# Ambient Desktop Documentation

Official documentation for Ambient Desktop: coding agent, Ambient Network client, local model miner, routing surface, and curated capability marketplace.

Canonical URL: https://desktop.ambient.xyz

## Pages

- [Ambient Desktop](/) - Ambient Desktop is the developer workstation for agentic work, Ambient Network operations, local model routing, Ambient Mini mining, and curated capabilities.
- [Installation](/getting-started/installation/) - Install Ambient Desktop from packaged artifacts or build it from source on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- [Quickstart](/getting-started/quickstart/) - A first-session path that teaches Ambient through useful work instead of marketing copy.
- [Product North Star](/getting-started/product-north-star/) - The candid product thesis: Ambient Desktop becomes the workstation for agentic work on the Ambient Network.
- [Project Board (Kanban)](/using-ambient/project-board-kanban/) - Project Board turns goals into durable plans, task cards, source-backed evidence, and review loops.
- [Workflow Recorder And Callable Artifacts](/using-ambient/workflow-recorder-callable-artifacts/) - Workflow recordings can become generalized, repeatable artifacts that Ambient treats like callable tools.
- [Durable Goal Loops](/using-ambient/durable-goal-loops/) - Durable goals persist plans, continuation state, evidence, and completion audits across long-running work.
- [Symphony Sub-Agent Orchestration](/using-ambient/symphony/) - Symphony coordinates parent and child agents with scoped tools, role policy, artifacts, and join logic.
- [Provider Priority And Dynamic Fallback](/using-ambient/provider-routing-fallback/) - Ambient can prioritize and fall back through providers for search, fetch, browser, media, and model-adjacent work.
- [Security Model](/security/security-model/) - Ambient's security story centers on sandboxing capabilities, not only sandboxing the whole agent.
- [Curated Defaults And Supply Chain Safety](/security/curated-defaults/) - Ambient deliberately curates default plugins and capabilities instead of pushing users into an unfiltered plugin ecosystem.
- [Browser And Scraping Safety](/security/browser-scraping/) - Browser and scraping docs explain how Ambient exposes powerful web capabilities without treating arbitrary pages as trusted code.
- [Ambient Network Client](/ambient-network/client/) - Ambient Desktop is becoming the official client for Ambient Network operations.
- [Ambient Mini Mining](/ambient-network/ambient-mini-mining/) - Ambient Mini mining will let users opt in to route requests to local machines and earn network rewards.
- [Local Models And Routing](/ambient-network/local-model-routing/) - Ambient can route among local models, Ambient, Ambient Mini, and specialized local providers.
- [Plugins And Marketplace](/capabilities/plugins-marketplace/) - Ambient's marketplace direction is curated, policy-aware, and grounded in visible install/permission state.
- [Local Visual Analysis](/capabilities/local-visual-analysis/) - MiniCPM-V can provide local visual analysis for screenshots, images, and video frames.
- [Ambient vs Codex CLI](/comparisons/codex-cli/) - Ambient shares some coding-agent surface area with Codex CLI, but the product boundary is much larger.
- [Ambient vs Hermes](/comparisons/hermes/) - Ambient borrows Hermes' clear docs shape while separating Ambient's desktop/network thesis.
- [Ambient vs OpenClaw](/comparisons/openclaw/) - Ambient's public comparison centers curation, sandboxing, and product integration rather than raw plugin volume.
- [Maturity Labels](/reference/maturity-labels/) - How this documentation distinguishes Available, Developer Preview, In Development, and Roadmap features.
- [Brand System](/reference/brand-system/) - How this documentation applies the Ambient brand kit to typography, color, diagrams, and screenshot presentation.
- [Source Evidence](/reference/source-evidence/) - Repo-relative source files that anchor the documentation.
- [Deployment](/reference/deployment/) - Deploy the generated documentation site to the existing Cloudflare Pages project and canonical domain.