# Inference Gateway Desktop, an AI client for any model provider

> Source: <https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop>
> Published: 2026-11-15 20:36:06+00:00

A native desktop app for AI agents that work on your computer - with any model provider and your own API keys.

Like Codex or Co-Work, but provider-agnostic: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, local Ollama models or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, all from one window. No silos, no vendor lock-in.

- **Chat and code in your projects** - the agent runs in the project directory you pick, with file tools sandboxed to it.
- **Give agents their own computer** - run an agent on a Kubernetes workspace, watch its screen inside its chat or under**Computers** , and take over the mouse and keyboard when it gets stuck. Each workspace has its own**Computer use** ,**Browser use** ,**Recording** and**Text to speech** switches in Settings > Workspaces, on by default - the ones in Settings > General, and the speech one in Settings > Voice samples, cover this computer only. A workspace can also mount**volumes** - existing claims of its namespace, read-only where the agent should copy before it edits - so a heavy app or raw footage is not downloaded to every machine. On the local cluster, Settings > Compute shares**folders of this computer** with its workspaces - mounted straight from here with no copy, read-only for every workspace or for one.
- **Drive your browser** - the[opentask](https://github.com/inference-gateway/opentask) extension lets the agent navigate, click, type and read tabs in your everyday browser.
- **Write your own agents** - Markdown files with a name, instructions, model and face. Agents can hand work to each other.
- **Make content** - talking-avatar clips, text to speech and text to video on a timeline in Content projects.
- **Stay portable** - the app updates itself, and Export / Import moves your whole setup to a new machine.

Download the asset for your platform from the [latest release](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/releases/latest):

| Platform | Download | 
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) | `.dmg` | 
| Linux x86_64 | `.AppImage` ,`.deb` or`.rpm` | 
| Windows x64 | `-setup.exe` or`.msi` | 

Releases are not signed by Apple or Microsoft, so the first launch needs one extra click: on macOS right-click > Open and confirm, on Windows choose "More info" > "Run anyway". On first run the app downloads the `infer` CLI and the gateway into `~/.infer/` (on Windows you install the gateway yourself, see [How it works](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/how-it-works.md)). Then add your provider keys under Settings > API Keys and start chatting.

- [How it works](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/how-it-works.md) - the gateway and CLI, working directory and sandbox, updates, supported platforms.
- [Agents and computers](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/agents.md) - write your own agents and give them a machine of their own.
- [The Mac's GPU](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/gpu.md) - run the local cluster on Podman so its computers use this Mac's GPU.
- [Browser use](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/browser-use.md) - connect the opentask extension.
- [Avatars](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/avatars.md) - lip-synced talking clips of yourself in Content projects.
- [Export / Import](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/docs/export-import.md) - move your setup to a new machine.
- [examples/computer-use](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/examples/computer-use) - three agents on Ubuntu desktops in a local Kubernetes cluster.
- [examples/filmcraft](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/examples/filmcraft) - an editor agent with FilmCraft on every computer, from a folder shared with the local cluster.
- [examples/drone-footage](https://github.com/inference-gateway/desktop/blob/main/examples/drone-footage) - an agent edits raw drone footage end to end: stabilisation, a color grade, ElevenLabs sound and one export per platform shape.

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