Silky

01

What Silky is

Silky is a personal AI agent that runs on your own Windows machine. It keeps what you tell it in notes stored on your disk, and it talks to model providers through API keys you supply yourself.

Nothing here publishes or shares your data. When Silky touches your files, the web, or your computer, it shows you the action first and waits for your approval.

02

Features

• Memory that stays home Long-term notes and conversation context live in files on your own machine — not on a server somewhere. Notes, memory, and chat history sit in plain files in Silky's own folder on your disk. Open them, back them up, move them — they're yours, in the open, not locked in a cloud account.
• Bring your own key Plug in an API key for the model provider you prefer and switch providers from a config file. Thirteen built-in provider presets — OpenAI, Anthropic, Z.ai/GLM, Together, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, and more — or run a local model with Ollama and no key at all. Keys are stored as yours, referenced by name, never shared between machines.
• Tools that ask permission Files, web access, reminders, and computer control are all there — and every action asks you before it happens. Reading is free; acting asks first. File writes, web fetches (which refuse local-network and cloud-metadata addresses), and code edits all go through an approval card. Nothing runs silently in the background.
• Code mode Point Silky at a project folder and it can read, edit, and run the code there — with you approving each change. Every edit shows as a colored diff — green added, red removed, with +N −M counts per file and a rollup per turn — before you approve it. Edits are journaled, so a change you regret can be undone.
• Computer control, supervised Silky can drive your mouse and keyboard — open apps, click, type — while you watch. It only drives while you're sitting there, by design. One global hotkey — Ctrl+Alt+Esc — kills its movement instantly, from anywhere. In chat you can allow a whole session's driving up front; the hotkey still outranks everything.
• Skills — teach it playbooks Drop in a markdown playbook and Silky learns a new routine — call it with /name. A skill is just a text file of instructions: your house style, your checklist, your workflow. Skills reload the moment you edit them, no restart, and skills written for other tools in the same markdown format work as-is.
• Lightweight, and it's really yours No account, no subscription, no installer phoning home — Silky runs on modest hardware and minds its own business. Built to run happily on an everyday laptop. The whole app is one portable folder, and everything it remembers lives in your own data folder — delete the folder and it's gone; copy it and it travels.

03

How it works

1. Download

   Get the installer for Windows.

2. Add your own key

   Paste in an API key from the model provider you already use.

3. Talk to it

   Chat, take notes, set reminders, or open a project in code mode.

Prefer the terminal? Silky also runs as a CLI — same agent, quicker strikes.