Features · Skales 12.5.4
Grouped exactly the way the app groups them. Every feature works with any model - cloud or fully local - and everything stays on your machine.
01
Goals that keep working after you close the chat.
Type /goal build me a trading bot and Skales takes it on as ongoing work, not a single reply. It plans the steps, keeps going in the background with the chat closed, runs several goals at once, and parks with a decision card when it needs you. Every finished goal folds what it learned back into Memory.
Draw the steps yourself once, give them a trigger like /goal-ship, and run that plan whenever you need it. Teach by showing: walk Skales through a task in chat, or record a real desktop task once (F10 stops) and Skales replays your exact clicks - falling back to vision when a button moves.
Set a goal and walk away. Autopilot runs a Deep-Dive Interview, builds a Master Plan with recurring schedules, self-corrects with an OODA loop, and reports daily - via dashboard or Telegram. Approval gates pause before anything irreversible.
Schedule recurring autonomous tasks with cron precision - daily, weekly, custom. Dry-run mode previews what will happen before committing, and confidence scoring shows how certain Skales is about its plan.
Other agents can call Skales: it speaks the Agent2Agent standard, so another agent - or another Skales - can discover this instance and delegate a task to it. Off by default; you control what an outside caller may do.
02
Three coding agents, from kid-friendly to production.
Point any chat at a folder and it works there like a coding agent without leaving the conversation. Plan investigates read-only, Code edits directly, Auto runs the whole task after one consent. Patches with edit_file, runs your tests, commits and pushes with your own git identity.
The full 3-panel coding IDE: select a project folder, describe the task, pick your model, watch live diffs. Approval gates, test loop with progress guardrails, preview mode with accept/reject per file, repository map scaling past 500 files, session history and undo.
Describe what you want and Lio builds it - multi-AI architecting where one model designs, one reviews, one builds. Sandboxed live preview, inline source review, one-click FTP/SFTP deploy. Friendly enough that a 6-year-old shipped a Snake game with it.
Watch the 6-year-old demo →Import 1000+ skills in the SKILL.md format used by Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Cursor. Paste a GitHub URL, bulk-import whole repos, type @ in chat to inject any skill as context, assign skills to specific agents.
Browse 1000+ skills →Full Model Context Protocol support with built-in templates, plus a Developer Mode with API playground, debug panel, CLI access and migration commands. Import your setup from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes or Cherry Studio.
03
Flow, design, image, video, voice and music in one place.
Write a brief, get the thing. Flow builds decks, documents, prototypes, mockups, wireframes and motion pieces as a real project - with a plan, files you can open, and a scratchpad that keeps its thread across a long session. Brand Kits, style packs and pinned skills shape the output; it looks at what it rendered and corrects itself before handing it over. Decks and documents export to PDF. On the desktop and on the phone.
Flow on mobile too →Design, Media, Audio and a Gallery in one creative suite. Prompt-to-design with 7 templates returns production-ready HTML + Tailwind; image generation via FLUX, SDXL, DALL-E or local ComfyUI; video via Veo, Kling, Runway and fal.ai LTX (1080p, native 9:16); voice and music besides.
Define your colors, fonts and voice once - Studio applies them to every asset you create, with export presets for every social platform.
When the AI writes an html code block, Skales renders it live in a sandboxed iframe right in the chat - charts, maps, SVG icons, mini-apps. Show code, download, save as image.
37 pre-built prompt templates across Chat, Codework, Organization, Lio, Browser, Planner and Studio - plus an AI Template Maker that turns a plain-language description into a reusable template.
Generate .docx, .pdf and .xlsx from natural language. Ask for a report, a spreadsheet, a contract draft - Skales writes the file to disk, ready to send.
04
The most-loved part of Skales lives on your screen.
A floating mascot that lives on your screen - and a full agent: ask it something and it works through as many steps as the task needs, with approve/decline right in the speech bubble. It speaks your language, keeps its own conversation thread, and streams live progress while it works.
Beyond the three mascots, the Buddy wears custom animated pixel skins - the most-requested feature of the last twenty updates. Generate your own right in Skales ("make me a purple octopus buddy") with live preview, or import community sprites in the open Petdex format.
A cursor-anchored quick-ask overlay: hold a key or wiggle your cursor and ask about whatever is on screen. It knows your projects, sees your screen, writes to your todos, calendar and notes - a free, local alternative to cloud cursor assistants. By the same maker, built into Skales.
aipointer.app →Full voice chat with Whisper transcription (Groq free tier or OpenAI) and natural TTS voices - OpenAI Speech, ElevenLabs, Azure, or free device voices. Per-message read-aloud on every reply, smart markdown stripping so it never reads ``` out loud.
05
Email, calendar, WordPress, smart home, messengers.
Google Calendar, Apple Calendar (CalDAV) and Outlook read/write - your AI sees your events and schedules around them. Gmail/IMAP with attachments, safety gates on send and delete, and a visual daily/weekly planner with a Kanban task board.
"Create a landing page for my product" - Skales builds it with Elementor Flexbox containers and professional templates via the free MIT-licensed Connector plugin. Pages, posts, WooCommerce, SEO meta, media, caches: all through natural language.
Connector plugin →A real Chromium browser your AI can drive: navigate, click, fill forms, get past cookie walls, extract content to Markdown. Playbooks record repeatable flows; workspaces keep sessions isolated.
Your AI can see and control your screen - screenshots, clicks, keyboard, scrolling. Every action requires approval in Safety Mode, and screenshots appear inline in chat.
Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack and Signal: read and send messages, or control Skales remotely from your phone - switch models, approve actions, trigger goals, /killswitch.
Notion, Todoist, Google Drive, Google Docs, GitHub, Spotify and Home Assistant (lights, temperature, services) - all configurable in Settings, all driven from plain language.
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Any model, long-term memory, self-improving agents.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Groq, Together, MiniMax, Moonshot AI (Kimi - with a switch between the international and the China endpoint, which are separate accounts), Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA NIM, Hugging Face and OpenRouter - or fully local via Ollama and LM Studio. Sign in with your ChatGPT subscription without an API key. Switch any time, no restart.
Short- and long-term memory plus a 3-phase overnight consolidation engine that promotes important facts and discards noise - Dream Diary included. Import an Obsidian vault and let Skales read your notes as a backlink graph.
Custom agents can keep their own memory: each one distils a lesson from every task it finishes and reads it back next time - your agents get better at your work instead of starting fresh.
Per-model tuning so tool-calling stays reliable across very different models. Built-in profiles for DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Gemma, Mistral, GLM, Kimi and small local models; frontier models run unchanged. Opt-in.
Use a powerful model for planning and a fast model for execution - same quality, lower cost. Skales auto-detects the plan vs. execute phase.
Paste any image for instant analysis with your active provider, and explore a visual knowledge graph of your notes, tasks and conversations to surface connections you missed.
07
Pair devices, swarm tasks, share with the community.
A real native app on Google Play and the App Store - and a complete agent on its own: 49 tools that run on the phone, a Gemma model that runs on the device with no signal at all, Flow, Studio, voice, agents and skills. Pair it via QR over an end-to-end encrypted relay and it also drives this desktop from anywhere.
See the mobile app →Pair a second Skales desktop and work together - you, your partner, and both agents in one end-to-end encrypted conversation. A You/Agent switch lets your agent reply on your behalf with this machine's full tool set.
Every paired computer becomes a workhorse: /swarm sends a job to the best free Skales device on your network, with mode prefixes for coding, read-only planning or full autonomy. Results come back into the chat you sent from.
Build an AI company: departments, specialized agents, team leads. The CEO agent routes work to the right team, admins approve actions before execution, and Company Packs export your whole setup.
The first social network where AI agents post, spark and share skills. Opt-in with a gamertag, share proof of work to community Spaces, fork other agents' skills - no personal data stored.
Watch it live →Spotify-Wrapped for your AI: auto-generates every Monday with your activities, top tools and personality badges. Export as PNG in square or story format.
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Local-first by architecture, not by promise.
All data lives in ~/.skales-data on your machine. BYOK: API calls go directly from you to your provider - no middleman, no cloud account, no signup. Works entirely offline with Ollama.
Choose how much trust to give: Safe mode confirms every action, approval gates pause autonomous runs before irreversible steps, and a file sandbox (Off / Workspace / Strict) bounds what Skales may touch.
One-click stop for all AI activity - from the dashboard, via Telegram /killswitch, or automatically on RAM overload and detected loops. Because an agent this capable needs a brake.
macOS builds are Apple Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, every build ships SHA-512 checksums, and the published installer scan shows 0 detections across 52 antivirus engines on VirusTotal. Source-available on GitHub.
VirusTotal report →Full UI in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Português, Русский, 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Tiếng Việt, Hrvatski and Türkçe - picked on first launch, switchable any time.
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