Kitchen Table turns any folder on your Mac into a live, private app. Ask your agent to build it, then hand the people you choose a link — no server, no signup, no deploy.
Deploying small software still means cloud accounts, hosting bills, and CI pipelines — just to send someone a link. Kitchen Table is the entire cloud, quietly running on your desk.
Every agent gets a first-class MCP interface — it can scaffold the app, write the files, set who can see it, and mint a share link, start to finish, in one conversation.
Every new device asks permission, like pairing Bluetooth — right from a desktop notification you can approve or deny without opening the app. And every open and deploy is logged, so you always know who touched what.
Technical or not — if you use agents or artifacts to make personal tools, this is your deploy target.
Family and friends install nothing and create nothing. They tap a link or scan a QR, and they're in.
Sprint boards, trackers, dashboards, prototypes — with roles and a team library on the paid tier.
Serving a copy while your Mac sleeps means our servers hold that copy. True end-to-end means the link dies with your machine. You can't have both at once — so you choose, per app, the moment you switch the relay on.
"Should this app stay reachable when this machine is asleep?"
The link keeps working even when your laptop is asleep.
The operator could not read it if it wanted to.
No arbitrary code runs on your host in v1 — the only code that executes is the JavaScript in a viewer's own browser, sandboxed by the browser.
One app can never read another app's storage.
Invited & private apps run Strict — the relay sees only ciphertext.
Every new device asks first — like Bluetooth pairing.
Every open & deploy is visible to you, the owner.
Never. A viewer taps a link, sees a one-moment “shared with you” screen while their device pairs, and they are in the app. No login, no install, no account — ever, in the free tier.
On the free local tier the link pauses while your machine is asleep. On the paid Table tier it depends on the app’s relay mode: Standard-mode apps keep working from an encrypted snapshot (writes queue and reconcile when you wake), while Strict-mode apps stay fully private and simply go dark until you’re back.
Yes. Everything is local-first in plain folders on your machine. On the relay you pick per app: Strict apps are end-to-end (the relay sees only ciphertext, even in principle), Standard apps are encrypted in transit and at rest. Apps are strictly isolated from each other, and every access is logged for you.
The desktop app, the protocol, and the CLI are open source under a permissive license. The relay protocol is open and self-hostable — the paid product is the hosted convenience and team features.
That is the whole point. A built-in MCP server lets any agent list, create, write, set visibility, mint invite links, read storage and logs — everything the UI can do — end to end in one conversation.
No. If you can ask an agent to build a tool and drop a folder somewhere, you can share it. The person sharing might not think of themselves as a developer at all.
Turn the folder you already have into something you can hand to anyone. Free, open source, running on your desk in minutes.