Drift

A focused Windows desktop for coding with AI agents.

A complete agent engine in one installer, with workspaces, long-running threads, and a desktop that stays out of your way.

Free and open source. MIT licensed. Windows 10/11 x64.

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See it swim

Watch Drift work

Ask for a change and Drift reads your code, edits the files, and reruns the tests until they pass. Recorded straight from the app.

Sped up, not staged. Your threads stay on your machine.

Why Drift

Everything close, nothing in the way

Your projects, your providers, your machine.

Every codebase, right where you left it

Each folder becomes a workspace with its own threads, identity, and history. Jump projects without losing your place.

Install it. Connect. Build.

The complete agent engine ships inside Drift. Connect your provider and start working without installing Node or wiring up a CLI.

Ten messages or ten thousand

Long-running threads stay quick to open and smooth to scroll, with live reasoning and readable, syntax-highlighted tool output.

Take the better branch

Fork from any turn, undo a dead end, steer work mid-run, or send the useful context into a separate sibling thread.

Use the right model for the moment

Switch provider, model, agent, and thinking level per thread as the job changes. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Copilot, and more are supported.

Approve what actually runs

Review an MCP server's exact definition before enabling it. If that definition changes, Drift stops it until you approve it again.

Your threads stay local

Drift stores its session database on your machine. The engine listens only on localhost with fresh credentials every launch.

Make the workspace yours

Rebind shortcuts, choose from eight themes, bring custom fonts and CSS, and use Drift in any of 18 interface languages.

From agent output to your editor

Open referenced files in your editor, get native notifications when work finishes, and install signed updates in place.

Take Drift home

latest release

Drift is an agent, not a sandbox. It runs with your user account's permissions, so open trusted workspaces and review permission requests.