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From download to your first session is a few clicks.
Palette Desktop is a local Mac app. It runs on your machine, not in a browser. Download it from palette.team.
On Windows? We're working on it. Sign up for the waitlist on the same page and we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.
Palette Desktop opens to a welcome screen with three paths:
If you point at a folder your team already syncs, the whole team is in. No invite flow, no separate workspace to set up.
When you create a new folder, you can check Include the starting guide. We recommend it for your first folder.
The starting guide opens a guided first chat that:
By the end, you've got a real workflow you can run, not just an empty folder.
Whether you used the starting guide or not, you're now in your first session. A session is a sandboxed clone of your folder. The agent works inside the clone, so nothing touches your real folder until you decide.
Inside a session, you run chats. Pick Claude Code or Codex per chat. Different chats in the same session can use different agents. You can also run multiple sessions in parallel.
Palette Desktop checks if Claude Code or Codex is already on your machine. If not, it walks you through installing it. You'll need your own Claude or Codex subscription for the model itself.
When you're done, review every change the agent made. Then save the session back to the shared folder.
Nothing writes to the shared folder until you approve it. That's what makes it safe for the whole team to work in the same folder.