AI Chat — talk to your files
Chat about your files through the coding-agent CLIs already installed on your machine — attach files or a folder, pick an agent, and keep going.
AI Chat lets you talk about your files through a coding-agent CLI that's already installed on this machine — attach the files, ask in plain language, and the agent reads, summarises or edits them on disk. There is no per-chat charge and no Pro gate; the AI account behind your CLI is what answers.
What it is
The AI Chat page is a chat window that hands your files to a locally installed agent CLI — Claude Code, Grok, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, Cline, Amp, Qwen or Aider — with "Auto" picking a detected one for you. Attach files or choose a folder, then ask: summarise this document, clean up this folder's filenames, explain what this config does.
Conversations are saved in the left rail so you can return to them, and + New chat starts a fresh one. When the agent creates or edits files, they show up as cards in the thread with Reveal Folder and Open with 1FileTool actions — so a "rename all of these" request ends in real files you can inspect, not a text description of what it would have done.
Honest privacy picture
The agent CLI runs on your machine and reads files locally — but whatever you discuss is processed by whichever AI provider that CLI talks to. If your CLI is backed by a cloud model, the file contents you chat about go to that provider under its terms; a CLI pointed at a local model keeps everything on-device. The app itself adds no upload — it is the agent's own plumbing that decides where prompts go. For work that must stay fully local, pair AI Chat with a local-model CLI, or use the MCP access path, which only sends tool instructions, not files.
Getting set up
- No CLI installed? The page shows a banner — install Claude Code, Grok, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini or another supported CLI, then rescan from Settings › AI Access. The settings pane can also install a managed copy of OpenCode for you.
- Pick an agent. The agent dropdown lists detected CLIs (and their versions); leave it on Auto to let the app choose, and set a default in Settings.
- Pick a model. The "Default model" dropdown next to the agent selector follows whatever the agent exposes — blank means its own default.
- Attach and ask. Buttons for Attach files and Choose a folder, or drag files straight onto the thread; attachments appear as chips you can remove before sending.
Where it fits
AI Chat is for open-ended work — "what's in this contract", "rename these photos by date taken". For structured repeatability, the same files can go through Workflow Recipes or Folder Monitor instead; for driving those tools from your own terminal, see AI access over MCP.