Your personal
chief of staff.
An AI assistant that lives on your desktop — remembers everything, manages your workflows, and works in the background while you focus on what matters.
Intelligence that actually helps.
Not another chat window. Ori remembers who you are, connects to your world, and works in the background — all while keeping your data completely private.
Persistent Memory
Tell Ori something once and it remembers forever. Preferences, projects, conventions — carried across every conversation.
Skill Tree Routing
Queries are matched to the right tools via a hierarchical graph. Expert-level responses without any setup.
Ambient Intelligence
Background cycles check your connected services, fire reminders, and surface only what matters — like a chief of staff.
Reminders & Schedules
"Remind me in 5 minutes" or "check PRs every morning". Full CRUD — create, list, update, cancel — all through conversation.
Execution Plans
Complex tasks become phased plans with live progress tracking. Pause, resume, reorder — the agent adapts mid-execution.
Service Connectors
GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion — Ori reads your PRs, drafts emails, checks your schedule via MCP.
Computer Use
Ori can see your screen, click, type, scroll — automate anything visual on your desktop, hands-free.
Built-in Terminal
A real PTY terminal with multiple tabs. When Ori runs commands, output streams live into the chat.
Live File Preview
Proposed changes render as reviewable artifacts. Monaco editor, side-by-side diff, live HTML sandbox.
Three layers of intelligence.
Thread conversations, background ambient cycles, and intelligent tool routing — all running the same agent pipeline.
You talk.
Type naturally. Ori's Skill Tree routes your query to the right domain — code, web, OS, services — and picks the best tools.
Ori remembers.
Your preferences, projects, and patterns are stored locally in the Neural Context Fabric. Every conversation builds on the last — no repetition.
Ori works in the background.
The ambient system checks your connected services, fires scheduled reminders, and surfaces only what matters — like a chief of staff who never sleeps.
How Ori compares.
There are great AI tools out there. Here's what makes Ori different.
| Feature |  Ori | Claude Desktop | ChatGPT Desktop | Open Claw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free & open source | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Data stays on your machine | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| No subscription required | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Choose your own AI model | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Run fully offline (Ollama) | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Persistent memory | ✓ | ✓ | Paid | ✓ |
| Automatic tool routing | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Ambient background intelligence | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Installable community skills | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Scheduled background tasks | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-phase execution plans | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Native desktop notifications | ✓ | — | Limited | Partial |
| Embedded terminal | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Computer use (screen control) | ✓ | Via MCP | Paid | ✓ |
| Live file preview & diff | ✓ | Partial | — | — |
| Service connectors (GitHub, etc.) | ✓ | Via MCP | Paid | ✓ |
All of these are great products. Ori takes a different approach: your data stays on your machine, you choose your model, and the whole thing is open source. Comparison accurate as of March 2026.
Install new skills.
One click.
Want Ori to be better at writing emails? Or analyzing data? Just install a skill. Browse the catalog in Settings, click Install, and the skill is live — no restart, no coding, no setup.
Skills are simple instruction files that teach Ori new expertise. Anyone can create and share them — it's as easy as writing a document and opening a PR.
Browse the registry on GitHubYour digital life.
One place.
Connect the tools you already use — GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion — and Ori can read your PRs, draft replies, check your schedule, and more.
Ready in 30 seconds.
Download, add your API key (or use Ollama), and start talking.