The brief says what. The project remembers why.
Open the folder that holds the product brief. Decisions go into readable project notes, a handbook carries your terms, and you can attach screenshots of a mock to a message so the agent sees what you mean.
- you get
- A product brief with its decisions close at hand.
- how soon
- Open the folder that holds the product brief.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
What you bring
No re-explaining the product direction to another chat.
A Mac
Bandicot is a Mac app. The work happens in your folders, on your machine.
A folder
Keep files, context, plans and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
decision-project/A model
A local model, an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a hosted provider you sign in to. The provider bills you directly.
Free
For one person on your Mac. Every plan has every capability.
Read this before you start
Made for
Product managers who work with briefs stored as files.
Product managers maintaining product briefs and decision notes
Not yet for
Teams seeking a hosted roadmap or ticketing system.
Everything on one slip
Readable memory and durable sessions belong to the project, and each chat reads AGENTS.md, falling back to CLAUDE.md.
bandicot
- Asked
- Keep product decisions and brief revisions together
- Before it wrote
- It asked, and waited for your answer
- Files kept
- historyversion kept
- modelsversion kept
- projectversion kept
- Stands behind
- An added model’s fingerprint is checked before every load
- Before downloading a model, Bandicot checks memory needs and disk space
- Browse can add a single-file GGUF model from Hugging Face
- Paid to Bandicot
- Free
- Model bill
- from your provider
A product brief with its decisions close at hand.
Notes and sessions belong to the project. The agent reads your handbook first, edits the brief only when your rules allow it, and every revision is a version.
What we say about it
An agent with write access is only useful if a mistake costs one click.
Checked, and labelled
Each line says whether it ships now or is still being built, so you never buy a promise.
- Available now
A version for every change
Every file an agent changes is recorded, with diffs, restore, undo of a whole run, and a slider that puts a folder back to any moment.
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Approval before writes
An agent asks before it writes, runs or spends outside the rules you set; the rules live in one permissions file.
- Available now
Any model, one project
Switch between hosted providers and local models without rebuilding the project around one lab.
- Available now
An added model’s fingerprint is checked before every load.
Bandicot records the file's fingerprint on the first download and checks it before every load, so a file swapped on disk is never run.
- Available now
Before downloading a model, Bandicot checks memory needs and disk space.
Before a download, Bandicot reads the model's own file header to work out how much memory it will need and checks there is room on the disk.
- Available now
Browse can add a single-file GGUF model from Hugging Face.
Bandicot checks it fits first and never runs it if the file changes.
Try it with the door open
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Your files stay yours
The agent does its work in your own folders on your Mac, so the files are yours to keep.
Start without paying
The free plan has every capability for one profile, and asks for no card.
Put a run back
Every changed file is a version, so a run you regret is one click from undone.
The Decision Desk
Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.
- Readable project notes for decisions and cut scopeincluded
- A handbook the agent reads at the start of every chatincluded
- Up to eight pictures attached to one messageincluded
- A version of every brief revisionincluded
- Any model you connect, hosted or localincluded
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Straight answers
Does it sync with our roadmap tool?
No roadmap integration is promised. Work with local project files or connect tools through an MCP server you choose and approve.
Can an agent change the brief without asking?
Writes, commands and spend outside your permissions file wait for approval. The model cannot grant itself permission.
Do I need a paid plan?
The free plan has every capability for one profile. Paid plans add profiles, and hosted providers bill you separately.
The brief says what. The project remembers why.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.