No hosted environment. Your repo, your tools, a native host.
Bandicot is native code on your Mac. It runs the commands you approve with the tools you already have, and the host, not the model, holds the facts about what ran and what changed.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
The result, the reason, the wait, the work
- What you get
- Native code work with tool results you can inspect.
- Why it holds
- A native host owns execution facts instead of the model, and commands typed in the prompt still follow your permission mode.
- How soon
- Open your native repository and use your installed tools.
- What you stop doing
- No moving the project to a hosted coding environment.
What you bring
No moving the project to a hosted coding environment.
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.
native-code/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.
What we say about it
An agent with write access is only useful if a mistake costs one click.
The Native Bench
Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.
- A native Mac host around your modelincluded
- Command permissions in one fileincluded
- Shell commands run from the prompt, output streamed into the chatincluded
- Versions that follow your .gitignore rulesincluded
- A branched session in a git checkout gets its own worktreeincluded
- Free for one profileincluded
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.
Claims we stand behind
Each line says whether it ships now or is still being built, so you never buy a promise.
- Verified core
A native host owns the work
Bandicot's Zig host runs tools, sessions, approvals and versions around whichever model you pick.
- Available now
Approval before writes
An agent asks before it writes, runs or spends outside the rules you set; the rules live in one permissions file.
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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.
- Available now
Versions follows .gitignore rules to leave out ignored build output, logs and caches.
History stays small and the timeline shows only work that matters.
- Available now
You can bring saved git history back to the project.
The saved history goes back into the project exactly as it was, with your commits, branches and tags.
- Available now
Moving away from git starts with a preview.
Nothing moves until you say yes.
Where the hours go now
No moving the project to a hosted coding environment.
Early
The job lands
Moving a native project into a hosted coding environment means shipping the repository away and rebuilding your toolchain somewhere else.
Before noon
You hand it over
Open the repository where it is. Start a command with an exclamation mark to run it in the project folder, and watch its output stream into the conversation under your permission mode.
Mid-afternoon
A trusted harness around the model
Bandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
Last thing
You read what changed
Native code work with tool results you can inspect.
Straight answers
Which Zig version does it use?
Your project chooses its toolchain. Bandicot runs the commands you approve rather than supplying a compiler version.
Can the agent change files without asking?
Writes, commands and spend outside your permissions file wait for approval. The model cannot grant itself permission.
Where do my prompts go?
A local model runs on your Mac. A hosted provider receives the prompts you send it and bills you directly. Choose the route the work permits.
No hosted environment. Your repo, your tools, a native host.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.