Bees is public: a free desktop app that runs a team of AI agents on your computer

Bees went public today. It's a free, open source desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs a team of AI agents on your own computer, instead of one assistant in a single chat window.

You describe an outcome in plain language, in the What would you like to achieve? box on Home. Bees turns it into stages on a shared board. Agents work through those stages, and a separate reviewer agent checks each result before the work moves on.

A small example from the README: ask it to browse Hacker News and give you a table of the current stories, grouped into news, Show HN and Ask HN. Bees plans the stages, the agents do the browsing and sorting, the reviewer checks the table, and the finished result lands in that run.

Bees doesn't sell you a model. Under Settings, AI connections you connect one of these:

You can set a model per agent or one default for everything.

The Mac build is signed and notarized. The Windows and Linux builds aren't code signed yet, so Windows shows a SmartScreen warning. You need 8 GB of memory for a cloud model, or 16 GB for a local one, plus 15 GB of free disk.

Two of us built this. If you've used a multi-agent tool before, I'd like to hear what made you trust it, or what made you stop.