Helmy runs on macOS 12 or later.
Helmy is in early use and has no public download yet. The first public build will be signed and notarized, so it opens like any other app.
The first run#
When Helmy opens for the first time, it walks you through three steps.
- Connections. Helmy looks for Claude Code, Codex and Ollama on your Mac. The ones it finds are switched on and labeled Found on this Mac, and you can edit or switch off each. Anything missing can be installed and signed in from here, with no terminal. If neither Claude Code nor Codex is ready, Helmy installs OpenCode, whose free models answer with no account.
- Chats. Conversations you already had in those tools can be brought in, project by project.
- Folders. Where new chats start: in no project (each chat gets a folder of its own), where you last worked, or always in one folder.
Then a short tour points out the message box, the project, attaching files, the panel and Scheduled. You can replay it from Help, Show the Tour.
Your first message#
Type what you want done, the way you would ask a person. / brings up commands, @
brings in a file. The tray under the message box holds the chat's project, its files, and the skills and tools Helmy has. The round button beside the box sends; when the box is empty it becomes a voice button, for talking with Helmy out loud.