OpenFolks

OpenFolks is a free, open-source desktop app for working with a team of AI agents. You create folks, give each one a model, a working folder and a computer, assign them work in a chat window, and review what they did. Your conversations and files are stored on your own computer.

Features

Folks

• A folk is a long-lived teammate with its own instructions, model, voice, working folder, memory, tools and computer.
• Each conversation with a folk is a task, with its own transcript, approvals, costs and state.
• Send a message while a folk is busy and it is queued; supported engines can also be steered mid-turn.
• Edit, branch, rewind, pin, reply to and export any conversation.

Rooms and crews

• Put several folks in one room to share a brief and hand work to each other.
• Install a ready-made crew from the Marketplace: Dev Crew, Job Search, Sales Pipeline, Research Desk or Content Studio.

Computers

• Run a folk on your own computer (an explicit opt-in, chosen per folk), in an isolated Local VM through Docker or Podman, on a hosted cloud computer, or on a server you own over SSH.
• Watch a folk work through a live preview, and take over where the backend supports it.

Routines and webhooks

• Run a task once, on selected weekdays, or when a webhook arrives.
• Every run starts with fresh context and leaves a receipt.

Memory and voice

• Each folk keeps plain-text memory that you can read, edit and delete.
• Spoken replies and per-folk voices through ElevenLabs; on macOS, on-device dictation and call mode.

Connected apps and tools

• Connect Gmail, GitHub, Slack, Notion and many other services, with several labelled accounts per service.
• Attach your own tools through MCP.

Oversight

• Risky actions appear as approval cards in the conversation.
• Backstage shows the live record of each turn: tool calls, requests and errors.
• Per-task token and cost visibility.

Engines

• Folks run through the agent tools you already use, such as Claude and Codex, or through a local model.

Data is stored in ~/.openfolks. Set OPENFOLKS_DATA_DIR to use another location.

Download

Installers are published on the latest release.

System	File
Windows 10 and 11 (x64)	OpenFolks-setup.exe
macOS, Apple silicon	OpenFolks.dmg
macOS, Intel	OpenFolks-intel.dmg
Ubuntu 24.04 (x64)	OpenFolks-amd64.deb or OpenFolks.AppImage

The installers are not signed with an Apple or Microsoft certificate, so your system asks you to confirm the first time you open the app:

• Windows: in SmartScreen, choose More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS: after copying the app to Applications, run xattr -cr /Applications/OpenFolks.app, or right-click the app and choose Open.
• Linux: install the package with sudo apt install ./OpenFolks-amd64.deb.

Each release includes SHA256SUMS.txt so you can check your download.

License

OpenFolks is released under the MIT License. Third-party notices are in NOTICE.