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# Meet Faros Desktop

Faros Desktop aggregates your AI coding activity so you can understand where time and money are spent, revisit earlier work, and decide which improvements to make.

## Find Your Way Around

| Screen    | Use it to                                                                         |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| For You   | See your AI activity, recommendations, and changes Faros has handled.             |
| Work      | Explore projects, tasks, time, and estimated spend.                               |
| Sessions  | Find conversations, explore Session trail, and review artifacts or team activity. |
| Power Ups | Discover and manage skills, optimizations, extensions, and integrations.          |

Lumi highlights one useful observation at a time on For You. Follow its link to investigate or act.

Faros Agent reads and analyzes supported session history locally. Faros Helper provides the menu bar experience and notifications. These background components can continue working after the main Desktop window closes.

## A Useful First Visit

1. Complete setup and let Faros read your selected tools' history.
2. Open For You to see the shape of your activity.
3. Open Work to investigate a project, or Sessions to inspect a conversation.
4. Review Power Ups and choose what to enable.

## Read Figures in Context

Estimated spend uses model pricing and recorded usage; it may differ from your provider's bill or subscription. Summaries and classifications help you navigate, but can be incomplete or mistaken. Open the underlying session when the details matter.

## Supported Coding Workflows

Faros Desktop supports Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, and Antigravity. Coverage may differ based on the assistant, mode, feature, and installed build; a listed assistant does not mean support for every chat mode, analysis, or optimization. 

Faros Desktop is best on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later) capable of running Apple Intelligence / Apple Foundation Models. Follow the release-specific macOS requirements in [Install and Set Up](/getting-started/install-and-set-up.md). Windows and Linux support are coming soon.

## Related Guides

* [Install and Set Up](/getting-started/install-and-set-up.md)
* [Understand Your AI Activity](/for-you/understand-your-ai-activity.md)


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