Arqen
A local AI assistant for Windows, with a Mission Control for agents, tasks
and workflows.
Website: arqen.samidatools.com
Arqen is a desktop app built with PyQt6. You chat with it by text or voice,
hand work to agents that run in the background, and give those agents exactly
the tools they need: your files, the web, GitHub, Google, Discord, Telegram or
any MCP server. Anything that can't be undone waits for your approval.
It is built to be local, controllable and extensible. Cloud models are
optional; a local model through Ollama or LM Studio works as the base.
Svenska · The interface speaks English or Swedish
(Settings → Language).
Screenshots show demo data.
Features
Chat and voice
- Chats you can open, rename and delete; replies stream in and can be stopped
mid-answer.
- Neural voice through Edge TTS (
en-GB-RyanNeural, or sv-SE-MattiasNeural
in Swedish) and speech recognition through faster-whisper.
- A voice panel with an animated ring that shows whether Arqen is idle,
listening, thinking or speaking.
- A stats panel with tokens and cost for the chat, the latest reply and in
total. The cost is the provider's own figure, not an estimate.
Mission Control
- Tasks, multi-agent workflows, schedules (daily, weekly, monthly or once) and
an activity log.
- Agents with their own tool rules. Every task runs in its own Arqen, so an
agent's limits never affect your chat.
- Timeouts, recovery, retries and stored results for tasks.
- One approval bar at the top of every view collects everything that is
waiting for you.
Memory
- Long-term memory with source, status and confidence.
- Arqen suggests memories when you tell it something lasting; you approve
or reject them under Memory. Only approved memories are used.
- Reflect: Arqen reads recent tasks and chats and suggests lasting lessons,
also as suggestions.
- "Remember that …" saves right away.
Tools and safety
- Tools for the system, windows and programs, files in your workspace,
documents (PDF, Word, Excel), the web, a built-in browser, voice and image
generation.
- Approval is required to write, delete, move or undo files, to create images
(which costs money) and to close programs.
- A Tool Gateway with risk levels, rules per agent and a local log of every
tool call, including its cost.
- API keys are read only when a tool runs and are scrubbed from everything a
tool returns. Memories that look like passwords or keys are never stored.
Connections
- GitHub (personal token): repos, issues and pull requests; creating an
issue needs approval.
- Google (OAuth with your own Desktop client): search and read Gmail, see
upcoming Calendar events, search and read Drive files. Mail drafts and
calendar events are created with approval; no mail is ever sent.
- Discord (webhook) and Telegram (bot): send messages with approval,
and optional notifications when tasks finish or fail.
- MCP servers: add an address (e.g. Zapier's MCP URL) or a local program,
and the server's tools become Arqen tools. They need approval unless the
server marks them read-only.
Models
- Ollama / LM Studio, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Gemini and Claude.
- Ready-made profiles: Private (Ollama), Fast (OpenRouter), Important (OpenAI)
and Creative (Gemini).
- An optional fallback provider if the first one doesn't answer (off by
default).
Getting started
What you need
- A PC with Windows 10 or 11 and about 1.5 GB of free disk space.
- An internet connection while installing.
- A model for Arqen to think with, one of:
You don't need to install Python yourself: the installer takes care of it.
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