Chief for Mac · Private beta
Download Chief for Mac.
Requires an Apple-silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 15 or later.
On an Intel Mac this app cannot run. Install the chief command-line tool instead — curl -fsSL https://runchief.ai/install.sh | sh — to sign in, search and query memory from any agent. Understanding, the step that turns what arrives into claims, runs only on an Apple-silicon Mac with this app or on Linux with the Chief desktop runtime; until one of those is signed in, everything is stored and searchable and nothing is understood.
Version 0.1.6 is signed with Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple.
- Open the downloaded disk image.
- Drag Chief into Applications.
- Launch Chief from Applications and sign in with your invited account.
- Open Settings → General → Local intelligence, choose your installed, signed-in Claude Code or Codex account, and turn it on. Installing alone does not enable it; this is the step that makes Chief think on this machine.
SHA-256: b99ae94d9da9befa4716014139c23e3cee2aea3fa60d6313b6bbfc11c7b42202
On Linux? Install the desktop runtime with one command from the installation guide, then run chief-desktop intelligence setup — the same step as the Mac app's Local intelligence setting.