BossConsole

🔬 The operator's console for AI agents - and the scientists who direct them

The first open-source, multi-platform harness for AI agents - an evolvable toolbox for agents and the humans they work with.

🧪 Built for enterprises, science, and research.

⚡ Natively multi-threaded - built on the JVM, not Electron - with live hot-reload and laptop-to-supercomputer scale.

Bring your own agent - Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, or OpenCode - and give it a real browser, terminal, editor, secrets, and automation. Then decide exactly what each one is allowed to touch. Run it on your own machine, hand a live terminal to your phone with a QR code, and reshape any tool - by hand or by the agent itself - while the app keeps running.

⬇ Download · 📊 Compare · ⚡ Browser benchmark · 🤖 Run an agent · 🔐 Governance · 🧰 Toolbox · 🖥️ BossTerm

Just want to download BOSS? Head to BossConsole-Releases for pre-built installers.

Built with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform, BOSS unifies an embedded browser, a blazing-fast shareable terminal, a code editor, an extensible Toolbox of plugins, and a governed MCP tool layer into one desktop workspace for complex, AI-assisted work.

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How BOSS compares

Every other AI-agent desktop app and agentic IDE - Claude Desktop, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, Cursor, and Windsurf/Devin - is closed source, and most lock you to a single vendor's model. BOSS is the first open-source, multi-platform harness in the category: Apache-2.0, cross-platform, and built to run any agent.

The deeper difference: BOSS is both the agent's home and an agent-operable app. The same MCP layer your agent uses to do work also exposes BOSS itself - its tabs, terminals, browser, editor, git, secrets, and automation - as 100+ mcp__boss__* tools. Read-only tools (list tabs, read a pane's output, tail the console, snapshot performance, inspect git) give an agent live situational awareness of the workspace; action tools let it act on what it finds. So the agent doesn't just chat about your code - it perceives the running app and drives it, carrying out multi-step tasks autonomously.

And unlike most of the field, BOSS bundles a real embedded browser - Fluck - the agent can navigate, script, and automate (browser_navigate, browser_run_js, plus record-and-replay RPA), with logins filled from the Secret Manager and never handed to the model.

It's also native, not Electron. BOSS runs on the JVM with true multithreading and hot-reloads plugins at runtime - so an agent can evolve a tool and see it live, without restarting the app - while Claude Desktop and the VS Code-fork IDEs (Antigravity, Cursor, Windsurf/Devin) run on a single-threaded JavaScript event loop.

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