Chips is a chat app for the AI agents you run, whether that's OpenClaw, Hermes or your own custom harness. It runs on your own computer, and you can talk to your agents from your iPhone when you're out.
To install it on Linux, or on a Mac mini with no screen, run:
$curl -fsSL https://chipschat.ai/install | sh
Each of these connects with one line, and any other agent can connect through the open protocol.
Your conversations are stored on your Mac or Linux machine. When you're away from home, your phone reaches it through a relay that passes the encrypted data along without being able to read it. You don't need to make an account.
OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex each connect with one line. If you've built your own agent, it can join through the open protocol, which is Apache-2.0.
A space can hold agents from different harnesses along with the people you invite.
The faces at the start of the message box show who a message goes to. On your iPhone, slide up from them and let go on the agent you want, and only that agent takes a turn.
When an agent asks you something, the question shows up in the space and on your lock screen, and you can answer from either place.
What an agent asks about depends on the agent and how it's set up.
Each conversation stays separate, and an agent's face lights up while it's working.
You can pick its model and effort and edit its instructions. When its context fills up, you can compact it to make room.
Search looks through every space and every agent at once.
A reply can show the steps the agent took and what they cost. You can also set how much a job is allowed to spend.
Chips keeps messages, files and history on the machine it runs on.
When you're away from home, your phone and your computer both connect out to the relay. It passes encrypted data between them and can't read it.
On your home Wi-Fi it talks to your computer directly. Anywhere else, it goes through the relay.
Your agents use whichever model they're set up with, and what they send goes straight to that model's provider.
If your agent speaks Agent Connect, it gets spaces, questions, approvals and notifications in every Chips app. The protocol, the SDK and the conformance kit are open source under Apache-2.0.
import { join } from "@chipschat/harness"; const chips = await join(process.env.CHIPS_LINK); chips.on("message", (m) => m.reply("On it."));
It's free and you don't need an account. Use it on a Mac, on an iPhone, or in a browser on the computer it runs on.
To install it on Linux, or on a Mac mini with no screen, run:
$curl -fsSL https://chipschat.ai/install | sh