Feature overview

Brainwrite turns agent CLIs into a messaging-style workspace. The harness normalizes each provider into one event stream, so the interface can treat different agents consistently while preserving their native strengths.

Agents and conversations

• A separate bot for each role, model, personality, and working folder
• Streaming responses with live tool activity
• Multiple tasks per bot, with searchable, persistent transcript history
• Edit, branch, rewind, pin, react, export, and share conversation content
• Rooms for multi-agent collaboration and explicit bot-to-bot delegation
• Queueing and steering while an agent is already working — queued composer messages are visible and editable until they send
• Per-task token and cost visibility
• Readable, editable bot memory
• In-chat image generation with your own OpenAI image key

Computers and tools

• Local computer control with explicit opt-in and approval boundaries on supported hosts; Ubuntu currently fails closed under an input-safety hold
• Isolated Local VM desktops through Docker or Podman
• Hosted Box cloud computers
• A self-hosted Linux VPS backend over Docker's SSH transport
• Live previews and in-app desktop takeover where the backend supports it
• USB Android control through the Phone Harness skill
• Connected apps through your own Composio project, including multiple labeled accounts per toolkit
• Custom local MCP servers, managed from a UI panel with bounded connection testing

Automation

• One-time and weekday routines
• Webhook-triggered tasks with dedicated secret endpoints
• Fresh task context and durable run receipts for each automated run
• Notifications for work that needs attention

Voice and access

• Spoken replies and per-bot ElevenLabs voices
• Native macOS dictation and half-duplex call mode
• Paired iOS companion with chat, approvals (including Dynamic Island Live Activities), share-sheet capture, routines, search, transcript controls, and opt-in computer viewing
• Remote access to a headless server through paired sessions (pnpm pair) with admin and client scopes

Desktop experience

• macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu packages
• Theme switching and accessible contrast
• Sidebar sections, compact headers, pinned messages, spoilers, and image attachments
• Automatic updates on macOS and Windows