Squad // open source · MIT · macOS & Linux
Hordes of small AI agents that do real work on your machine.
Kowalski is one binary. Answer three setup questions, hand your spreadsheets, pages and documents to a horde, and get files back you can open: a report workbook, a morning brief, a note with deadlines. Your model, your files, your machine.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yarenty/kowalski/main/install.sh | bash
kowalskiThree questions to the Spreadsheet analyst on a local 7B model. The minutes it spends thinking are cut.
Horde 01
Spreadsheet analyst
Ask questions in plain words. Get report.xlsx, one sheet per question. The model writes SQL; every number comes from the query engine.
Horde 02
Morning brief
The pages you check every morning become one page: a top pick and what matters from each, with links. Runs at 7:00 on weekdays if you switch it on.
Horde 03
Folder watcher
Drop an invoice or a contract into the inbox. Get a note: what it is, the key facts, and what to do by when.
How it works
One process. Engines compute, models write.
The UI, the horde runner and the agent core run in one binary on 127.0.0.1. Tools come in over MCP, starting with tableski for SQL over spreadsheets. Steps that must be right — fetching, profiling tables, running SQL, building workbooks — use no model at all. Commands wait for your approval.
From the blog
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- 31 October 2026Kowalski 2.5: Double Click, and start things in any orderKowalski 2.5 Double Click: a signed Mac app you download, drag to Applications and open, no terminal needed. And since 2.4 Reconnect, tableski and other MCP servers can start in any order. Now on crates.io.
- 25 October 2026Meet KowalskiKowalski is a small team of AI agents that runs on your own computer: it answers questions about your spreadsheets, reads the pages you follow, files your research in your notes. What it does, how it got here in eighteen months, and how to try it.
- 27 September 2026Kowalski 2.3: Mission ControlKowalski 2.3 Mission Control: a calm home with icon tiles, every run in one list named by what you asked, ⌘K to find anything, workbooks uploaded from kowalski, and follow-up questions on the same data.
- 26 September 2026Kowalski 2.2: download it, answer three questions, send in a hordeKowalski 2.2 is out: a readable new look, five built-in hordes, download-and-run binaries for macOS and Linux, and defaults that ask before anything runs a command.
- 26 September 2026Ask your spreadsheets. Get a workbook back. No number made up.Kowalski 2.1 hands three chores to a horde of small AI agents: questions about your spreadsheets, a morning brief, and the paperwork in your inbox. The numbers come from a query engine, not from the AI.