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Halo: Open Source Claude Code Desktop App ​

Halo is an AI workstation — for teams and individuals alike.

Deploy locally, run 24/7. You set the goals; AI Digital Humans get the work done, and you make the calls at the key checkpoints.

In One Sentence ​

Halo wraps 100% of Claude Code's Agent capabilities inside a visual interface anyone can use — then adds local-first deployment, remote control, an AI browser, and AI Digital Humans, growing it from a "coding tool" into a workstation that can take over everyday business.

Under the hood it runs a pluggable engine architecture, supporting frontier Agents like Claude Code and Codex. With a complete product layer of over 300,000 lines of code, it's validated by tens of thousands of users and proven in enterprise environments.

What Halo Can Do for You ​

CapabilityDescription
Your Daily AI PartnerCoding, product design, operations, writing, research — your all-around work companion
100% Local, Zero CloudData never leaves your machine; meets enterprise compliance requirements
AI Digital HumansAI workers running autonomously 24/7 — monitoring, reports, routine operations
AI BrowserAn embedded browser controlled directly by AI; automate any web-based system
Native WeCom / WeChat ControlCommand AI from your enterprise IM, zero training cost
Remote AccessControl from phone / H5 / WeChat / Android; managers check progress on the go
Download and GoZero config, no backend; IT deploys org-wide in minutes

100% compatible with Claude Code's Agent capabilities, MCP, and Skills.

AI Digital Humans: Your Autonomous AI Workforce ​

Traditional RPA follows rigid scripts and breaks the moment anything changes. Halo takes a different path: AI makes the decisions, Browser Skills handle the operations — understanding context, adapting to change, and executing with precision.

Create a Digital Human, give it a task and a schedule, and it runs autonomously: patrolling internal OA / CRM / ERP, summarizing CI/CD and tickets, generating daily digests, running scheduled compliance checks… no screen to watch, no scripts to babysit.

It uses the exact same Agent capabilities as conversation mode — the same engine, MCP toolchain, and AI browser — it just triggers automatically on schedule, without you at the computer.

More Than Just a UI ​

Halo is functionally equivalent to Claude Code under the hood: anything you can do from the command line, you can hand to Halo in natural language — writing code, deploying services, organizing files, generating reports, controlling a browser. If an Agent can do it, Halo supports it.

Think of it this way: Windows turned DOS into a visual desktop; Halo turns the Claude Code CLI into a visual AI workstation.

The Name ​

Halo is pronounced /ˈheɪləʊ/, and can also be remembered as Hello.

The word "halo" carries two meanings: it is the guardian daemon running on your local desktop, and it is the halo you can summon remotely at any time — no matter where you are, you are always in control.

The Story of Halo ​

Starting with a Question ​

In October 2025, Cursor revised its subscription policy and programming costs surged. During that period, we kept asking ourselves one question:

Is there a tool that combines the powerful Agent capabilities of Claude Code — remote desktop control from anywhere, an AI browser that autonomously completes tasks — with a friendly visual interface that includes file management and output preview, making it accessible to both developers and product managers?

We did our market research, and the conclusion was clear — no such tool existed. The market offered either chat tools with custom API support (like Open Web UI or LobeChat) or CLI-based, developer-centric terminals (like Claude Code CLI or Gemini CLI).

If what we wanted didn't exist, we'd build it ourselves.

Born Over a Weekend ​

We spent one weekend building a visual desktop for Claude Code — using Claude Code itself. The first version supported macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web simultaneously, with virtually no rough edges and approximately 95% of features working out of the box.

Even more remarkably: from that point on, 100% of Halo's code has been generated by AI. We have never opened Cursor or the official CLI again.

A few months later, a wave of similar Cowork / xxClaw products appeared. Halo was among the first clients to bring remote command plus full Agent capabilities to an ordinary desktop.

What Halo Is After ​

Halo doesn't chase trends — it chases efficiency.

We focus on one thing: raising the efficiency of individuals and organizations, eliminating manual effort and waiting.

Buzzwords and concepts churn fast out there; we neither chase them nor measure ourselves against them. Halo is 100% built by Halo itself, and that alone is an exploration of the boundaries of efficiency: we don't reference or follow any external concept, because we believe —

The best direction comes from the most direct feedback of individuals and teams, from the feedback of efficiency itself — not from the evolution or refinement of any concept.

The buzzwords change every day. We only ask one question: does it make people faster and freer of hassle.

Open Source & Philosophy ​

Halo is not a commercial product. It is an experiment driven by individuals and the community. We were born from a single phrase:

Kill Ugly Raw Source, AI Rewrites.

Once, this phrase meant using AI to refactor bad code. Today, its meaning has fully evolved — eliminating raw, inefficient, and repetitive human intervention in the digital world, and rewriting how tasks are executed with digital humans that run silently 24/7.

We believe the computing platform of the future should be a standardized Agent runtime, allowing AI agents to persistently and autonomously take over complex business workflows. This should be open source and community-built, not monopolized by commercial companies.

Get Involved

Contributions are welcome on GitHub. Feel free to open an Issue or submit a PR to help improve Halo.

Next Steps ​