Local-first AI workbench
Row-Bot is a desktop AI workspace that can reason, coordinate agents, and act across the tools you choose. Conversations, goals, projects, and durable knowledge remain on your machine, with local or hosted models connected explicitly.
Free · open source · no Row-Bot account
One durable workspace
Direct a thread with a durable role and objective, review consequential actions, and keep the result with the local context that produced it.
Set the role, objective, tools, and working boundaries.
Approve consequential shell, browser, MCP, and delivery steps.
Retain threads, runs, knowledge, and project state locally.
The workbench
Reasoning, coordination, action, and production stay connected through durable threads and explicit controls.
Choose local models or explicit hosted and private endpoints. Build auditable knowledge with documents, graph memory, cache-only local embeddings, and graceful lexical and graph recall when semantic search is unavailable.
Explore models and knowledge →Give work durable roles and objectives, delegate within visible capacity limits, and bound long runs with checkpoint-safe budgets, repeated-action protection, and graceful completion.
Explore orchestration →Use the browser, shell, files, MCP servers, and messaging channels behind reviewable approvals. Opt-in Computer Use can control reviewed Windows and macOS applications while keeping browser automation separate.
Explore tools and boundaries →Developer Studio keeps repository work, diffs, tests, and approvals visible. Designer Studio creates decks, documents, pages, mockups, and storyboards as durable, editable output.
Explore both studios →Real product demonstrations
These walkthroughs show complete tasks in the real product: creating launch assets, turning research into a report, and running a controlled background workflow.
Local-first architecture
Conversations, profiles, goals, knowledge, project context, workflow history, and paired-device records live locally. Hosted providers and networked tools receive the context required only for requests you explicitly choose.
Explore the architecture| Capability | Typical cloud-only chat | Row-Bot |
|---|---|---|
| Durable system of record | Provider-hosted account and conversation state | Local conversations, goals, profiles, knowledge, workflows, and project records |
| Model choice | Models selected by the service | Local runtimes, hosted APIs, subscriptions, routers, and private compatible endpoints |
| Tools and actions | Service-defined integrations and sandboxes | Built-in tools, MCP, channels, Computer Use, and explicit approval boundaries |
| Background work | Usually tied to the provider session | Durable workflows, schedules, delegated agents, run history, budgets, and delivery policy |
| Offline operation | Requires the hosted service | Local models and local tools can continue without a hosted provider |
| Control and portability | Subject to service limits, retention, and product changes | Apache 2.0 application with local data and explicit external routes |
Hosted providers still receive the context required for requests you send to them. Capabilities vary by service; this compares the operating model rather than every provider feature.
Before you install
A local application, explicit providers, durable local records, and reviewable actions.
Yes. Row-Bot is Apache 2.0 licensed and does not require a Row-Bot subscription. Local models can be free to run on your hardware; hosted providers and external services may have their own charges.
Yes, when you select a local runtime and local tools. Hosted models, cloud embeddings, web tools, online channels, and remote access require network connections and remain opt-in.
Row-Bot supports Windows 10/11, macOS, and Linux. Model paths include Ollama, major hosted APIs, subscription providers, routing services, and private OpenAI-compatible endpoints; see the maintained provider inventory for details.
The selected provider receives the current model-visible conversation and tool context needed for that request. Durable conversations, knowledge, profiles, goals, and project records stay on your machine unless you deliberately send specific data through a provider or networked tool.
Mobile Companion is a phone-native web interface served by Row-Bot running on your computer. It connects through a route you choose and is not a standalone iOS or Android download; the host computer must remain running and reachable.
Continue on desktop
Row-Bot runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open row-bot.ai on your computer to install it.
