Local-first AI Agent

Murph is designed as a local-first AI agent. It runs on your machine, stores runtime state locally, and keeps credentials encrypted instead of making a hosted service the default control plane.

What local-first means

Murph keeps the core handoff workflow close to your environment:

• local SQLite for runtime state
• encrypted credentials
• setup through the murph CLI or local browser UI
• explicit provider keys for OpenAI or Anthropic
• policy-controlled autonomy for sending, queuing, or skipping replies

This makes Murph a fit for founders, operators, developers, and small teams that want async automation without handing every workflow to a hosted agent.

Handoff workflow

Murph starts from channels you choose, not from a global inbox:

selected channel -> context -> grounded draft -> policy -> send | queue | skip

The agent can use connected context sources such as docs, GitHub, Gmail, Calendar, meetings, and local notes, then records what happened for review.

Extensibility

Murph ships defaults for channels, providers, web search, fetch, policy profiles, and storage. Those defaults are not a closed set.

New channels, integrations, skills, policies, model providers, search providers, and fetch backends should plug into the existing extension points instead of changing the handoff workflow.

Start locally

curl -fsSL https://murph-agent.com/install.sh | bash
murph setup
murph start

Use Quickstart for the full setup path.