A local-first coding agent that does the work — research, writing, planning, and code — and runs entirely on your machine.
Local-first · Any model · The doer
An agent built to do, not just chat
Local-first engine
Arescode runs on your machine. Your code, sessions, and history stay on your device. The core engine works without an Ares Realm account or telemetry; optional sign-in is only for licensed or hosted services you choose.
Any model you want
Bring your own provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, local models, and more. Switch models per task, set a default per agent, and keep full control of where your tokens go.
A real doer
Not a chat box. Arescode plans, reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, searches the web, and verifies its own work — coding-first, but capable across research, writing, and everyday tasks.
Desktop, CLI & editor
The same engine powers a native desktop app, a terminal CLI, and a VS Code integration — pick the surface that fits the moment without changing how the agent thinks.
Themes you own
A curated set of built-in themes plus a built-in theme creator — pick a handful of colors, preview live, and save your own. Validated against our public desktop-theme.json schema.
Your instructions, your rules
Shape how the agent behaves with editable instructions, custom agents and personas, and a memory that learns your project — all without touching the source.
Plugin bridge
A clean plugin surface lets other tools drive Arescode — including Project EV3RLY IDE, which orchestrates it as its agent engine.
Yours, end to end
Built by Ares Realm Studios as a standalone engine. No upstream cloud product, no public sharing, no forced login — it answers to you and the machine it runs on.
Arescode + Project EV3RLY IDE
Arescode is the engine. Project EV3RLY IDE is the workspace being built around it. They talk through a plugin bridge, so the IDE orchestrates real agent work while Arescode keeps running standalone for everyone else.
Arescode — the engine
Sessions, agents, tools, language servers, git, model providers, and the local server. It does the thinking and the doing, and exposes it over a typed API and a plugin surface.
Project EV3RLY IDE — the cockpit
The editor and orchestration layer. It drives Arescode through the bridge — launching sessions, routing tasks, and weaving the agent into your everyday development flow.
EV3RLY IDE ⇄ plugin bridge ⇄ Arescode engine
Reference & schemas
Config schema
JSON Schema for arescode.json — autocomplete & validation in your editor.
Theme schema
JSON Schema for desktop theme files — used by the built-in theme creator.
/arescode/desktop-theme.jsonAgents & commands
Configure agents, models, and slash commands. Full documentation coming soon.
/arescode/docs · soonThemes guide
Build and share your own themes from nine seed colors. Documentation coming soon.
/arescode/docs/themes · soonWant in early?
Arescode is being built in the open by Ares Realm Studios alongside Project EV3RLY IDE. Drop into Discord to follow progress, test early builds, and help shape where it goes.