Aether

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Aether

Soar with local AI.
A stunning, localized, highly extensible general-purpose AI Agent for Android, iOS and macOS.

中文 • Visuals & Experience • Extensions • Core Features • Documentation

"When the great Peng bird journeys to the Southern Ocean, it flaps the water for three thousand miles, spiraling upward on a whirlwind (Aether/Fuyao) to ninety thousand miles, and travels for six months before resting."

Aether is dedicated to bringing a modern, local AI Agent experience to mobile and desktop devices (Android, iOS, and macOS). Built on top of the Pi framework, it pairs a minimalist, polished UI with immense extensibility, seamless tool calling, and full extension ecosystem support.

🧩 High Extensibility

Aether natively supports loading standard Pi Extensions. To bring TUI-oriented extensions seamlessly to mobile touchscreens, Aether provides a rich Extension API allowing extensions to inject custom settings cards, interactive composer widgets, overlay transcript viewers, prompt interceptors, and semantic tool titles.

Extension	Description	Repository
Pi Web Access*	Web search across 20+ providers (OpenAI, Brave, Exa, Tavily, Perplexity, Gemini, SearXNG), GitHub repo cloning, PDF extraction, and YouTube/video understanding with native settings and transcript cards.	AetherExtensions/pi-web-access
Pi MCP Adapter*	Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway supporting Stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE, and Unix domain sockets with lazy loading, token-saving tool discovery, interactive OAuth authentication, and a visual server management GUI.	AetherExtensions/pi-mcp-adapter
Pi Subagents*	Claude Code-style autonomous sub-agents with parallel background execution, mid-run steering, live widget & FleetView cards above the composer, conversation overlay viewer, and `@handle` prompt mentions.	AetherExtensions/pi-subagents

* means it's an official extension adapted by the Aether team. Add your extension to the list by submitting a PR.

Extensions can be installed directly as zip packages in Settings → Extensions → Import extension.

For extension development documentation, see https://aether.baimoqilin.com/docs/extensions/overview.md.

📱 Visuals & Experience

Aether's UI and interactions are heavily inspired by excellent, mature applications like ChatGPT, Codex CLI/App, Gemini, and Poco Agent. Every animation and interaction detail has been carefully polished to break the stereotype that "open-source means cheap and unrefined."

✨ Core Features

Stunning UI & Silky Smooth Interactions: Distilling the design essence of top-tier apps like ChatGPT to create a minimalist, modern, and elegant interface.
Pi Harness Kernel: Powered by the Pi framework, providing the widest LLM provider compatibility and a lightweight, highly efficient Agent execution engine.
Extreme Extensibility: Inherits Pi's complete extension model while providing Aether's proprietary Script Extensions and Native Mods system to deeply customize mobile UI, settings, composer widgets, and runtime behavior.
Built-in Alpine VM: Includes an automatically installed Alpine Linux environment to run shell commands and tools out of the box.
System File Manager Access (Android): After initializing Alpine, select Aether (Alpine) in the system Files app or SAF document picker's sidebar to browse the environment and /workspace, create, edit, rename, delete, or copy files between Alpine and device storage. Changes apply directly to the files used by proot. System mounts such as /dev, /proc, and /sys are excluded.
Extensible Host Control: Supports optional Shizuku and Termux integration for direct device manipulation and automation. (Android only)

🚀 Quick Start

See https://aether.baimoqilin.com/docs/quickstart.

🤝 Contributing

This project is being developed sporadically by a 15yo student during their spare time (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠). Aether is still actively iterating and being polished. If you like this project, please consider giving it a ⭐ Star, or submit PRs and Issues to help make Aether even better!