Hydor runs Claude Code, Codex or any model on your own machine, with the plans you already pay for. Ask for research, a document, a trip plan or a bug fix, follow every step, approve what matters, and pick it up on your phone.
Free and open source · macOS 12 or newer, Apple silicon · Intel Mac · Docker and Linux
Works with the agents and models you already use
See it work
Every step shows as it happens, in words you can follow. Commands and edits wait for your OK, and every change comes with its diff.
An example, played out. In Hydor it is your own agent, in your own folder.
Everything in one place
Whichever agent does the work, it gets the same tools, skills and connections, and you get one place to follow it all, on any device.
Claude Code and Codex with the plans you pay for, Gemini CLI and other ACP agents, or Hydor's own agent with any model: OpenRouter, Ollama, or open-weight models on your own graphics card or Mac. Sign in several plans, and a session moves on when one hits its limit.
Approve commands and edits from a card, see each change as a diff, add a note while the agent works, or stop it.
A Researcher, Writer, Tutor, Planner and Analyst ready to start. Agents search the web and cite their sources, and use a browser you can watch and take over to sign in or pay.
Small tools for one job, a trip plan, a product comparison, the weather or a quiz, whose answers open in views of their own, with maps, charts and pictures. Use the ready-made ones, or describe your own.
Pages, slides, documents, spreadsheets and LaTeX, edited right in the app and exported to PDF, Word, PowerPoint or Excel. Pictures, videos, music and voice-overs too. All of it waits in your Library, by project.
A profile of you and notes on your projects, found by their words and by what they mean, on your own computer. Each session starts with what bears on your request.
Scheduled tasks, watchers and webhooks, and goals an agent keeps working on until they hold.
Maths drawn as in a textbook, diagrams in the app's colours, and charts and small tools that run right inside a reply.
A terminal, files, Git with one Sync button, models for your own hardware, projects, skills, plugins, connected apps, usage and limits, and one search box (Ctrl+K) for all of it.
How it goes
Pick an agent, a model and a folder, or let Hydor make a folder for the task. Type it, attach files, or just talk.
Commands fold into small boxes with plain names, each a click away from its output. Commands and edits wait for your Allow, or go ahead on their own if you let them.
Agents search and read the web for you, and each reply shows the pages it cites. Comparisons and reports come as files to open or download.
Turn a follow-up into a scheduled task, and Hydor runs it for you, every morning or every Monday, and tells you what it found.
Projects hold a job's sessions, files, documents, memory and guidelines in one place, like Projects in ChatGPT or Claude, but on your own computer.
On your phone
Sessions keep running when you close the tab. Add Hydor to your phone's home screen, get a notification when an agent finishes or needs you, and answer right from it.
Yours
Hydor is not a service you sign up for. It is an app that runs where you choose, with the AI you choose.
On your Mac, a Linux box at home or a server you rent. Your sessions, files and memory stay there.
The Claude and ChatGPT plans you already have, pay as you go through OpenRouter, or free models on your own computer.
Passwords and keys live in an encrypted vault. Agents use them by name, only on the sites you allow.
MIT licensed: read every line and change what you like. In English, Chinese or Greek.
Download
Install it once on a computer, then open it from any device. A short tour sets up what you want to use, made for people new to AI.
The easiest way: everything Hydor needs in one app, in a window of its own and in the menu bar. It keeps itself up to date.
macOS 12 or newer · Not sure? Apple menu → About This Mac: "Apple M…" means Apple silicon.
On Linux, macOS or Windows, Intel/AMD and ARM. Then open the setup link from its log.
docker run -d --name hydor --restart unless-stopped \
-p 127.0.0.1:8790:8790 -v hydor-home:/home/node \
-v "$PWD/workspace:/workspace" algoprog/hydor
docker logs hydor | grep setupAs a service of your user. Needs Node.js 22.12 or newer, git and tmux.
git clone https://github.com/algoprog/hydor && cd hydor
./install.shRun it on a cloud service from the Docker image, billed to your account there.
Latest release: 0.24.7, 4 November 2026 · Release notes · Install guide · Use it from your phone
Questions
Something else? Ask on GitHub.
Yes. Hydor is free and open source, under the MIT license. The AI it uses is your own: a Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, models you pay for as you go through OpenRouter, or free models that run on your own computer.
No. A short tour, made for people new to AI, sets up what you want to use. Then ask in plain words: assistants help with research, writing, planning, learning and everyday jobs. If you do code, you also get a terminal, files, Git and every change as a diff.
On the computer that runs Hydor. Your sessions, files, memory and keys are kept there, not in a Hydor cloud. Agents reach the AI services and websites you choose from there.
Yes. Open it in your phone's browser and add it to the home screen: it works like an app, with notifications. To reach it away from home, put HTTPS in front of it; the docs show a few easy ways.
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other agents that speak the Agent Client Protocol, such as OpenCode, Qwen Code, Goose, Kimi CLI and Auggie. Hydor's own agent, Custom, gives any model the same tools: through OpenRouter, Ollama, or vLLM on your own graphics card.
Yes, with Docker. There is also a Mac app, an installer for Linux, and one-click deploys to cloud services.
No. Hydor is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI. It runs their official command-line tools, signed in with your own account.
ὕδωρ, "water" in ancient Greek: it takes the shape of whatever holds it.