What Cockpit does

Nine things, in plain words. The technical name is in small print under each, for those who want it.

Looking for the long technical list? Every feature, in detail.

hub Talk to any AI, in one place

Every AI you use, side by side. Ask one, several, or all of them at once.

Your AIs in one strip

All your AIs side by side; pick one or several for each question.

Technically: Agent cards

One, chain, all, or a plan

Ask one AI, chain several, ask all at once, or let one plan the work.

Technically: Single, Pipeline, Broadcast and Plan modes

Answers as they are written

Watch the answer arrive word by word.

Technically: Streaming

Helpers for every message

A style strip, history, proposals, a summary and a translate button.

Technically: Prompt tools

Files and pictures

Drop in a file or paste a picture; Cockpit hands it to an AI that can read it.

Technically: Attachments, image routing

A memory for each chat

Each chat keeps its own history and notes, so a new chat never costs you the old.

Technically: Per-chat history

folder_special Projects that know what they are

Tell Cockpit what you are working on, and it brings the right helpers.

49 kinds of project

Writing, Translation, Study, Cooking, Collections, Travel, Bookkeeping, Music, Photos, Podcast and more, each with its own helper tools.

Technically: Project kinds

Teach it a new kind

Make your own kind in a minute: a name, an icon, a standing note and the tools you want.

Technically: Kind wizard

A note it never forgets

Say once how you like things done in this project; every chat in it follows.

Technically: Standing note

Tools that check, not guess

Where a program can judge the result (a compiler, a validator), the program decides, not the AI.

Technically: Kind tools

menu_book Ask your own documents and books

Search your files by words or by meaning, and get answers that say where they came from.

Ask your documents

Your own files, searched by words or meaning; the answer points at its source.

Technically: Retrieval, full-text and embeddings

A whole library

Index books and big collections and ask them questions, on your computer.

Technically: Bookshelf

Scanned and picture-heavy PDFs

Read page by page with a vision model.

Technically: PDF vision

Notes that connect

Notes linked to your search, and a notepad that works on a folder.

Technically: Notes, notepad

palette Make things

Pictures, speech, translations, subtitles, scores, photos and documents, made on your machine.

Translate text and files

Between many languages, keeping code, links and placeholders intact.

Technically: Translation

Pictures, video and voices

Generated locally; each picture keeps its recipe so you can redo it.

Technically: Image, video and speech generation

Subtitles and podcasts

Transcribe, subtitle, re-time, clean and tag.

Technically: Transcription, subtitling

Sheet music, both ways

Write scores as text, hear and see them, import from other notation programs.

Technically: LilyPond tools

Photo folders

Check, clean hidden data, resize and find duplicates.

Technically: Photo tools

Letters, reports, decks, books

Documents, slides, e-books and papers: built, then checked.

Technically: Document tools

flight Let it fly the task

Type a goal. Cockpit plans it, does it step by step, and picks up again after a crash.

Autopilot Cruise

State a goal; it plans, runs the steps, and hands back the result. You clear the one critical moment.

Technically: Durable workflows

Agents that help each other

Your agents can see each other, vote on answers and hand work on.

Technically: AutoCognition

Ready-made recipes

Multi-agent recipes you can run in one click: 150 free, more with an account.

Technically: Power Combos

Say who is best at what

Tell Cockpit once which AI suits which job; it routes the work.

Technically: Delegation

One-click prompts

A row of buttons runs a saved prompt on what you copied: proofread, summarise, make it polite. From a hotkey, a launcher or the command line too.

Technically: Power Buttons

lock Free and private by design

Run AI on your own computer, use free cloud models, and spend only what you choose.

AI on your own computer

Cockpit tells you what your hardware can run, and sets it up.

Technically: Local models (Ollama)

Free cloud models

A list of free cloud AIs with a rotation that moves on when one runs out.

Technically: Free workers cascade

Web-page helpers (Labs)

Use some AI sites through their own pages; you sign in yourself. These depend on third-party sites and can break when a site changes.

Technically: Web page workers

A cap on what you spend

Paid AI only with your consent, a monthly cap and a live meter.

Technically: Spend caps and usage meter

Models and prices stay current

An optional, signed update adds new models and prices without a new version.

Technically: Signed catalog feed

Nothing leaves unless you ask

What stays on your computer, what can leave, and when, in plain words.

Technically: Privacy

desktop_windows Your desktop, your way

A real program with its own window, not a browser tab.

Its own window

Close it and it exits properly; press Ctrl+Alt+C to summon it from anywhere.

Technically: Native window, tray, hotkey

A built-in browser

A browser inside Cockpit; minimised windows wait as chips in the status bar.

Technically: Cockpit Browser

36 themes

Including colour-blind-safe sets.

Technically: Themes

Your language

Cockpit speaks English and a growing list of other languages, right-to-left ones included; anyone can add one.

Technically: Language packs

Panels where you want them

Put any panel in its own window, on another screen.

Technically: Detachable panels

Everything beside the chat

Terminal, files, tasks and a notepad, in the same window.

Technically: Panels

verified_user Keep it current and safe

Back everything up, check nothing was damaged, and keep your settings if you move.

Backup and restore

One archive of everything; try a restore into a scratch folder first.

Technically: Backup

Is my install intact?

Tells you if a file changed or got damaged.

Technically: Integrity check

A free account, if you want one

Recovery after a reinstall, and the community Marketplace. Skip it with the Stand-alone edition.

Technically: Accounts and recovery