Keep the project present
The workspace, conversations, and active task stay together without moving context between tools.
Everyone should havean AI workbench of their own.
General AI tools solve common problems. YourBuddy brings your preferred models, Skills, Plugins, files, and professional workflows into one desktop workbench that grows around the way you work.
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Work does not stop at the chat box.
Your project, task breakdown, and agent execution history stay in one workbench. You see more than an answer: you see the work moving forward.
Make complex work legible
Task management shows the steps, running state, and pending queue.
Trace the execution
Move between conversation, trajectory, and plugin views to inspect agent calls and results.
Grow a general foundation into your workbench.
Reuse the way you work
Use Skills to retain repeatable workflows, standards, and judgment.
Bring in professional capabilities
Use Plugins to add the tools, services, and interfaces your work requires.
Keep the whole job in view
Use files, the editor, terminal, Git, and plugin pages beside the conversation, and inspect the actual result at any time.
Do more than install plugins. Shape the workbench.
Skills teach the workbench your workflows. Plugins add tools, services, and workbench interfaces. YourBuddy provides a useful foundation that each person can extend around their profession and habits.
Read about the included pluginsCodex Auth
Connect an existing account for models, search, and image capabilities with less repeated setup.
Better Sidebar
Use files, the editor, terminal, Git, previews, and plugin pages in the primary workbench beside the conversation.
Context Doctor
Inspect context usage, duplicate content, and shadowed skills to help diagnose session issues.
Oil Creator
Organize scripts, recordings, subtitles, covers, articles, and publication material around ordinary local project folders.
Plugin Marketplace
Explore available extensions and their sources before adding the tools you need.
Harbor Evolution
An independent project developed by the Y8 maintainer for evidence-based diagnosis and controlled evaluation.
Keep your methods in the workbench.
Turn repeatable workflows and standards into Skills. Turn professional tools, services, and interfaces into Plugins. Start the next job with what you have already built.