The AI Agent That Eats 300 MB and Your To-Do List

What it does Skales is a cross-platform desktop application that acts as a persistent AI agent. You type a goal—like building a trading bot or managing a WordPress site—and it plans the steps, executes them in the background with the chat window closed, and resumes where it left off when you return. It can control your screen, browse the web, write and test code in a three-panel IDE, generate images and video, and even organize sub-agents into departments with a “CEO” agent that routes work.

The interesting bit The project treats your desktop as the operating system for an AI workforce rather than a chat interface. It pairs with an Android phone over an encrypted relay so your pocket device inherits all 139+ desktop tools, and it imports SKILL.md files from Claude Code and Cursor so you aren’t locked into yet another silo.

Key highlights

• Runs natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android with no Docker or terminal required; claims ~300 MB RAM usage.
• Supports 15+ AI providers including local Ollama, and works offline with your own keys.
• Background goals run autonomously, can repeat on schedules, and fold learnings into persistent memory.
• Built-in migration importer for ChatGPT, Claude, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent histories.
• Multi-agent “Organizations” let you build AI teams with department heads and export the setup as a Company Pack.

Caveats

• Licensed under BSL 1.1, so it is source-available but not open source.
• Windows binaries are not yet code-signed; macOS binaries carry Apple Developer ID signing.
• iOS support is listed as “soon”; Android is live on Google Play.

Verdict Worth a look if you want an autonomous agent that actually lives on your hardware instead of a rented GPU somewhere. Skip it if you need a fully open-source stack or a simple, single-purpose automation tool.