Every feature, in plain words.

Lintel 1.0.0 has 38 features in eleven groups, the same groups you see in its settings. Each one has a switch.

Off by defaultYou turn it on in Settings, under Features. NeedsSomething extra: a download, a key of your own, or a permission.

This is the first release. The island, the agents, chat, media, the shelf, timers and the clipboard have been used the most. Some of the system tools have been tried less. FEATURES.md says how far each one is built, and the roadmap lists what is left open.

Agents Your AI coding agents, on the island.

Coding agents

See what each agent session is doing. When an agent asks for permission, a card slides out with Allow and Deny. Answer its questions, see what it changed, and jump to its terminal. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Amp, Hermes, Antigravity and the Claude desktop app. The hooks for Cursor, Antigravity and Hermes have not been confirmed on a real install yet.

Agent usage

Tokens used by Claude Code and Codex, today and this week, with an estimated value and your plan limits. Read from the logs on your PC. Only numbers are read, never your text.

Integrations

Small status pills for GitHub, Vercel, Stripe, Notion, Resend, Cal.com and n8n.

Needs your own key for each service

Weekly recap

A weekly summary of your agents’ work, kept on this computer.

Chat Ask a model without opening a browser.

Chat

Ask a question from the island. Use your own key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or OpenRouter), a model on your PC through Ollama or LM Studio, or a command-line agent you already have.

Needs a key or a local model

Chat plus

Extras for chat: attach a window as context, and send a file by email. An email is only sent when you click Send.

Media Music and sound.

Now playing

The song that is playing, with its cover, a seek bar and controls. It works with any player Windows knows about. A short notice shows when the track changes.

Audio mixer

Volume and mute for each app, a picker for the sound output, a shortcut to switch outputs, and one key that mutes every microphone.

Audio extras

Music bars, the mascot moving to the beat, and finer volume steps.

Off by default

Island Tabs that live on the island itself.

Calendar

Your next meeting with a countdown, a week view, and a simple list of reminders.

Needs a calendar link (.ics) from you

Controls

Sliders for volume and brightness, quick switches (dark mode, hidden files, desktop icons, lock, display off, Recycle Bin), and a notes pad with tabs that saves itself.

Timer

A timer, a Pomodoro and a stopwatch that stay in view on the island.

Notifications and accessories

A notice when a Bluetooth device connects, with its battery level. Mirroring Windows notifications is not in this version.

Island extras

A camera mirror, quick access tiles for programs, folders and links, and website shortcuts. The camera starts only when you open the mirror.

Off by default

System What your PC is doing.

Levels and battery

Volume, brightness, microphone and battery notices on the island. It also keeps the island away while a full-screen app is in front.

Displays and keep awake

A brightness slider for each display, extra dimming, a wallpaper picker, and keeping the PC awake for a set time.

System monitor

Processor, graphics, memory, disk and network, with a list of processes and open ports. A speed test runs only when you click it.

Hardware sensors

Temperatures, fans and drive health, read by a small helper program. Fan control is a beta.

Off by defaultNeeds one administrator prompt and the PawnIO driver

Capture Pictures and videos of your screen.

Capture

Screenshots of an area, a window or the whole screen. Pick a colour, read a QR code, copy text from the screen, or pin a capture on top of your windows.

Editor

Annotate a capture, add a background or a watermark, capture a long scrolling page, or draw on the screen.

Screen recorder

Record the screen, a window or an area as an MP4 file. Editing a recording afterwards is not in this version.

Files Somewhere to put things for a moment.

Shelf

Park files, text and links on the island, then drag them out again later. Share, zip or rename them from there.

File drop

Drop a file on the island to ask a model about it or to send it on by email.

Tools Everyday helpers.

Clipboard

A history of what you copied (text, links, pictures, files) with search and pins. Paste as plain text. Remove tracking parts from a copied link. Passwords and private copies are left out.

Cleaner

Find caches, logs and leftovers that can go. You review the list, and they move to the Recycle Bin. Uninstall a program and see what it left behind.

Lyrics

The line being sung, under the song. The feature is on, but it looks nothing up until you turn on the lookup from LRCLIB.

Needs you to turn on the lookup

Tools and setup

The welcome page, backup and reset of your settings, a demo mode, and a keyboard lock for cleaning your keys.

Voice

A voice assistant. Press a key and say “set a timer for 12 minutes” or “what are my agents doing”. Speech is understood on your PC. English only. It never approves, sends or deletes anything.

Off by defaultNeeds a download (from 19 MB)

Dictation

Speak instead of typing. Speech becomes text on this computer.

Off by defaultNeeds a download (about 19 MB)

Command bar

One bar to find and run apps, windows, files, settings and actions, with a calculator and unit conversions.

Off by default

Breaks and screen time

Reminders to rest your eyes and stretch, and how long you have used the screen.

Off by default

Radial menu

A wheel of actions at the pointer, opened with a shortcut.

Off by default

Media tools

Compress a video, make a GIF, convert and resize pictures, and read the text in a picture.

Off by default

Companion

The mascot on your desktop, with outfits and small reactions.

Off by default

Weather

The forecast for a city you choose, from Open-Meteo.

Off by default

Apps Keeping programs up to date.

Apps

See which of your apps have updates, and install or update packages through winget. Lintel checks for its own updates here too, only when you click.

Input Keyboard and mouse.

Input tools

Text snippets that expand as you type, filters for keys and clicks that fire twice, shortcuts on mouse buttons, and rules for scrolling.

Off by default

Windows Arranging what is open.

Window layout

Snap the window in front to halves, thirds and quarters with shortcuts, move it to another display, and put it back.

Off by default

Not in this version Said plainly, so you do not look for them.

  • Mirroring the notifications of other apps. Windows allows it only to a signed and packaged app.
  • A replacement for the Alt+Tab switcher. It was considered and dropped.
  • An editor for recordings. It was considered and dropped too.
  • The island on more than one display at a time.
  • A light theme. Lintel is dark only.
  • The voice assistant in languages other than English.
  • macOS and Linux. Lintel is for Windows 10 and 11.