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
- Download
AgentFriday-Setup-1.2.0-beta.2.exe (about 675 MB) from the
latest release.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
