewer. Identity Maintenance runs daily to keep Skales's memory of you up to date. System jobs are protected from accidental deactivation.

**📞 Live Duplex Voice (Beta)** - Talk to Skales naturally with real-time speech recognition (Groq Whisper, OpenAI Whisper, Azure Speech) and text-to-speech (ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS, Azure Speech). Voice Activity Detection for hands-free conversations.

**📱 PWA Mobile Access (Beta)** - Access Skales from your phone via Tailscale. QR code setup wizard, auto-detect Tailscale IP. Full desktop interface on mobile.

**🤖 Agent Swarm (Alpha)** - Multi-instance collaboration via mDNS discovery. Skales instances on the same network can discover each other and delegate tasks.

**📧 Newsletter & Feedback** - Opt-in for update notifications with explicit consent. Report bugs directly from the app and track their status.

**✅ Apple Code Signed** - macOS builds are now signed with an Apple Developer ID certificate (Mario Simic, Q5ASU2DB6P). No more Gatekeeper workarounds on most systems.

**🌍 9 Languages** - English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Русский, 中文, 日本語, 한국어 & Português. 1732 translation keys fully synced.

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## 🚀 Features

**🖥️ Native Desktop App** - Runs as a proper desktop application. System tray, auto-start, graceful shutdown. No browser needed.

**Multi-Provider Hub** - 13+ LLM providers: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Together AI, xAI, DeepSeek, Minimax, Replicate (BYOK), OpenAI Compatible endpoint (KoboldCpp, LM Studio, vLLM), and local Ollama.

**🌐 Built-in Browser (Beta)** - AI-assisted web browsing with navigation, scrolling, clicking, DOM-to-Markdown extraction, cookie banner auto-accept, session history, and export as Markdown.

**🦁 Lio AI - Code Builder** - Multi-AI code builder. Architect designs, Reviewer improves, Builder executes. Live preview. Build entire projects from plain language. Deploy to FTP/SFTP with one click.

**📅 Planner AI (Beta)** - AI-powered daily scheduling. 8-step wizard learns your work patterns, generates time-blocked plans from your calendar events, and pushes them back. Day and week views.

**🎨 4 Themes** - Skales (default, light/dark), Obsidia

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