Kairos 2.3.0 beta 3

Kairos 2.3.0 beta 3

This is a beta. It does not update existing installs on its own: download it only if you want to try it early. Back up your Kairos data folder before installing, because this version moves your data into per-account folders and that change does not undo.

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.

Fixed since beta 2

• Fast, safe first start: the first start after upgrading no longer makes a full copy of your data folder before moving it, which took half an hour on large profiles and made the app give up. It now saves the small files it may change, writes down every move, and finishes in seconds. A screen shows the progress while it works. If Kairos is closed in the middle, the next start picks up where it stopped.
• Backups never follow folder shortcuts: backups, the data move and the cleanup of old scratch files no longer go into folders that point somewhere else on your PC (such as a project's node_modules). Backups record those shortcuts and put them back on restore.
• Google pages work offline: when Google can't be reached, Calendar keeps showing your own events and the Google pages say so in a plain sentence instead of showing an error.
• Call-style ring notifications: when a bot calls you, your devices ring with Answer and Decline buttons. Answering on one device stops the ring on the others, and a missed ring moves on to the next way you chose in Reach me.
• Discord call invites: a bot can invite you to a Discord voice call, wait for you to join and greet you by name.
• Ask by call, and other call improvements: a bot can call you to ask a question and get your spoken answer back as text. Calls also guard against hanging up too early, say "On it." while a longer task runs, read typed messages into the call, show how fast each reply was, and save the call's transcript in the bot's chat.
• HD voice for NVIDIA: on PCs with a suitable NVIDIA graphics card, Kairos Voice can use a richer HD voice, installed only when you ask for it. Settings > Speech is tidier, with Set up and Advanced sections.
• New call screen: calls look like a phone call, with the bot's picture, three round buttons and a More menu. A call can be shrunk to a small pill so you can keep using Kairos.
• Pack C: a new blocky, voxel-style look for Content Studio videos, with blocky characters and a made-for-kids setting for each post.
• Full test gate: every test, including every screen check, ran on this exact code before release.

Fixed since beta 1

• Windows PCs without the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime: the installer now adds it when it is missing (Microsoft's own official package, run quietly; Windows may ask for permission). Without it, the Kokoro voice, Smart Turn and local models could not load. If the runtime still is not there, Settings > Speech says "Install the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime" instead of failing silently.
• Cleaner package: the installer no longer carries leftover files that held paths from the build computer.

New

• Accounts: each account is its own private space, with its own sign-ins, keys, bots and data. Share skills, tabs and similar items only when you choose to.
• Built-in browser: a full Browse mode with tabs, saved passwords, an ad blocker and sign-in pop-ups. Bots can borrow a site's sign-in when you allow it.
• Voice:
  • Calls start with one tap.
  • One Voice setting covers calls, Open Mic, read-aloud and phone calls. The options are Kairos Voice (free, on this computer), GPT-Live (your OpenAI key) or ElevenLabs (your key), with Voicebox under More options.
  • Kokoro, the free local voice, now ships with no extra engine package and runs on the graphics card when it can.
  • Pronunciations let you fix how words are said.
  • Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity sign-ins can be the conversation model in calls.
• Reach me: choose how bots message and call you: in the app, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, SMS or a phone call. Includes quiet hours and one STOP that works on every channel.
• Content Studio:
  • Narrated videos with captions.
  • Original 2D and 3D characters.
  • Style packs you can make, share and import.
  • Long videos in chapters that resume after a stop.
  • Format cards with policy checks.
  • Prepare post for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram (you always press Post yourself), with a publishing dashboard.
• Studio editor: a full timeline with tracks and clips, keyframes, editing on the preview, Ask Kairos inside the editor, word-by-word captions, your own video and sound clips, and export to 60 fps, WebM, MOV and GIF.
• In-chat media: pictures, video, audio and documents open inside the conversation.
• Usage: see each chat's usage, cost and how fast and reliable each model is.

Faster

• Calls, idle windows and the Bots screens do much less work in the background.
• 100 bots and 100 routines due at once no longer freeze the app.

Known limits in this beta

• Paid voices (GPT-Live, ElevenLabs), Reach me channels, phone calls and posting to TikTok and Instagram have only been tested against stand-ins, not real accounts.
• Windows build first; the macOS build follows when it finishes.

Kairos 2.3.0 beta 2

Superseded by beta 3, which fixes the slow first start. Install beta 3 instead.

Kairos 2.3.0 beta 2

This is a beta. It does not update existing installs on its own: download it only if you want to try it early. Back up your Kairos data folder before installing, because this version moves your data into per-account folders and that change does not undo.

Fixed since beta 1

• Windows PCs without the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime: the installer now adds it when it is missing (Microsoft's own official package, run quietly; Windows may ask for permission). Without it, the Kokoro voice, Smart Turn and local models could not load. If the runtime still is not there, Settings > Speech says "Install the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime" instead of failing silently.
• Cleaner package: the installer no longer carries leftover files that held paths from the build computer.

New

• Accounts: each account is its own private space, with its own sign-ins, keys, bots and data. Share skills, tabs and similar items only when you choose to.
• Built-in browser: a full Browse mode with tabs, saved passwords, an ad blocker and sign-in pop-ups. Bots can borrow a site's sign-in when you allow it.
• Voice:
  • Calls start with one tap.
  • One Voice setting covers calls, Open Mic, read-aloud and phone calls. The options are Kairos Voice (free, on this computer), GPT-Live (your OpenAI key) or ElevenLabs (your key), with Voicebox under More options.
  • Kokoro, the free local voice, now ships with no extra engine package and runs on the graphics card when it can.
  • Pronunciations let you fix how words are said.
  • Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity sign-ins can be the conversation model in calls.
• Reach me: choose how bots message and call you: in the app, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, SMS or a phone call. Includes quiet hours and one STOP that works on every channel.
• Content Studio:
  • Narrated videos with captions.
  • Original 2D and 3D characters.
  • Style packs you can make, share and import.
  • Long videos in chapters that resume after a stop.
  • Format cards with policy checks.
  • Prepare post for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram (you always press Post yourself), with a publishing dashboard.
• Studio editor: a full timeline with tracks and clips, keyframes, editing on the preview, Ask Kairos inside the editor, word-by-word captions, your own video and sound clips, and export to 60 fps, WebM, MOV and GIF.
• In-chat media: pictures, video, audio and documents open inside the conversation.
• Usage: see each chat's usage, cost and how fast and reliable each model is.

Faster

• Calls, idle windows and the Bots screens do much less work in the background.
• 100 bots and 100 routines due at once no longer freeze the app.

Known limits in this beta

• Paid voices (GPT-Live, ElevenLabs), Reach me channels, phone calls and posting to TikTok and Instagram have only been tested against stand-ins, not real accounts.
• Windows build first; the macOS build follows when it finishes.

Kairos 2.3.0 beta 1

Superseded by beta 3, which fixes the slow first start. Install beta 3 instead.

Superseded by beta 2, which installs the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime when a PC lacks it.

Kairos 2.3.0 beta 1

This is a beta. It does not update existing installs on its own: download it only if you want to try it early. Back up your Kairos data folder before installing, because this version moves your data into per-account folders and that change does not undo.

New

• Accounts: each account is its own private space, with its own sign-ins, keys, bots and data. Share skills, tabs and similar items only when you choose to.
• Built-in browser: a full Browse mode with tabs, saved passwords, an ad blocker and sign-in pop-ups. Bots can borrow a site's sign-in when you allow it.
• Voice:
  • Calls start with one tap.
  • One Voice setting covers calls, Open Mic, read-aloud and phone calls. The options are Kairos Voice (free, on this computer), GPT-Live (your OpenAI key) or ElevenLabs (your key), with Voicebox under More options.
  • Kokoro, the free local voice, now ships with no extra engine package and runs on the graphics card when it can.
  • Pronunciations let you fix how words are said.
  • Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity sign-ins can be the conversation model in calls.
• Reach me: choose how bots message and call you: in the app, Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, SMS or a phone call. Includes quiet hours and one STOP that works on every channel.
• Content Studio:
  • Narrated videos with captions.
  • Original 2D and 3D characters.
  • Style packs you can make, share and import.
  • Long videos in chapters that resume after a stop.
  • Format cards with policy checks.
  • Prepare post for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram (you always press Post yourself), with a publishing dashboard.
• Studio editor: a full timeline with tracks and clips, keyframes, editing on the preview, Ask Kairos inside the editor, word-by-word captions, your own video and sound clips, and export to 60 fps, WebM, MOV and GIF.
• In-chat media: pictures, video, audio and documents open inside the conversation.
• Usage: see each chat's usage, cost and how fast and reliable each model is.

Faster

• Calls, idle windows and the Bots screens do much less work in the background.
• 100 bots and 100 routines due at once no longer freeze the app.

Known limits in this beta

• Paid voices (GPT-Live, ElevenLabs), Reach me channels, phone calls and posting to TikTok and Instagram have only been tested against stand-ins, not real accounts.
• Windows build first; the macOS build follows when it finishes.

Kairos 2.2.2

Kairos 2.2.2

A safety fix for notes. Everyone on 2.2.0 or 2.2.1 should update.

Fixed

• Notes are never deleted because the vault folder looks empty. If the vault folder was missing, unreadable, empty, or pointed somewhere new, Kairos could treat every note that came from the vault as deleted and remove it from the app. Now a note is only removed when Kairos actually read its vault file, the file had content, and it came from that same vault. Otherwise the note stays and is marked as not synced, so nothing disappears.

Kairos 2.2.1

Kairos 2.2.1

A quick fix release for three things people noticed in 2.2.0.

Fixed

• Typing in a chat is instant again. In long chats, every keystroke made the app re-measure the whole conversation, so the text you typed appeared slowly. Typing is back to 2.1 speed, and sending a message in a long chat is faster too.
• The chat bar stays on screen on iPhone. In the home-screen app the chat bar could end up partly or fully below the bottom of the screen after the keyboard closed, with no way to reach it. It now returns to its place when the keyboard goes away, and the message box has more room next to the model button.
• The + menu on phones is tidy. Open Mic is a normal row again, the Mode row lines up, and the menu sits fully above the chat bar so its last item is no longer hidden.

Kairos 2.2.0

Kairos 2.2.0

Bots, with Kip at the front desk

• Bots is its own mode, beside Kairos and Forge (Preview).
• Kip answers first. Ask Kip anything, give it a task, or let it hand the work to the right bot. Chat, Tasks and Make sit side by side.
• Kip keeps an eye on your day. Every 15 minutes it checks your mail and calendar, only reading and saving drafts, and puts what needs you in a brief in your own time zone. It tells you when it starts, and its settings sit at the top of Kip's Routines.
• Make a bot in a few steps, with more settings when you want them, or start from a ready-made one.
• Rooms and teams. Group chats with several bots, cards in a room, and group calls.
• Packages. Export a bot or a team and import it as a copy.
• One Inbox for questions, reports and approvals, with the same count on Home and the sidebar.
• Asks before anything leaves Kairos: sending, posting, deleting or changing something outside.

Designs, documents and video

• 24 looks, chosen for the subject, or a style made from your own photos, screenshots, PDFs, PowerPoint or Word files.
• PDFs as real documents, with charts from your tables. Slides export as editable PowerPoint, documents as Word.
• Pictures from free Openverse photos, or from OpenAI images with your own key.
• A design canvas in Library > Designs: one design in several formats, edited by chat.
• Videos built beat by beat, with a soundtrack, rendered with FFmpeg. The Studio tab (Tool Store > Tabs) lets you edit them by hand and render them for wide or tall screens.
• Kairos checks its own renders before handing them over, and the creative tools need no shell access.

Getting around

• /demo walks you through every tab, one feature at a time. Skip any step or whole tab, or end it whenever you like. On a phone it lists the tabs instead.
• Right-click text in the desktop app for spelling fixes, Add to dictionary, cut, copy and paste.
• A redesigned desktop: pinned tabs with the rest under All tabs, search everywhere, and Kip on Home.
• A home-screen app on your phone, with a sliding sidebar and push notifications.

Fixes

• A full feature pass over every tab, with fixes across chats, Home, Library, Calendar, Tasks, Tool Store, Settings and Forge.
• Copies installed from a release candidate now update to the next stable release.
• Upgrading from 1.x with scheduled task history no longer stops Kairos at startup.

Install

Windows: Kairos-Setup-2.2.0.exe. macOS (Apple Silicon): Kairos-2.2.0-arm64.dmg. Windows copies update themselves in the background and install when you quit. Neither build is code-signed yet; see the README for first-run steps.

Kairos 2.1.0

Kairos 2.1.0

Agents, rebuilt

• Many conversations per bot. Each conversation keeps its own model, approvals and Stop.
• A conversation-first page. On a desktop, the bot's conversations, live status, items waiting on you and next routines sit beside the chat. On a phone it reads like a messaging thread: Settings and a menu for Work, Routines and Memory, with questions and approvals as cards you answer in place.
• Watch it work. While a bot works you see what it is doing and for how long, and its reply arrives whole.
• Routines you can pause and edit, and an inbox of questions, reports and results to review.
• Model versions. Run each bot on a chosen model version and reasoning level.
• Bots assign work to each other, but only to the peers you allow.
• Memory that stays tidy, in journalled passes you can undo.
• /setup in a bot's chat changes its own setup with Undo, and can never widen its access.
• Character faces you design, and a settings sheet that matches the rest of Kairos and follows your appearance.
• Notifications on the desktop and your phone when a bot needs you, plus an optional floating bot window.

Skills and tools

• Motion video skill. Make animated videos from code: canvas animation and a soundtrack synthesized in code, rendered to MP4 with Playwright and FFmpeg, and reviewed before delivery. It checks for Node, Playwright and FFmpeg first and asks before installing anything.
• @ references for skills, tools, automations and documents in chat, and + > Use a skill.
• REA in Tool Store: an optional reverse-engineering tool for inspecting applications, websites, JavaScript, binaries and runtime behaviour. It needs Node.js 22.19+, 24.11+ or 26+ and downloads its pinned package only after you approve.

Also new

• Tabs can add cards to Home, chosen and ordered in Settings > Layout.
• A redesigned phone layout.
• Completed items are hidden from the calendar's Next 7 Days.

Fixes

• The ten post-2.0 fixes across chat, Forge, Settings, the desktop overlay, automations and calendar recurrence.
• Large PDF attachments no longer end a Claude reply; they are split into page ranges.
• Codex replies are no longer cut off while Codex is still thinking.
• CRM inbox scans no longer report "Some messages could not be extracted" on every run.
• The motion-video render keeps audio peaks within limits.

Install

Windows: Kairos-Setup-2.1.0.exe. macOS (Apple Silicon): Kairos-2.1.0-arm64.dmg. Windows copies update themselves in the background and install when you quit. Neither build is code-signed yet; see the README for first-run steps.

Kairos 2.0.0

Kairos 2.0.0. JARVIS is now Kairos. Your data stays where it was, and installed copies update themselves on Windows.

What's new

• Kairos: the new name and look.
• Forge (Preview): a coding workspace. Projects, sessions in their own Git worktrees, Build and Plan modes, a Changes review with per-file and per-hunk revert, an app preview, a file editor, a terminal, and a Git panel (push and merge-back always ask first; push never forces).
• Model setup guide: sign in to the bundled Claude Code, install Codex with your permission, test an API key, or download a local model. There is no default model; pick one above the chat box.
• Kairos Store: browse and install community tabs, skills, tools and automations, and share your own for review.
• Computer use: a contained browser with live view and takeover, an optional agent desktop, and teaching a task by recording it. Off by default; needs Docker.
• Agents: named helpers with their own role, memory and inbox; hand work over with an @ mention.
• A calmer Home with Agents and Tool Store at a glance, artifact review, slash command suggestions, and Settings > Shortcuts.

Install

• Windows: Kairos-Setup-2.0.0.exe. Existing installs update in the background and apply it when you quit.
• macOS (Apple Silicon): Kairos-2.0.0-arm64.dmg. Install by hand; replace the old app.

Known limits

• Not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper warn on first run.
• macOS is Apple Silicon only, with no auto-update.
• Forge is a preview.

Kairos 2.0.0 RC 1

Release candidate for Kairos 2.0.0. For testing before the full release. Installed 1.15.0 copies will not update to this; download it by hand. An rc copy updates itself to the final 2.0.0 when it ships.

Back up first: Settings > Backup.

What's new in 2.0

• Kairos: the new name and look. Your data stays where it was.
• Forge (Preview): a coding workspace. Projects, sessions in their own Git worktrees, Build and Plan modes, a Changes review with per-file and per-hunk revert, an app preview, a file editor, a terminal, and a Git panel (push and merge-back always ask first; push never forces).
• Model setup guide: sign in to the bundled Claude Code, install Codex with your permission, test an API key, or download a local model. There is no default model.
• Kairos Store: browse and install community tabs, skills, tools and automations, and share your own for review.
• Computer use: a contained browser with live view and takeover, an optional agent desktop, and teaching a task by recording it. Off by default; needs Docker.
• Agents: named helpers with their own role, memory and inbox; hand work over with an @ mention.
• A calmer Home, artifact review, slash command suggestions, and Settings > Shortcuts.

Known limits

• Not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper warn on first run.
• macOS is Apple Silicon only, and installs by hand (no auto-update).
• Forge is a preview.

JARVIS v1.15.0

New

• Google Workspace in Library and chats. Connect your own Google OAuth Desktop client to browse, search, upload, download, organize, and share Drive files. Edit Sheets and create Forms, questions, and responses from Library. Admin chats can use Drive, Sheets, and Forms tools under the chat permission mode. Enable the Drive, Sheets, and Forms APIs in your Google Cloud project before connecting.
• Per-chat permissions. Base keeps the existing approval behavior. Admin Auto chats accept tool permissions automatically, including full Codex access.
• More useful chats. File attachments and checkpoints with restore, screen capture, file/note/chat references, chat forking, a timeline and summary, side-by-side chats, message queueing, find, edit/regenerate, terminal style, and command history.
• Tool Store and Vault. Deferred tool search, skill imports including third-party packages, MCP catalog and sign-in, and a refreshed Vault inside Library.
• Work Board and agent tools. Task cards, a shared tool registry, ranked vault search, compacted-chat search, sandboxed code and browser tools, and reviewed application of sandbox edits.
• Model connections. Automatic Claude and Codex model choices, native Anthropic and OpenAI API transports, explicit fallback after provider errors, and improved local-model tool calls.

Security and reliability

• Untrusted tool content changes permission handling for supported tool paths for the rest of the turn. Changed custom-tab code requires renewed approval before loading. Codex native shell reads remain an upstream visibility limit.
• File checkpoints provide a way to inspect and restore model edits. Codex's internal token remains limited to its intended routes; Google chat tools use a separate short-lived capability.
• Packaging and desktop startup fixes from the development branch are included.

Google setup

In Library > Google Drive, enter a Google OAuth Desktop client ID (and its secret if supplied), then connect on the computer running JARVIS. Enable the Drive, Sheets, and Forms APIs in that Google Cloud project. If the consent app is in Testing, add your account as a test user. Google classifies full Drive access as a restricted scope, so public use of a client may require OAuth verification. Google account actions still need a live check with a real client.

Windows and macOS arm64 installers are attached below.