Agent Friday™ by FutureSpeak.AI™

An AI agent you install on your own Windows PC. It chats, listens and talks, drafts your mail, keeps your calendar, makes documents and remembers what matters to you. What it knows is kept in a folder on your PC, it asks before it sends, spends or deletes, and you choose where it thinks: only on this PC, or in the cloud with your own key. Nothing is sent to FutureSpeak.AI.

Agent Friday™ Beta 1.2 follows Beta 1.1, Beta 1.0.1 and Beta 1.0, the first release of the app. It is a pre-release: it is meant to be tried, and it has rough edges. They are listed in Known issues.

Why Friday

• Your data lives on your PC. Your wiki, conversations, settings and receipts live in one folder on your PC. There is no Friday server and no account. Finance, health, legal and family records go in a vault encrypted with your passphrase.
• You choose where it thinks. Friday can think on your own graphics card or processor, in the cloud (Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google and other providers), or both. Out of the box it is set to use the cloud; the setup conversation asks you, with nothing picked for you. Choose Only on this PC with a local model and every model runs on your PC. Every reply says which model answered. The code is MIT licensed.
• Zero telemetry. No analytics, no crash reports, no license check. Friday connects to the internet only for things you use: the model providers you configure, model downloads you approve, the news or weather you open. The optional update check, which is off until you turn it on, contacts api.github.com once a week.
• You approve actions. Reading and drafting run on their own. Sending, publishing, installing and changing your files wait for your yes on a card, unless you pre-approved that kind of send yourself, and every decision is written to a signed log you can read.

What it does

• Chat with any model, in a panel, a window or its own browser tab, with a sidebar of every conversation grouped into projects.
• Voice. Talk to Friday with on-device listening and speaking, or a cloud voice. Hold Alt+T anywhere in Windows to dictate into any app, transcribed on your PC.
• See & Touch. Friday sees what your open workspace shows, points at rows with numbered badges, ticks or filters what you mean, and fills in a field you can see. Acting on what is ticked still needs your approval.
• Mail and calendar. A Gmail client and Google Calendar and Tasks. Drafts are saved to your Gmail Drafts with no card, and nothing is sent. Friday sends only when you ask, after a card, or without one only to people you pre-approved. Calendar changes in Google ask first; showing or hiding a calendar inside Friday changes nothing in Google.
• Library and Media. Documents you add, read on your PC and answered with footnotes, and a media workspace with search, previews and transcripts.
• Documents. Real Word, Excel and PowerPoint files made locally and checked visually before Friday calls them done.
• Workflows, scheduled jobs and podcasts. Reusable procedures with checked results, jobs on a timetable that run on the model you pin, and podcast episodes spoken on your processor.
• Phone (off by default): texts, voicemail and approvals by text through your own Twilio number.

Download

1. Download AgentFriday-Setup-1.2.0-beta.2.exe (about 675 MB) from the latest release.
2. Check its SHA-256 against the one on the release page, then run it. The setup program is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen shows Unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. On the setup program's model page, pick local models (it shows only what fits your memory, graphics card and disk) or a cloud model.
4. Open Friday. She sets herself up with you in a short conversation: where she may think, what must never leave your PC, which services to connect (or I'll just use local AI), and a few house rules. Every step can be skipped.

The file carries its own Python and every package, so you need nothing else. Step by step: Getting started. If you run a 5.x version or an earlier beta, the same installer keeps your vault, memory and settings.

System requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Windows	10 or 11, 64-bit	11
Memory	16 GB for the local model Friday is tuned for	32 GB
Processor	4 physical cores with AVX2
Graphics card	None (the model runs on the processor, slowly)	NVIDIA with 12 GB or more of video memory
Free disk	About 8 GB for the program, plus models (about 6 GB for the deep thinker)	More, if you keep two local models

Machines below 16 GB of memory use a cloud model, or the older, lighter local models setup offers when they fit. Only NVIDIA cards are read for video memory. Sizing by graphics card, and what to expect, is in Troubleshooting.

Privacy and security

• What stays on your PC: everything Friday writes down. The vault is encrypted with your passphrase; keys and account tokens are encrypted; your wiki and conversations are ordinary files you can read.
• What leaves: what a cloud model needs to answer you, and only when a cloud model answers. Choosing Cloud for everything in setup is your consent to that; until you answer, the safeguards stay on. Your never-send list is refused for every cloud model, always, and a key you paste into chat is withheld. The checks match patterns, so sensitive meaning in ordinary words can get through. In "Only on this PC" mode with no local model running, Friday refuses the turn and offers to answer it in the cloud; nothing is sent until you choose.
• What leaves on its own: news feeds; health checks for services you connected; and, only if you said yes, the weekly update check. The page's fonts are bundled, so they make no request. The connectivity probe sends nothing unless you opt in. Models and helper downloads happen only when you approve them. Each is listed, with how to turn it off, in Background network activity.
• Remote access: Friday listens only on this PC. A request that comes through a tunnel or proxy is never treated as you.

More in Privacy: local and cloud, SECURITY.md and the threat model.

Documentation

Getting started	Download, SmartScreen, setup, the setup conversation, voice
User guide	Settings, Connect your services, Locks, Privacy, See & Touch, Library, Mail, Calendar, Voice and more
Troubleshooting and FAQ	Fixes for real failures, logs, backup, uninstall
Release notes, Changelog, Known issues	What is in Beta 1.2 and what is not right yet

For developers

Friday is a Python server (src/agent_friday/) with a single-file browser UI (index.html), a Windows tray, and a Windows installer. ARCHITECTURE.md describes how the pieces fit, and CONTRIBUTING.md covers building from source, the required checks and how to submit changes. Report security problems privately, as described in SECURITY.md. Please follow the Code of Conduct.

License

MIT License. Copyright 2026 FutureSpeak.AI. See LICENSE, NOTICE and THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md. The Windows installer brings in some packages under other licenses, including copyleft ones; NOTICE lists them.

Agent Friday™ and FutureSpeak.AI™ are trademarks of FutureSpeak.AI. Agent Friday™ is distinct from the Asimov's Mind Claude Code plugin, a separate product.

Created by FutureSpeak.AI™. Built with Claude by Anthropic as AI development partner.