Straight answers, including the ones that are no.
No. No account, no sign-in, no licence key. Download it and open it.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. There is no macOS or Linux build today.
Pricing is not settled yet, so there is nothing to trial against. When it is, this page will say so plainly.
SmartScreen, because the installer is not code-signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway — and know that we would rather that warning were not there.
Your files stay on your disk. What is sent to the model is the context needed to answer — the parts of files being worked on, command output, and what you typed. Eshlon does not store your work.
The application and your files are local, but the model is served over the network. Without a connection, there is no model.
Yes, and that is much of the point. The approval control in the composer decides whether it asks first. Start with approvals on if you would rather see each one.
One model, called Eshlon 1.0, at three levels of reasoning effort. There is no model picker and no API key. We did not train it, and we are not going to imply we did.
Build ships software. Slides makes decks. Docs writes long documents. Deep Research reads widely and writes it up. Swarm splits a job across many workers. Each has its own instructions and its own idea of finished.
Build. It is the default.
No. The agent is fixed for a conversation, because switching would change the instructions underneath work already in progress.
Hours. Three-hour runs are the case it was built and tested for.
Seventy-five, generated from the official MCP registry rather than hand-written.
Those are two different things. Installing adds it to your configuration; connecting signs you in. Press Connect. Eighteen connectors need no sign-in at all.
Usually a credential the vendor did not declare in its listing. Every installed plugin has a credentials editor on its page — add the key it wants and reconnect.
Fifteen currently cannot. Their providers require a pre-registered application instead of letting one register itself. That is provider policy rather than a bug, and it is being worked on.
Usually because the vendor has not published an MCP server. Several large ones have not. If it is not on the shelf it generally does not exist rather than having been left out.
Decks as PDF, PPTX, PNG and SVG. Documents as PDF.
No. It can read them; there is no writer for either. The site used to claim otherwise and that was wrong.
Not today. There are seven built-in themes and an editor for adjusting the result.
Into the folder you are working in, like any other program.
Check the swarm panel if a swarm is running — six workers run at a time and the rest queue, so a quiet conversation usually means every slot is busy. A long command with no output can also look stalled while it is working.
This used to happen for a real reason: a watchdog restarted the engine when a health check went unanswered, and a busy engine does not answer health checks. That capability was removed. If a run still stops, it is a bug worth reporting.
Contact details go here once support is set up. Until then, if you know how to reach us, do.