{"slug": "pathfinder-android-native-research-agent", "title": "Pathfinder – Android native research agent", "summary": "Resolve Works released Pathfinder, a native Android research agent for Android 14 or newer that connects directly to user-configured model providers with no intermediary Pathfinder server. The GPL-3.0 app supports API keys or existing subscriptions for Anthropic (Claude Pro/Max), OpenAI (ChatGPT Plus/Pro), GitHub Copilot, Kimi, xAI (Grok/X Premium) and OpenRouter, and ships two tools: web_search via a user-supplied Brave Search API key and web_fetch, which renders pages and returns readable content as markdown. Sessions are stored on device as plain JSONL with branching, cross-session search and export, and the chat runtime is a selective Kotlin port of pi's agent runtime covering streaming, tool calls, reasoning, OAuth, retry, compaction and session persistence, with signed APKs distributed through GitHub Releases.", "body_md": "# Pathfinder\n\nA native Android research agent. A chat app that lets a language model search the web and read pages to answer — talking directly to the model providers you configure. There is no Pathfinder server in between.\n\nAndroid 14 or newer. Signed APKs from GitHub Releases.\n\n## Features\n\n### Providers\n\nSign in with API keys or existing subscriptions — Anthropic (Claude Pro/Max), OpenAI (ChatGPT Plus/Pro), GitHub Copilot, Kimi, xAI (Grok/X Premium), OpenRouter — or point it at most major providers and aggregators. Switch models mid-conversation.\n\n### Tools\n\n`web_search` (Brave Search API — bring your own key) and `web_fetch` (renders the page, returns its readable content as markdown).\n\n### Sessions\n\nStored on device as plain JSONL. Branch any turn into a new line of conversation, search across sessions, export or share them.\n\n### Runtime\n\nAutomatic retries, automatic compaction when a conversation outgrows the model’s context window, reasoning display with per-model thinking-level control, and a custom system prompt (persona).\n\n## Privacy\n\nNo analytics, crash reporting, or telemetry. Traffic goes only to the providers you configure, to Brave when search is set up, and to pages the agent fetches. Credentials are stored encrypted behind the Android Keystore and never leave the device except to authenticate with their provider.\n\n## Install\n\nRequires Android 14 or newer. Download the signed APK from the latest [release](https://github.com/resolveworks/pathfinder/releases), or track releases with [Obtainium](https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium):\n\n```\nhttps://github.com/resolveworks/pathfinder\n```\n\n## How it’s built\n\nThe chat runtime is a selective Kotlin port of [pi](https://pi.dev)’s agent runtime — messages, streaming, tool calls,\n\t\t\t\treasoning, usage, auth and OAuth, retry, compaction, and session persistence and\n\t\t\t\trecovery — mirroring pi’s package layout. The Android layer (Jetpack Compose, Material\n\t\t\t\t3) and the web tools are Pathfinder’s own. GPL-3.0.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pathfinder-android-native-research-agent", "canonical_source": "https://usepathfinder.eu/", "published_at": "2026-10-26 21:35:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-26 22:11:35.599759+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Pathfinder", "Resolve Works", "Android", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "GitHub Copilot", "Brave Search", "pi"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pathfinder-android-native-research-agent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pathfinder-android-native-research-agent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pathfinder-android-native-research-agent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pathfinder-android-native-research-agent.jsonld"}}