Transparent execution
Follow streaming text, thinking, tools, output, approvals, questions, plans, and recovery instead of watching a generic spinner.
Open source · local first · beta
See the work.
Keep control.
Nerve is a transparent desktop coding harness with the focus of a small agent and the workflow of a complete workbench. It runs with your local projects and keeps messages, reasoning, tool calls, approvals, tasks, and changes visible.
npx @nervekit/desktopNode.js 24+
Built for understandable agency
A focused agent inside a real project workbench
Control that stays live
Change model, thinking level, coding or planning mode, and permission level. Updated controls apply to subsequent work.
Local project ownership
The desktop app owns a loopback daemon by default and stores Nerve state on your machine. Network features remain explicit.
One continuous workflow
Direct the agent. Review the evidence. Ship deliberately.
- Open a project. Organize conversations, files, context, notes, Git, pull requests, and tasks in one navigable shell.
- Choose authority. Work read-only, supervised, or autonomous, with a separate planning mode and visible review gates.
- Stay in the loop. Queue a correction, answer a question, inspect a diff, continue from failure, or branch from history.
- Use the right capability. Enable optional Web, Python, Jira, Confluence, skills, and read-only Explore sub-agents.
More than a chat window
The everyday mechanics are already here
ConversationsSearch, tabs, history graphs, branches, editing, compaction, retries, and exports.ComposerCommands, project path completion, queued prompts, clipboard images, voice, and context usage.Git & GitHubChanges, branches, staging, sync, pull request checks, files, checkout, and merge.Tasks & ExploreSupervised long-running processes and isolated parallel read-only research.ModelsAPI keys, supported OAuth subscriptions, scoped defaults, custom endpoints, and thinking levels.Desktop & browserElectron by default, plus opt-in PWA, mobile LAN HTTPS, and remote-daemon connections.
Local-first topology
Your workbench talks to your daemon, not a hosted Nerve service.
Nerve stores application state under ~/.nerve by default. The daemon connects outward only when your selected model, enabled integration, Git remote, or requested tool needs it.
YouDesktop or browser
→Nerve daemonLoopback by default
→Your projectPlus chosen providers
Apache-2.0 · Linux, Windows 11, macOS
Start with one command.
Nerve is beta software distributed through npm. Signed and notarized native installers are not currently part of the release path.