Observed arrival · 2026-08-24

Riot: Keep the AI Agent on Your Machine

riotai.app Observed source

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Riot is an open-source desktop AI agent that reads projects, edits files, runs commands, browses, and produces documents locally.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-24 issue.

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The workspace combines an agent conversation with an embedded terminal, browser, Git view, and document pipeline. Its permission model ranges from asking before every action to unattended execution, while planning mode is described as read-only until approval. The page lists support for both hosted and local model endpoints, including Ollama and vLLM, and says document runtimes can handle DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and PDF without separately installing Python, Node, or LibreOffice.

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