Shinkai Local Ai Agents

Shinkai is an application for building and running AI agents with a focus on privacy and user control. It runs as a web app in beta, which needs no installation, and as a desktop app that executes local models and can work offline. One portable identity moves between the two, carrying the user's data, connections and agents. A unified agent builder defines an agent's persona, connects knowledge bases, equips tools and schedules automated tasks in one workflow. An AI network router sends requests to local models such as Llama and Gemma for privacy, or to cloud providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, or to decentralized models, so all of them can be used from one place. The vendor states that user data stays with the user and that inputs are not used for training. Payments for AI services use the x402 protocol, which lets users pay providers directly with stablecoin micropayments in USDC, without accounts or intermediaries. The site's example shows an image generation request invoiced at 0.03 USDC. It is aimed at users and developers who want agents that are independent of a single vendor, and who want to run sensitive workloads locally. The site lists a web app and a desktop download but publishes no plan prices or subscription tiers, so what a user pays depends on the providers and services used.