# Overview

> Kilo Desktop brings Kilo's agents to your machine, uniting coding, notebooks, terminals, git, and local models all in one place.

- 网址：https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/overview/
- 来源：Kilo Code 官方文档原文（英文），MIT 许可，同步于 2026-10-11
- 官方原文：https://kilo.ai/docs/desktop/overview

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Kilo Desktop is a desktop application that puts an agentic AI chat next to the tools you already use to write code and analyze data science notebooks. From a single conversation, you can ask the agent to write and edit code, create Python environments, explore data in notebooks, review git changes, and more.

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## What you can do

- Create workspaces that use one or more folders on your machine.
- Chat with an AI agent scoped to a workspace.
- Explore and visualize data in interactive Python notebooks next to your chat and let the agent build, run, and iterate on them with you.
- Put the agent to work in your workspace: edit files, run terminal commands, review git changes, and browse the web, all from the conversation.
- Run models locally or connect to hosted providers through the [Kilo Gateway](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/gateway/).
- Manage conda environments and packages without leaving the app.

## How it works

Kilo Desktop runs on the same agent engine as the rest of Kilo. It starts a local copy of the [Kilo CLI](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/code-with-ai/platforms/cli/) on your machine and drives it through a chat interface, so your sessions use the same runtime that powers the CLI and the [VS Code extension](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/code-with-ai/platforms/vscode/).

Because the app is model-agnostic, you decide where inference happens. Connect hosted models through the [Kilo Gateway](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/gateway/), bring your own provider API keys, or [run models locally](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/features/local-inference/). You're never locked into a single provider and can choose which model works best for your current task.

## Where to go next

- [Installation](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/installation/) — Install Kilo Desktop on your machine.
- [Quickstart](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/quickstart/) — Open a workspace and start your first chat.
- [What you can ask](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/what-you-can-ask/) — Example prompts mapped to capabilities.
- [Features](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/features/) — The capabilities available via chat.
- [General settings](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/settings/general/) — your account, appearance, and app preferences.
- [AI settings](https://funcoding.ai/agents/kilo-code/desktop/settings/ai/) — AI providers, agent behavior, and local models.