Overview
StarNet is a revolutionary local-first desktop harness that transforms your machine into a vibrant, pixel-art space station where real AI agents perform tangible work. Forget simulations; StarNet brings your AI crew to life, allowing you to organize them, assign tasks, and witness their genuine execution with real models and tools. The visual interface isn't just for show – it's a live projection of runtime state, where every room represents a capability-scoped team, hallways are authorized handoff lanes, and placed objects are explicit capability grants. Design your workflow visually, and watch your agents bring it to life.
Key Features
- A Crew, Not a Chatbot: Build agents with distinct personas and capabilities. Run multiple agents concurrently, each with its own isolated workspace, memory, transcript, and bounded permissions.
- BYOK (Bring Your Own Key): Securely manage your API keys for providers like OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Keys are stored in your OS keychain, never exposed in the frontend.
- Seamless Messaging Integration: Connect your agents to Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or Matrix to interact with your station from any device.
- Night Shift for Continuous Work: Let agents work through the night with explicit, adjustable leash controls, ensuring all actions are logged and reviewable.
- Robust Task Management: Utilize pre-built "Recipes" for complex multi-step tasks, grant reusable "Skills," and schedule agent actions with "cron" functionality.
- Ambiguity Resolution: "Task Briefs" convert unclear requests into precise questions with defined options, presented through connected channels, preventing silent failures.
- Tangible Deliverables: Finished work isn't lost in chat logs; it's delivered to a clearly defined OUTBOX as actual files.
- Extensible Capabilities: Connect to external services via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and OAuth for expanded agent functionality.
- Voice Integration: Utilize push-to-talk dictation for input and receive consistent audio output from your station.
- Transparent Financials: Track spending, budgets, and run history with real ledgers that persist locally.
Typical Use Cases
- Automated Workflow Orchestration: Design complex, multi-agent workflows visually within the station's pixel-art environment, from data processing to content generation.
- Personalized AI Assistant: Create a team of agents tailored to your specific needs, capable of managing communications, research, and task execution concurrently.
- Local Model Experimentation: Run and test local AI models (via Ollama) without incurring external costs, observing their performance in real-world tasks.
- Secure and Private AI Operations: Leverage the local-first architecture for sensitive tasks, ensuring your data and API keys remain on your machine.
- Development and Testing of AI Agents: Use StarNet as a robust local harness for developing and debugging AI agent behavior and integrations.
- Managed Background Task Execution: Set up agents to perform scheduled tasks or operate continuously with configurable oversight, perfect for ongoing data collection or monitoring.
