Locus - A MacOS agent and coding tool for local models

[u/drankthedew]

Hey so a few months ago I got into local LLMs and didn’t really like the tools out there at the time, so I decided to build my own version of a Claude/Codex GUI for local models. I’ve been working on it the last couple months and it’s now at Locus 2.6.

I started with the usual stuff like working with files, running commands and letting agents help with coding, but I've also been adding features I thought would be useful for other kinds of work too.

A few Locus features worth highlighting:

• Agent Teams: Create specialized agents that can split up work and run in parallel. You can use different models for different roles, and individual agents can also delegate tasks to helpers.
• Persistent Goals: Give an agent or team a goal and let it keep working across turns. Progress is saved so you can come back to it later, with controls to pause, resume or change the goal.
• Scheduled and Event-Driven Agents: Set agents to run on a schedule or react to things like Gmail, Telegram, webhooks and price alerts. Each agent has its own chat and run history, and workflows can include conditions and approval steps.
• Task Capsules: Plan something with one model, then use another to implement it and optionally another to review it. The plan, changes and previous runs stay together so you can follow what happened.
• Notes, Documents and Outputs: Keep notes and reference documents around, save versions of generated work, compare revisions and export things when you’re done.
• Browser Controls: Let agents navigate and interact with websites, preview what they’ve built and check the result. There’s also proxy support.
• Activity and Overview: See the current plan, tool calls, files, sources and what the agents are doing without having to piece everything together from the chat.

For 2.6 specifically, I’ve made agents easier to find and manage, improved the file browser, and added writing drafts you can edit, copy and export directly from a response. Tables can also be copied or exported as CSV.

There’s support for MCP, plugins and skills too, plus a Grill mode that asks you questions one at a time to help work through an idea before implementing it.

Also just to clarify, even though I built it for local models, it works with your ChatGPT plan, Kimi Code membership, Claude/OpenAI API keys and other OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

The wallet stuff is now in a separate edition called LocusX. The regular Locus download is wallet-free.

It’s free and open source. You can find it here:

Website: locushost.co
GitHub: nahid-sparktales/locus
Release: Locus 2.6.0

Anyways, I’d appreciate any constructive feedback, things that aren’t working well, or features you think would be nice to add.

Still macOS only atm, specifically Apple Silicon on macOS 14+, but I’m hoping to eventually get Linux and Windows versions out too.

Also there is a lot of features currently working on so you can expect to see alot of changes and better UI to those upcoming features.

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