Get WireCat Desktop
The app installs the tools, signs you in and gives your AI agent what it needs to use them. No terminal needed.
Download the desktop appFree and open source, for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Or connect from the command line
Copy a request for your agent: it installs the tool, helps you sign in and checks that it works.
Install tg with npm install -g @wirecat/tg-cli. Read tg setup --help, explain the steps and allow about five minutes, then help me run tg personal setup (personal is a profile name; any name works). Run tg personal doctor and suggest next steps. Before installation, check Node.js 22.19+ (22.x) or 24+ and npm; help me install them if needed. At the end, offer to install the tg skill for my agent.
npm install -g @wirecat/tg-cli && tg skill install --for allThe request runs in your agent. Signing in adds a device to your account.
Measurements and comparisons with the setup and the script that produced them.
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Third-party memory engines, WireCat Memo and a plain folder of files on the same questions. What the agent answers, which record it cites and what it costs, plus the public LifeBench.
What WireCat is, which of its features need an AI model, how to move all of them to a model on your own computer and what that costs in speed and memory. With numbers from our measurements and the places where data still goes out.
