Your AI workspace.
On your terms.

Put an AI agent to work on your Mac. Research, code, and work with your files in one thoughtfully designed space.

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Start with one Apple Silicon Mac. Choose local models or connect a provider.

One task. Across your devices.

Simulated workflow
Give your Mac a task.

Project handoff

Simulated run
Review this sample project, run the tests, and write a short handoff.

Review this sample project, run the tests, and write a short handoff.

9:40 AM

Spinning local weights… 0.0s

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iOS chat. Same demo timeline.

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Simulated workflow. No models or commands run.

A workspace at your desk.
A connection when you step away.

Follow supported agent work from your iPhone or iPad.
Your models, your tools, your choice.

Built from scratch. Every layer.

Custom daemon. Custom dashboard. Custom tools. No wrappers, no frameworks, no cloud LLM APIs for inference. Electron, web, and iOS ship today — TUI and widgets are in the same repo.

asmi

The Control Plane

Custom Rust daemon on every node. Cluster telemetry and remote management over HTTP (port 9090) — no SSH required for day-to-day ops.

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RDMA Mesh

TB5 Tensor Parallelism

Thunderbolt 5 connects Mac nodes for distributed inference. JACCL splits models across nodes for multi-node Apple Silicon serving.

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Model Pipeline

Hugging Face to Inference

Browse HF Hub → download → MLX convert → quantize → deploy. Indexed local inventory with pluggable storage and auto-discovery.

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Natural Language Ops

Talk to Your Cluster

Cluster tools with rich preview renderers. Deploy models, check health, inspect processes — all through chat. Auto-heal pipeline included.

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Fully Private

Zero Cloud APIs

Tailscale mesh VPN. Inference and conversations stay on your hardware — no cloud LLM APIs. No vendor lock-in.

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Hermes Agent

37 skills. Zero cloud.

Every r1o install ships with Hermes -- a local AI agent that comes pre-loaded with 37 skills across 17 categories. Documents, GitHub, research, cluster ops, and more. All running on your hardware.

GitHub

6 skills

Code ReviewPR WorkflowIssuesRepo ManagementAuthCodebase Inspection

Apple

3 skills

Apple NotesApple RemindersiMessage

Documents

3 skills

Word / DOCXPDFExcel / XLSX

Creative

2 skills

ASCII ArtHumanizer

Research

2 skills

arXivDuckDuckGo Search

Software Dev

3 skills

Systematic DebuggingTDDWriting Plans

Cluster

2 skills

asmi daemonCluster Ops

MLOps

1 skill

HuggingFace Hub

Fully offline

All 37 skills work without internet. No API keys needed.

Self-expanding

Hermes learns new skills as you use it. Custom skills save to ~/.hermes/skills/.

Skills Hub

Install more from the Skills Hub marketplace anytime. Community-built, locally run.

Zero cloud dependency

Everything runs on your Mac. Your data never leaves your network.

Your pocket LLM awaits

Set up your Mac cluster, point your iPhone, and start chatting with private AI. Five minutes to first inference.