Everywhere Desktop Context Assistant
A desktop assistant that uses the active screen and app context to invoke multiple models and tools in place.
What does this agent do, and when should you use it?
Everywhere is an interactive desktop AI assistant for Windows and macOS, built with Avalonia and marked as using .NET 10. It says it gathers structured data from the active software environment through screen multimodality, accessibility APIs, and UI automation. A user invokes it beside the current application with a global hotkey, then asks a question or works from selected text and context-aware strategies. Its documented tool set includes web browsing, sub-agent dispatch, local filesystem access, terminal script execution, MCP tools, Windows Everything Fast Search, and macOS system-app integration. The listed model options are Everywhere Cloud Service, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, local Ollama, and custom API endpoints; Linux is still in development.
A user invokes Everywhere beside the current app with a global hotkey. It reads screen information and active-environment data obtained through accessibility APIs and UI automation, then accepts a typed request or selected text. It can produce an answer using a selected model provider or Everywhere Cloud Service and perform the documented operations Web Browser, Local File System, Terminal Script Execution, MCP Tools, and Dispatch Sub-agents; Windows additionally lists Everything Fast Search, while macOS lists integrated system apps. Results are presented in the desktop assistant as answers, summaries, translations, rewriting suggestions, or context-specific execution strategies. The supplied material does not document concrete API names, class names, CLI entry points, or tool-call arguments.
- A Windows user facing an error dialog can invoke the assistant next to it and ask what the error means and how to resolve it.
- A researcher reading a long technical web article can invoke it over the page and request a concise summary.
- A Chinese-speaking user working with foreign-language material can select text or invoke the assistant beside it to request a translation.
- A professional drafting a business email can ask for a more professional version while working in the draft window.
- A user assessing an uncertain online claim can select the relevant text and ask “Is it true?” for search and verification.
- An advanced user who has configured MCP tools or local models can combine desktop context with tools, filesystem access, and terminal scripts.
What are this agent's strengths and limitations?
- It explicitly combines screen context with accessibility APIs and UI automation, instead of relying solely on manual screenshots or copy-and-paste.
- Its listed model ecosystem spans OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, MiniMax, Ollama, its cloud service, and custom API endpoints.
- Its documented tool surface combines browsing, MCP, local filesystem access, terminal script execution, and sub-agent dispatch, with Windows and macOS-specific integrations.
- Global hotkeys, text-selection interaction, Markdown, and math rendering are designed for use within an existing desktop workflow.
- Linux support remains in development, so it is not yet a documented fit for a Linux desktop workflow.
- The README does not expose provider-credential setup, MCP server setup, permission boundaries, or safeguards around terminal execution; these need validation before deployment.
- Everything Fast Search on Windows and integrated system apps on macOS are platform-specific, so behavior may differ across operating systems.
- The supplied repository metadata says NOASSERTION while the README claims Business Source License 1.1; commercial adopters need to verify the actual license file and terms.
How do you install or deploy this agent?
The README provides release-package names and a download recommendation, but no source-build or command-line installation commands. Download the matching package from the official download page: Windows offers Everywhere-Windows-x64-Setup-vx.x.x.exe or Everywhere-Windows-x64-vx.x.x.zip; macOS offers Everywhere-macOS-arm64-vx.x.x.pkg for Apple Silicon and Everywhere-macOS-x64-vx.x.x.pkg for Intel Macs. Minimum requirements are Windows 10 10.0.19041.0 or macOS Monterey 12.0; Linux is unfinished. The README does not document provider credentials, MCP setup, permission-grant flow, or exact first-run configuration.
How do you use this agent?
After installation, invoke Everywhere beside the active application with its global system hotkey; the README does not state the actual key combination. Enter a request—for example, explain an on-screen error, summarize a page, translate text, or improve an email—or select text before asking. The README confirms support for particular models, Ollama, filesystem access, terminal scripts, MCP, and sub-agents, but supplies no copyable setup or invocation procedure for those features.