Hiel Cowork

Overview & Functional Scope

A fast, Windows-native AI workbench: open any folder as a project and let an agent read and edit files, create Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF documents without Office, run PowerShell, work with Git, search the web, and plug in MCP connectors and skills. Bring your own provider — OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible, Ollama/local, Codex or Grok Build sign-in.

Architecture & Technical Stack

Key Capabilities

• Chat with any provider: OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible, Ollama/local, Codex (ChatGPT sign-in) and Grok Build (xAI sign-in).
• Project workspaces: open a folder and the agent reads, writes and searches it — including a hybrid semantic project index.
• Native document automation for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF, no Microsoft Office required.
• Vision and web access: paste screenshots, let the agent view images, search and fetch pages.
• Windows power tools and Git: PowerShell with approval gates, Explorer integration, status/diff/commit from chat.
• MCP connectors and drop-in skills from the agenticskills.io and agentskills.finance catalogues.
• Checkpoints: every file-writing turn is recorded and can be rewound in one click.
• Parallel conversations, artifact preview (HTML, Markdown, SVG), export, tray and global shortcut.

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