🦁 Lio AI (Code Builder)

<p align="center"> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=GRl_ef4_g8U"> <img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/GRl_ef4_g8U/maxresdefault.jpg" width="100%" alt="Skales Code Builder Demo Video"> </a> </p> Describe what you want and Lio builds it. Multi-AI architecting: One AI designs, one reviews, one builds. Generates HTML, CSS, JS, Python in a sandboxed live preview. Review every file it produced, source and all, inline before you download or deploy. Deploy to FTP/SFTP with one click. Template gallery with quick-start options.

📦 Installation

Download here

🍏 macOS: Signed DMG. Drag to Applications.

🪟 Windows: EXE installer. Signed binaries coming soon.

🐧 Linux: .deb for Debian / Ubuntu / Mint (keeps Chromium sandbox on under Ubuntu 24.04+), AppImage for everything else. See INSTALL-LINUX.md for the Ubuntu 24.04+ AppArmor notes.

📱 Android: Skales Mobile app. Pair to your Desktop via QR, or run standalone. Submitted to Play Store (beta, closed testing).

🔄 Switching tools? Import from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, OpenClaw, Hermes. Settings > Import.

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Demo

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<p>If you find this useful, a ⭐ helps others discover it</p> <p> <a href="https://docs.skales.app">Documentation</a> · <a href="https://getskales.app">Blog</a> · <a href="./CHANGELOG.md">Changelog</a> · <a href="https://github.com/skalesapp/skales/discussions">Community</a> </p>

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--- <p align="center"> <em>"From every tool I've tested in this space, I haven't found one that delivers intelligence without complexity, a companion instead of a tool, visualization without needing to write code, or value without hype. Skales has the foundation to tell that story. No one else in this landscape is close."</em><br/> _{<a href="https://github.com/v33-kind">@v33-kind</a>, Community Contributor} </p>

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🆓 Try Skales with One of These Free Tier APIs

The easiest way to start is Skales IQ, the free built-in trial that needs no API key at all: just open Skales and start chatting. If you would rather use your own provider, the options below all have a real free tier.

You do not need a paid plan or a local GPU to start. Several providers offer a real free tier you can paste straight into Settings → AI Providers and use right away, like Google AI (Gemini), Groq, OpenRouter free models, Cerebras, and Mistral.

For a current, community-maintained list of what is free and how much you get, see Free LLM API Resources. Pick one, drop the key into Skales, and you are running.

📐 Workflows

Workflows are the hand-drawn half of the goal system. A typed /goal lets Skales plan the steps for you; a Workflow lets you draw the steps yourself once, give them a trigger word like /goal-ship, and run that plan again whenever you need it. Think of it as a visual compiler onto the same plan format a typed /goal produces: you lay out steps, success criteria, and named inputs on a canvas, and Skales compiles them into the brief the planner already runs. One playbook store, four producers: the agent crystallizes finished goals into reusable plans, you draw the rest on a canvas, you teach a workflow by showing it once, walk Skales through a task in a normal chat, then turn that chat into a workflow and Skales distills the repeatable steps, trigger and success criteria for you, or you record a real desktop task: on the Workflow page hit Teach by recording, do it once on your screen (F10 stops, F9 pauses so you can skip a password), and Skales replays your exact clicks and typing when you run its /goal, with browser flows recorded in Playbooks instead. A learned workflow runs cold from then on through the normal goal path, falling back to vision when a button has moved. Workflows are opt-in, so you turn them on under Add-Ons, and a hint in Settings > Goal points you there. Running a saved workflow opens a fresh chat with its trigger prefilled and editable, so you can adjust the request before it starts.

🔌 Integrations

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