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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- 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.
- 26 September 2026Eighteen months of Kowalski: an architecture that kept getting smallerFrom a weekend Ollama wrapper to one binary that answers questions about your spreadsheets: eighteen months of diagrams, and why almost every good change removed something.
- 12 July 2025Beyond Chat History: Building Human-Like Memory for AI Agents in
kowalski-coreWorking, episodic and semantic memory for agents in Rust, and why the stack ended up on SQLite. - 5 July 2025Your Agent Is Only as Good as Its Tools: A Guide to Crafting High-Quality Instruments for AIAn agent is only as good as its tools: what makes a tool easy for a model to use correctly.