Local AI agent hub: why Loomfield runs on your own computer

What is a local AI agent hub?

It is the opposite of scattering your AI work across separate chats on separate services. A hub runs on your machine, launches and watches AI sessions, and keeps what they produce together. The assistants do the work, and the hub gives them a shared place to return for context.

Loomfield treats the assistants as interchangeable. Claude and Codex are the supported tools today, and the knowledge base stays the same when you switch between them.

What do you need to run Loomfield?

According to the getting-started guide, you need one of these computers and one of these AI plans.

• Mac: a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer).
• Windows: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
• AI plan: a Claude Pro or Max subscription, or a ChatGPT plan with Codex.

Setup takes about 10 minutes. Loomfield checks what is installed on a Get set up screen and walks you through connecting Claude or Codex. Early versions are not yet signed by Apple or Microsoft, so the guide explains the one-time prompt to approve on each system.

Where does your data live?

Your Weave, the private knowledge base where Loomfield saves what you and your sessions create, lives in your home folder on your computer.

Two plain caveats. First, when Claude or Codex works on a task, the content it is given is sent to that provider under your own plan, as with their own tools. Second, Loomfield signs in with your account; if you are offline, it keeps working for a day. The in-app diagnostics copy tool removes tokens, emails, and file paths.

Does Loomfield need an API key?

No. It uses your own login with a subscription you already pay for, so there is no API key to create and no separate usage meter to watch.

Can you use Loomfield from your phone or another device?

That is the direction, and it is still rolling out. The model is one hub with many screens: a phone, laptop, or tablet reconnects to the hub to review progress, continue work, or approve what happens next.

Live access requires the hub computer to be awake, online, and running Loomfield. Multi-device access is rolling through private beta, so treat it as planned rather than something to depend on today.

Is Loomfield a personal AI operating system?

Not in the sense of replacing macOS or Windows. Loomfield is better described as a local-first AI work system: a program that runs on your computer, keeps projects and methods together, and lets scheduled helpers called agents run on their own. A starter Weekly Review agent is scheduled for Monday mornings, and you can build your own on the Agents page.

If you were searching for a personal AI operating system, this is the closest kind of product, but the name describes the idea more than the software category.

What stays under your control?

Loomfield is built so that nothing runs automatically without your say. Proposed work, schedules, approvals, exceptions, and stopped jobs stay inspectable. You choose how far each kind of work may go, from help when you ask to routines that run within boundaries you set.