Arqen 1.0.0

The first public release of Arqen: a local AI assistant for Windows with a Mission Control for agents.

Install

1. Under Assets below, click Source code (zip).
2. Right-click the zip, choose Extract All…, pick your Documents folder and click Extract.
3. Open the Arqen-1.0.0 folder and double-click install.cmd. If Windows warns you, click More info → Run anyway.
4. Answer the questions with Enter, then start Arqen from the Start menu.

Step-by-step guide, first start and troubleshooting: Getting started.

What's in 1.0.0

Chat and voice

• Chats that stream, can be stopped mid-answer, and are saved, renamed and deleted from the chat list.
• Ollama / LM Studio, OpenRouter, OpenAI, Gemini and Claude, with ready-made profiles and native tool calling.
• Neural voice through Edge TTS and speech recognition through faster-whisper, with an animated voice ring and a stats panel with tokens and the provider's own cost figure.

Mission Control

• Tasks, multi-agent workflows, schedules (daily, weekly, monthly or once) and an activity log.
• Agents with their own tools and approval rules; every task runs in its own engine, so an agent's limits never reach the chat.
• One approval bar at the top of every view for everything waiting on you.

Memory

• Long-term memory with source, status and confidence. Arqen suggests memories; only the ones you approve are used.
• Reflect: lasting lessons from recent tasks and chats, also as suggestions.

Tools, safety and connections

• 52 built-in tools: system, windows and programs, workspace files, documents, the web (with tech news and release notes), a built-in browser, voice and image generation.
• Approval for anything that can't be undone. A Tool Gateway with risk levels, rules per agent and a log of every call with its cost.
• Keys are read only when a tool runs and are scrubbed from everything a tool returns.
• Connections: GitHub, Google (Gmail, Calendar, Drive), Discord, Telegram and any MCP server, handed to agents with one click.

On your phone

• Settings → Mobile starts Arqen's API over Tailscale and shows a QR code. Chat, approve tools and Mission Control's approvals, and follow your tasks from the phone's browser.

Languages

• English (the default) and Swedish, for the interface, the model's answers and the voice (Settings → Language).

Install

• install.cmd sets up a private Python environment, the packages, the browser for the web tools and a Start menu shortcut, and offers Python and ffmpeg through winget when they are missing.

Arqen is MIT-licensed.