Skales: Desktop AI Agent with Ollama Support, 300MB Idle RAM
Skales is a desktop AI agent built as a native Electron app with .exe installers for Windows and .dmg for macOS. The creator, a designer with two years of LLM experience, developed it after struggling with Docker and terminal commands for local AI setup, aiming to create something accessible to non-technical users like family members.
Key Features
- Works with Ollama for fully local inference, or any cloud provider including OpenRouter, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Mistral, and DeepSeek (BYOK)
- ReAct autopilot with bi-temporal memory
- Browser automation via Playwright
- Native integrations: Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Google Calendar
- Multi-agent group chat where different models debate topics
- Desktop buddy that sits on screen when minimized (similar to Clippy) for task assignment without switching windows
- Built-in killswitch and website/search blacklists for security
- ~300MB idle RAM usage
- All data stored locally in ~/.skales-data
Technical Details
The app is built with Electron + Next.js + Node.js. It's source-available under BSL-1.1 license, free for personal use, with the creator noting they "didn't want a big company to fork it and commercially resell it." The GitHub repository is at github.com/skalesapp/skales.
The creator reports that their 60+ year old mother got it running instantly, and their 6-year-old used the built-in coding skill to create a retro game (one level of Super Mario).
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