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Build with your agents and use what they make. Baux brings team conversations, project files, permissions, and Live preview into one macOS workspace. The latest build adds interactive previews, simulator streaming, and a calmer Neutral Dark interface.
Baux turns a prompt into a visible team operation. Choose the shape, set every permission, and follow the work without losing the thread.
Eleven patterns cover software, research, code review, teaching, product launches, and security work. Edit any pattern or build a team from scratch.
Give the Director and every worker only the tools, model, and persona their job requires—nothing more.
Open the session behind any delegation. See the brief, tool calls, files changed, final report, tokens, and cost.
The workspace now includes eleven team patterns, tool approvals, MCP connections, session archives, and live team controls. Explore the latest preview and personalization changes below.
Install the signed, Apple-notarized app for Apple silicon. Its runtime is included. Built-in update checks download new releases in the background.
Product Studio and five security teams join the original five patterns. Each team has editable roles, models, tools, and instructions.
The Agents menu groups work by project and team. See who is active, needs input, or finished. Send guidance to running workers through their Director.
Keep command output, web apps, agent browsers, simulators, and desktop windows beside the conversation. The latest build adds input controls and iOS display streaming.
Choose Read-only, Ask before changes, or Trusted for each session. Connect optional MCP servers through local commands or HTTP, under the same permission controls.
Use an Anthropic API key or Claude OAuth. Inspect reported usage and balances. Quota-aware resume holds eligible turns until a usage window resets.
Opt in to read Claude Code and Codex transcripts beside Baux sessions. Choose an archive location, restore sessions, and retain recorded usage after archival.
Start with a setup wizard and 16 built-in prompts. The latest build adds Neutral Dark, theme-aware icons, and distinct sounds for success, errors, and input requests.
Baux 0.5.0 is shipping. Explore interactive previews, simulator streaming, and the updated workspace. Screenshots captured October 17, 2026, with sample conversation data.
Click, drag, scroll, and type in supported preview sources. Browser, iOS, Android, and macOS controls keep review beside the agent’s conversation.
iOS Simulator previews stream display changes, with screenshot fallback. Select a capture rate or pause the preview when you need to inspect a frame.
The preview tray can open when an agent runs device tests. Follow new previews, filter by platform, or focus on the current session and its workers.
Platform tools and permissions are required. Android needs adb; macOS window input needs Accessibility access.
Neutral Dark is the new default. Choose a theme family, switch between light and dark, and let the Dock icon and favicon follow your choice.
Choose distinct sounds for successful completion, errors, running jobs, and requests for input. New Mario-style presets join the existing sound choices.
The latest build also improves narrow layouts, touch targets, command-palette sizing, and multiline entry. Screenshots use an isolated sample workspace.
Autonomy should be legible. Baux makes the boundaries and consequences of agent work visible before, during, and after a run.
Tool whitelists are applied exactly. A read-only researcher cannot quietly become a writer because a prompt drifted.
Send the next task to one teammate, a selected group, or everyone—even while a run is active—and pin their work to an existing project directory.
Director and worker usage rolls up into one team view without flattening the individual sessions behind it.
Run independent work in parallel or keep write-capable tasks serial. Limits scale to the model’s context window.
Baux keeps the conversation beside the project, so context lives where the work is happening—not in another terminal tab.
See usage across every Baux session and project, from the last hour to the lifetime of the machine. Live status also keeps each reported rolling window—normally 5-hour and weekly for ChatGPT/Codex—and the credit balance in view.
Optional metadata-only views for locally installed Codex CLI and Claude Code stay separate from Baux totals.
Baux is local-first by architecture. It reads the files already on your machine and gives them a better interface.
Sessions, project files, and usage reports are not uploaded to a Baux service. Prompts go only to the model providers you configure.
Browsing and editing are limited to project directories from your sessions and locations you deliberately choose.
The desktop app uses an internal loopback server. Standalone browser access, remote server access, and the TUI are no longer supported.
Bring the providers you already use or keep inference nearby with a local model server. Roles can use different models.
An AI model can reason, but the harness makes it operational. Baux coordinates the agent loop, team roles, tools, context, workspace, and audit trail around the model.
Learn what an AI agent harness does and which runtime components make agents useful.
Read the guide 02Build custom agent teams with separate roles, models, tools, and execution boundaries.
Build the team 03Keep agents close to project files, Git history, local models, and inspectable execution.
Explore local-first 04Compare agentic frameworks, agent builders, code harnesses, and operating workspaces.
Compare the layersClear answers for people evaluating an agent builder, agentic framework, or local code harness.
An agentic harness is the runtime around an AI model that manages the agent loop, context, tools, permissions, execution, memory, and results. It turns a language model into an agent that can complete multi-step work.
An agentic framework is usually a toolkit or SDK for developing agents. An agent harness is the operating runtime that actually coordinates models, tools, context, boundaries, and execution. Baux provides that runtime as a local workspace for visible agent teams.
Yes. Start with a built-in team pattern or create a custom team with its own Director, worker roles, personas, models, tools, and scheduling style.
Yes. Route the next prompt to one teammate, a selected group, or the whole team and choose the existing project directory where their worker sessions run. The runtime enforces both choices, including during an active run.
Yes. Baux is local-first: project files, sessions, and usage history stay on your machine. Prompts go only to the cloud or local model providers you configure.
Baux keeps coding agents beside the repository with project files, edits, Git diffs, branches, worktrees, worker sessions, and exact tool access in one inspectable workspace.
Build the team. Set the boundaries. Inspect the work.