Daedalus is a personal AI agent with its own app window, real tools and a folder of your own to work in. It hands work to a team, checks every command against a policy and comes to you only with what a person has to decide.
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A three-minute story about a closed door. The scene is animation; the screens in it are the real app on a demo install. It plays only when you press play.
The project orchestrator does not ping you over every detail. Its questions and the staff's permission requests collect in one Questions tab. Answer some now, the rest later, and send them with one button. Everything that waits for your decision — questions, reviews, missing inputs — is one Needs decision list.
The orchestrator breaks the project’s goal into tasks on a board and hands them to staff — Daedalus agents or CLI agents such as Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode — each with a role, a model and a brief with a “done when”. When a result comes in, you review it and accept it. How much the orchestrator decides without you is the project’s autonomy: ask first, normal or full.
Each tool call gets allow, ask or deny before it runs. Deny is final. An ask can be lifted for this one call. Your own rules can make the built-in ones stricter, never looser.
The agent opens sites in its own Chromium and you watch the page live. Take control, do your part, give it back. Passwords and payments stay with you.
On a server, a change to Daedalus's own code arrives as a pull request you approve. On a computer there is no review: the change is checked on a copy and applied when you restart, and a version that fails to start rolls back. Self-development can be turned off.
Provider keys live in a separate key proxy the agent never sees. When the day's budget is spent, the proxy stops paying. The cap is set outside the agent's reach and counts measurable spend: local and free models and subscriptions keep running past it.
Real screens of the Daedalus app on a demo install with invented data.
The program is the same. What changes is the boundary between the agent and your machine, and where you can reach it from.
Only the launcher. The lightest way in: download, answer three questions, and the window opens.
The same launcher with Docker Desktop or Docker Engine. The agent lives in a container.
Docker Compose and a domain. Then the app opens on your phone and, if you want, in Telegram.
The app opens on “Add a model” until you pick one. You see the context window and prices before you add it.
Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux. Daedalus installs like any other application and sets itself up in its own window.
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“Download from our server” is our mirror of the latest release, “GitHub” is the release itself. The files are the same; the version and sizes are filled in when the page loads.
Daedalus-macOS.dmgSigned ad-hoc, without a Developer ID or notarization: macOS 15 will not open the app right away.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Daedalus.app
Daedalus-Setup-x64.exeInstalls for you only, with no administrator. The installer is not code-signed, so SmartScreen warns once: More info → Run anyway.
Daedalus-linux-amd64.debsudo apt install ./Daedalus-linux-amd64.deb, or open it with your software centre.
Daedalus-linux-x86_64.AppImageMake it executable (chmod +x) and open it.
Daedalus-linux-arm64.debsudo apt install ./Daedalus-linux-arm64.deb
Daedalus-linux-arm64.AppImageMake it executable (chmod +x) and open it.
Every file is listed in SHA256SUMS (server · GitHub), and SHA256SUMS itself is signed together with the release tag in SHA256SUMS.sig (server · GitHub) by the project’s release key, minisign A18524FA935353DF. A file reaches our server only after that signature and SHA256SUMS check out.
On macOS and Linux the script takes the newest desktop-v* release, checks the release signature and SHA256SUMS and unpacks it into ./Daedalus.
Run it only in a new folder: in a folder with an existing install it updates it in place.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anchor-inference/daedalus/main/desktop/install.sh | sh
git clone https://github.com/anchor-inference/daedalus cd daedalus bash deploy/setup.sh
Daedalus is a young project. Here is what to know up front.
The application says when a newer release is out and installs it with Install and restart: it protects the data first, and if the new version does not come up, it puts the data and the previous version back. But an update takes the agent's code from the main branch, and the launcher and that code may not match, so update the install you work with deliberately.
The release number belongs to the launcher. A first install takes the agent's code from the release itself, and updates move it to the main branch, so installs of one release can drift apart over time.
macOS is signed ad-hoc, without a Developer ID or Apple notarization; the Windows installer is not signed. SHA256SUMS is signed by the project's release key (SHA256SUMS.sig), so a tampered file shows.
macOS 15 refuses a copy downloaded in a browser, and right-click → Open no longer gets past it. How to open it — Open Anyway in System Settings, or a Terminal command — is in the download card. The one-line install does not ask.
According to the project's documentation, the launcher for these systems is built and unit-tested but has not yet run on real machines.
The agent's commands run as your user, and policy rules stand between them and your files. If you want a container boundary, choose Docker.
Requests and data go to the provider you choose, and you pay it directly. You set the daily cap during setup.