Operance

Turn intent into action.

**Operance is a local-first AI desktop action layer that lets you control your computer with natural language.** Speak or type what you want, and Operance turns that intent into safe, typed desktop actions before anything runs.

The current public beta is Fedora KDE Plasma Wayland first and uses a tray-first click-to-talk workflow. It is ready for outside developers and early adopters to install, test, report issues, and help extend.

Today, Operance can open apps and websites, focus or quit apps with confirmation, list recent files, list or search known folders by file name, show basic file metadata, manage Desktop files or folders with confirmation, list, find, or switch windows, answer desktop-status questions, and control basic audio state. It also supports safe JSON desktop skill packs for adding exact phrase shortcuts that emit existing typed actions without changing the portable core.

The tray and verified commands work without an AI model. A local OpenAI-compatible model, such as an Ollama-served Qwen model, can be enabled as a bounded planner fallback after `operance --planner-readiness` reports it is safe to enable. Model output is still constrained to Operance's typed action schema and goes through validation, policy, and confirmation gates.

For developers, Operance is also built to be extended. Under the hood, it has a shared portable core, per-platform providers and adapters, and an MCP-compatible control surface. The current delivery scope stays Linux-first while keeping the core portable for later Windows and macOS adapters.


Platform roadmap:

• Phase 1: Linux/KDE/Wayland
• Phase 2: Windows
• Phase 3: macOS

The implementation stays Linux-first today. The portable core remains shared across platforms, includi