Show HN: AIConsole, an Open-Source Desktop AI Editor to Customize Your Workflow

[mcielecki]

https://aiconsole.ai

Hey HN!

I was frustrated with feeling like an assistant to most AI systems and chats that I used. All I wanted was to have a fully controllable AI System that will potentially do everything for me, and that I can easily teach to do new things and get my context without constant copy and pasting.

This is why, together with my team, I built AIConsole, an open-source desktop AI editor that allows you to create your own AI toolset. Giving you the power of AI personalization right on your local machine.

Imagine a desktop app that can schedule your meetings, automate responses, craft unique content, code snippets, or even edit code – all while respecting your privacy and preferences.

What does it do?

* Runs code locally - it can fully operate within your local environment with the tasks your machine can execute – it can do everything that is accessible from your machine.

* Gets better the more you put into it - teach it once to perform a task and AIConsole retains the skill indefinitely.

* Use your notes to show AI how to complete and automate tasks.

* Expert level prompt engineering - AIConsole leverages a multi-agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system not based on a vector database, akin to expert prompt engineering.

* Fully open-sourced – This software maintains privacy and only uses dedicated LLM apis with well known privacy policies - and you can verify that yourself

* Share and collaborate on your tools with the community - you can create and share your domain-specific AI tool using Github, Google Drive etc.

While we are at an early stage, we have a stable desktop application, and are working on sharing actual use-cases and further improving the tooling around it.

We’ve got a lot planned on our roadmap, including a full IDE-like experience, generative interfaces, and open source LLMs support.

Get it here: https://aiconsole.ai

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/gYPJqFC7hF

Repository: https://github.com/10clouds/aiconsole

Newsletter: https://cielecki.substack.com/

My Twitter: twitter.com/mcielecki

Manifesto: https://cielecki.substack.com/p/say-goodbye-to-tech-giants

I would love to hear your feedback.

[mwszola]

The tool looks great! Wanted to test this out and I did the calendar thing just as in the demo - adding a new note "My calendar - Apple Calendar on my local device" and it created the new event for me according to the instructions. Nice automation, really exciting!

[android521]

I saw Mac(Intel). Can i use it with Max(M2)? Edit: i was able to download and use it.But i got the 'Invalid Open AI API key' error even though i gave the correct key. But from openai playground chat, it seems like i only have access to 3.5 model. was this the cause of error? Is it possible to add support for 3.5 model?

[michalklujszo → android521]

There is a M2 version you can download, should be one of the menu elements.

It does require GPT-4 API access, right now if you have just 3.5 access there will be an error.

We have adding open source models long term in our roadmap

[michalklujszo]

I like the ability to easily store new content/guides that the tool can instantly use, I prefer it from the way it works with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Also quite neat feature that AIConsole chooses the specific tool/prompt for the task... somewhat similar to plugins with chatgpt but under your control and fully customizable

[Odene]

I wonder if you could make it work with Google Analytics 4? Create a prompt that will get data and create a dashboard?

[mritchie712 → Odene]

Most API's (e.g. Stripe, Shopify, Hubspot, GA4, etc.) limit the amount of data you can get in one call. They also have rate limits. This means you can't pull all your data from them quickly (e.g. you couldn't pull all your stripe customers in a single API call).

You'd likely need to set up ETL to get this to work reliably.

PS - If you're interested in this sort of thing (an AI data assistant), that's exactly what we do at https://www.definite.app/. We offer a complete data stack + AI data assistant.

[mcielecki → Odene]

Yes, the general principle of it is that you ask it to perform a task and then add materials that help guide it until it gets those tasks done. Once it works it will work forever (or until the APIs change :P)

Google Analytics can be accessed via API, so you can both create a normal text note hinting on what code could access it or you could create Python API material.

[Odene → mcielecki]

This is AWESOME. Gonne check it out tonight.

[zuwima → Odene]

that would make my life easier, any info?

[smcleod]

Looks like it has a lot of potential. Does it integrate with Ollama or does it run its own model server?

[michalklujszo → smcleod]

Right now it uses GPT-4 API, ollama integration is in the roadmap and would then allow for a fully local and controlled deployment

[michalklujszo → smcleod]

Thanks for the good words!

[leeevind]

Amazing stuff! It's out-of-the-box Hive creation and management instrument. Love this!!!

[karleriksson]

I like the demo video, mind sharing what tool you used to create it?

[mcielecki → karleriksson]

After Effects

[yelowhite]

Nice one, the AI agents are actually communicating with each other

[globartek]

@mcielecki can it be connected to CodeLama or Claude 2?

[mcielecki → globartek]

This is on our release schedule.

[psychoactive → mcielecki]

Lama 70b please!!!

[michalklujszo → psychoactive]

other LLMs are definitely on our roadmap. Being able to run it fully locally would be awesome long term!

[olabienas]

Looks like a tool with a huge potential!

[xuchen]

wow nice piece, congratulations on launching this! I'm amazed how it works cross-platform!

[michalklujszo → xuchen]

Electron is quite good for such use cases! Thanks!

[KodakKojak]

Looks impressive!

[dwc10]

looks dope!