Autowright

Make it easy to automate desktop tasks. You describe the job once and the app will run it forever.

Website: autowright.ai

Autowright is a desktop app for recurring personal automations. You describe the job in
plain words, a connected AI agent writes it as human-readable Python step scripts, you review and approve, and a
local scheduler runs those exact scripts on time. AI is used once, at authoring time.

Install

Download from autowright.ai or the
latest release:

• macOS (Apple Silicon) - DMG, Developer-ID signed and notarized, or
  brew install --cask hansololz/tap/autowright
• Windows (x64) - installer, unstable: early port, unsigned (expect a SmartScreen
  warning), and not yet tested on a wide range of machines
• Linux (x86_64) - AppImage, unstable: early port, lags behind the macOS release,
  and known to fail on Ubuntu 24.04+ (AppArmor user-namespace restriction)

macOS is the supported platform today; the Windows and Linux builds are provided for early
testers and may break between releases.

Or build from source - see §18 in SPEC.md.

Features

• Plain-words authoring and editing - the AI does the scripting, you do the deciding;
  nothing executes until you approve it.
• Use your own agent - Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or OpenCode; OpenCode can drive
  a local Ollama model for fully offline drafting.
• Real scheduling - cron with per-trigger timezones, one-shot triggers, run-on-app-start,
  and manual "Execute now". Runs even with the app closed (background service), with a
  missed-run policy for sleep and downtime.
• Versioned automations - every approved edit is a new version; drafts run in isolation
  before you promote them.
• Persistent memory with snapshots - automations keep state between runs, with automatic
  snapshots and one-click restore.
• Live execution view - per-step status, streamed logs, and full execution history.
• Menu-bar / tray surface - glance at what's running and fire jobs without opening the
  window.
• Local and file-first - automations are YAML and Python on disk, secrets stay in the OS
  secret store (Keychain / Credential Manager), and everything runs on your machine.
• Share automations - portable .autowright export/import, from the app or the CLI.
• CLI with full app parity - author automations as files, execute and follow them,
  manage secrets and triggers. Headless- and agent-friendly with explicit per-automation
  secret grants.

Planned

• Agent skill - drive Autowright straight from your agent chat session (create, edit,
  and run automations without opening the app); see skills/autowright/.
• Headless pip package - run the backend and CLI without the desktop app.
• GitHub sync - keep your automations in a repo and pull changes into the app.
• Automation & agent marketplace - browse, share, and install automations and agents
  made by others.
• More harness integrations and richer triggers - file-system changes, calendar
  events, and more.

Status

Early release, under active development. Feedback and issues are very welcome. SPEC.md is
the source of truth for the whole app; see §18 for the dev workflow.

Found a security problem? Please report it privately; see SECURITY.md.