The dock is ChatOSS's taskbar — every section in it is an app, and each one is pluggable. The OS ships with its apps the way macOS ships with Finder: they're built in, they're first-class, and — with .aip apps — you can extend the dock with your own.
Code
An agentic coding workspace over a project folder: a file tree, an editor with diffs, and a real interactive terminal, driven by a coding AI agent. Pick a mode per conversation:
- Ask and Plan — investigate without touching your files: read, search, run read-only commands, and report back.
- Agent — edits with command approval.
- Auto — the full toolset run autonomously: shell commands the OS judges non-destructive are approved automatically, and it never pauses to ask.
- Orchestrate — delegate work to sub-agents.
The agent reads, searches, edits, runs tests, commits, and opens pull requests for you.
Create
The fastest way to build a .aip app: a manifest form that maps directly to app.json, a file editor, and a live sandboxed preview — the same runtime an installed app uses. When it works, publish the app straight into your dock or export the .aip file.
Chat
A private streaming chat with your local and cloud models. Switch models mid-conversation, no restart.
Kanban
Projects and boards you manage by hand or through an in-app AI agent that creates and edits cards, labels, subtasks, and comments with tool calls — and breaks complex work into a live, step-by-step checklist.
Connect
Wire MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers into ChatOSS — featured one-click connectors (GitHub, Stripe, Vercel, Supabase) plus custom HTTP and stdio servers. Once connected and enabled, a server's tools are available to the AI in every app.
Models
Browse, compare, and save models — installed local Ollama models and the cloud catalog — so your favorite models are always in the picker.
Apps
The app manager: install and run .aip apps, manage dock visibility and per-app permissions, export or remove installed apps. This is where you drop a .aip file to install it, and where the Permissions panel lives for every installed app.
Drive
ChatOSS-managed storage: your own containers, files written by apps, and the user's cloud-backup settings (any S3-compatible bucket).
Docs
The in-app documentation — how the OS works and how to build and publish .aip apps, centered on an interactive example app you can install and study. These web docs mirror it.