Bits
Product Hunt Harsh Patel
Bits launched as a personal agent that runs on your own machine. It keeps working after you close it, and risky actions go through a built-in reviewer.
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Bits is pitching itself as a personal agent that doesn’t vanish the moment you shut the app. It runs on your own machine, stays alive in the background, and keeps going even after the window is closed. That alone puts it in a different bucket from a lot of AI tools that feel more like tabs than helpers.
The mechanics are simple enough to understand and, frankly, a bit appealing. A small background daemon handles the work. Routines can wake it on a schedule, and if the app crashes, every step has been saved so the task can resume instead of starting over.
Bits also leans hard into user control. Its memory is stored in plain Markdown files, which means the data is readable and editable rather than trapped behind a dashboard. Risky actions get routed through Sentinel, a reviewer that only trusts the user’s own words. That’s a neat safeguard, and a pretty direct answer to the usual “what if the agent goes off-script?” problem.
The interface sounds equally focused on doing, not just chatting. It returns live cards and mini-apps, supports voice, opens with ⌥Space, and works with any model, including local ones. Product Hunt says it’s launching today, and the package is clearly built for people who want an agent that lives close to the machine, not in the cloud.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right instinct: keep the agent local, make the memory plain text, and force the dangerous stuff through a human-readable check. Too many AI products want trust without accountability, which is a charming business model if you enjoy surprises. Open tools earn their keep by letting people inspect the machinery, not just admire the demo.
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