Extension-first
Commands, tools, pages, panels, and workflows live in extensions.
A desktop app for AI agents that keep working
Neon Pilot is a local macOS workspace where you chat with an agent, give it files and tools, let it run background work, and keep the results across sessions.
Use it for code, docs, research, automation, and custom workflows that should become part of your agent environment.
Quick install
or download the latest release
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/patleeman/neon-pilot/master/install.sh | bash -s -- --install-cli --bootstrap
Daemon-backed
Automations, persisted runs, follow-ups, and scheduled work keep moving.
Knowledge-aware
Use files, instruction layers, skills, projects, and synced knowledge as context.
What you can do
Start with a conversation. Grow into a workspace.
Ask the agent to work
Start a conversation, attach files or folders, and ask Neon Pilot to inspect code, draft docs, debug problems, or plan work.
Let work continue
Use background runs, follow-ups, automations, and deferred resumes when a task should keep moving after one reply.
Keep reusable context
Connect knowledge, instruction files, skills, project notes, and previous conversations so future turns have memory.
Add capabilities
Install extensions or ask the agent to build one when you need a new tool, page, command, integration, or workflow.
You ask for a capability
9:41 AM
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Neon Pilot turns it into an extension
- Pick the right extension surface
- Add command palette actions
- Register a reusable agent tool
- Wire results into the transcript
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It builds, tests, and wires it in
- Created: ci-triage extension
- Added: paste/log attachment flow
- Built: parser and summary action
- Tests: tool result rendering
- Docs: workflow usage
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It becomes reusable
CI triage ready
Triage failed CI CommandAnalyze logs from the palette, composer, or agent toolbelt.
Extension-first
Neon Pilot keeps core small. Product workflows become system or user extensions with manifests, commands, tools, UI, settings, and docs.
Learn more →Background work
Daemon-backed automations, persisted runs, subagents, scheduled tasks, deferred resumes, and follow-ups keep work durable across restarts.
Learn more →Knowledge and context
Attach files, folders, generated context, instruction files, skills, and git-backed knowledge so agents can carry history.
Learn more →
Self-extension lifecycle
Ask for a feature. Keep the capability.
Neon Pilot is more than a coding agent in a chat box. When your workflow changes, the capability can become a real extension: command-backed, documented, testable, and available again next time.
Features you can ask it to build
- “Add a settings page for my team’s defaults.”
- “Create a release checklist for this repo.”
- “Build a workflow that triages failed CI logs.”
- “Turn this recurring process into a reusable skill.”
- “Add a local tool for cleaning stale branches.”
Runtime capabilities
- Persisted conversations, branches, and transcripts
- Daemon-backed automations and scheduled tasks
- Artifacts, telemetry, and activity surfaces
- Extension host APIs for tools, commands, and pages
Durable runtime
Give your agent a real workspace.
Conversations, runs, automations, command surfaces, model settings, and extension services all share the same local desktop runtime instead of disappearing when a single response ends.
Context and knowledge
Bring the right memory into the turn.
Use the composer, mentions, attached files, generated context, projects, skills, and git-backed knowledge base sync to make each conversation aware of the work around it.
Ready to make Neon Pilot your own?
Fully open source under MIT. Available on macOS today.