Alpha coming soon · macOS

Agentic productivity at lightning speed

Volt closes the gap between agents and real productivity. It gives your agents an OS level framework to build, deploy and run AI powered apps and scripts. Everything is just a keystroke away.

Coming soon to macOS · Apple silicon

What is Volt?

Not an app.
A framework.

Volt is an AI native OS level runtime that lives in your menu bar. It turns plain TypeScript files into automations, scheduled tasks, hotkeys and instant interfaces. Each one a keystroke away. The Essentials scripts you reach for every day are already built. You can open, read, fork and shape them to exactly how you work. Nothing is a black box.

  • One file, one command: save a .ts and it's live, no build, no restart
  • Any trigger: hotkey, cron schedule, file watch or system event
  • A fully typed SDK over the whole Mac an automation ecosystem
  • Fork the Essentials: every built-in is open code you can adapt
  • Local-first: runs on your hardware, you have control over your data and privacy
Essentials
Extensions

Install extensions or fork them.

The extensions hub ships 20+ extensions already built for you. Install one or fork it into your own. And the library keeps growing every day.

Spotlight extensions
Browser

Google Chrome

Control tabs, read the page, and automate the web.

Install Fork
Issue tracking

Linear

File issues and search your backlog from the launcher.

Install Fork
Editor

VS Code

Jump to projects, run commands, and open files in a keystroke.

Install Fork
Packages

Homebrew

Search, install, and upgrade formulae without a terminal.

Install Fork

AI native

Not bolted on. Built into the runtime.

A built-in agent, native MCP, and prompts as first-class primitives running on your keys or ours. In Volt, AI isn't a chat window stapled to the side. It's wired into the same SDK and OS runtime your scripts already use.

— the built-in agent

purpose-built for the volt sdk

control

An agent built on purpose for Volt. It speaks all 180+ SDK calls, so it can drive your Mac and ship you new apps as readable TypeScript. Not a chatbot, an operator wired into the OS runtime.

drives the os 180+ sdk calls writes apps

A built-in MCP server

drive volt from any agent

Volt exposes its own MCP server, so any agent can reach the whole SDK and run your scripts as tools. Use volt(0) — or bring your own.

  • built in
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • opencode
  • + pi, and any MCP client

Bring your own key

hosted or bring your own

Use Volt's hosted AI out of the box or bring your own provider. Your keys, your spend, your data.

Volt AI Anthropic OpenAI Local
Hosted by Volt · no key needed active

Prompts as a primitive

ai commands as .prompt files

Drop a .prompt file and it's a command same triggers, same launcher, same hotkeys as your scripts. AI building blocks you can version, fork and share.

hotkey launcher any model
reply-draft.prompt
// Name: Reply Draft
// Shortcut: cmd+shift+r
// Model: claude-opus-4-8
Draft a reply to the selection.
Match my tone. Keep it under
120 words. Plain text only.
The SDK

One import away 180+ typed operations across the whole machine.

Private by design

Your machine. Your data. Your keys.

Volt runs entirely on your Mac by default. Scripts execute locally, history lives in a local SQLite database, and secrets stay in the Keychain. Point AI at your own provider keys and drive Volt with your own agent over MCP, and nothing ever leaves your machine. A Volt account, hosted Volt AI and telemetry are each opt-in and ship off turn one on and only then does that one thing route through Volt.

On your Mac

always, by default
  • Scripts run on your hardware just TypeScript you can read
  • History in a local SQLite database
  • Secrets in the macOS Keychain
  • AI on your own provider keys (BYOK)
  • Driven by your own agent over MCP — or none at all

Through Volt

only if you opt in
  • Volt account — sync & billing off
  • Volt AI — hosted inference, billed by usage off
  • volt(0) — built-in agent needs a subscription off
  • Telemetry — accepted at onboarding off

Telemetry is opt-in at onboarding and every switch is reversible in Settings. Replace Volt AI with your provider and volt(0) with your agent at any time.

Strike first.

Volt is almost here. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment it ships.

Coming soon to macOS · Apple silicon

FAQ

Asked before you got here.

Why does it ask for so many permissions?

Because Volt hands your scripts the whole Mac global shortcuts, window control, typing on your behalf, screenshot and file indexing. Each macOS permission unlocks one of those powers and none are mandatory. Skip any one and the only thing that breaks is the scripts that needed it. Everything else keeps working. You decide how much of the SDK to switch on.

#faq-permissions

Does it work on Intel Macs?

Not for now. The alpha is built and tested on Apple silicon only. Intel support is planned for the general release until then we'd rather say so up front than let you download and find out.

#faq-intel

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. By default everything clipboard history, scripts, all of it stays in a local database on your Mac and never leaves. Two opt-ins can change that, and only if you turn them on: anonymous telemetry, and sync, which backups your scripts up to the cloud. Both ship off.

#faq-data

How is this different from Raycast?

Raycast is a launcher you extend through its store and extension API. Volt is a scripting runtime: one TypeScript file in ~/.volt/scripts is the whole app trigger, logic and UI. They coexist happily. Volt covers the things a launcher can't, like cron jobs, file watchers and scripts that drive other apps.

#faq-raycast

Can I use my own API keys or local models?

Always. Hosted Volt AI is the zero-setup default, but bring your own and it takes over: keys live in your Keychain and ai.* calls go straight from your Mac to the provider you choose. Point it at a local endpoint Ollama, LM Studio and nothing leaves the machine at all.

#faq-keys

What does it cost?

Volt itself is free. You only pay for the hosted extras syncing and backing up your scripts, volt(0) (the built-in agent) and Volt AI. Run it with all three off and you’ll never see a bill.

#faq-price