Launching Palette Desktop

AI is only as good as the context it has. So we kept giving it more.

Better prompts. Then project folders. Then Claude.md files. Then skills, whole systems built around the agent so it would just know, instead of having to be told.

People started sharing their folder structures online. Their setups, their workflows, their skills. Something clicked. Folders and markdown, the most ordinary way we already organize knowledge, turned out to be exactly the right shape for an agent.

Then teams got involved. People synced folders through Dropbox, iCloud, and Drive as a hack to share context with the rest of the team. Cowork shipped. IDEs grew on top of the Claude Code CLI, because the terminal isn't for everyone, least of all non-engineers.

Every step was a workaround for the same gap: shared context, on the agent of your choice, for the whole team. Today we're launching Palette Desktop to fill it.

What it is

Point Palette Desktop at any folder on Google Drive or Dropbox. Share the folder with your team. That folder is now your team's workspace.

You run agents inside sessions. A session is a sandboxed clone of the folder where you can work safely. Each session can hold multiple chats running in parallel, each focused on a different task. When you're ready, you save the whole session back to the shared folder. That's the difference between Palette Desktop and chats that write straight to the folder: a team can share the same folder without stepping on each other.

A few things Palette Desktop comes with out of the box:

• Choose your agent. Switch between Claude Code and Codex per session. Your context isn't locked to one vendor.
• Multiple sessions in parallel. Run several at once, each working on a different thing.
• Approve every change. Palette Desktop stages each session's changes so you review before they save back.
• Changes history. Browse, compare, restore with one click.
• Pre-made folder structures for go-to-market, startup, and ops work, so you don't start from blank.