Gold Band is a desktop AI Agent client for local projects. It connects to local Agents such as Claude Code and Codex through Agent Client Protocol (ACP), providing one place for conversations, workspaces, permissions, attachments, history, and runtime observability. You can use it as a regular Agent client for continuous conversations, or run longer and more complex Coding tasks through fixed workflows or AI-driven orchestration with validation and failure recovery.
Why Gold Band Local Coding Agents are already powerful, but their conversations, configuration, and execution models remain fragmented. Complex tasks also suffer from context drift, weak independent validation, and poor recovery after failure. Gold Band provides a unified desktop entry point: - Use an Agent directly for simple work without adding workflow constraints. - Use fixed workflows to separate planning, development, review, testing, and acceptance. - Let AI dynamically decompose open-ended goals while Gold Band manages runtime state and boundaries. - Keep conversations, attachments, artifacts, tokens, duration, and interaction requests in one recoverable record. Core Capabilities - Direct Agent: continuously chat with a selected Agent without injecting a Gold Band runtime system prompt. - WORKFLOW: organize development, review, testing, acceptance, and failure loops in a visual workflow. - AUTO / AI-DYNAMIC: let AI dynamically split, parallelize, merge, and validate work within runtime constraints. - Recoverable ACP sessions: support streaming, follow-up prompts, history recovery, session reuse, and optional external session sync. - Unified session configuration: choose models, thought levels, permission modes, and Agent Slash Commands from the composer. - Attachments and artifacts: support file selection, drag-and-drop, pasted images, previews, and node artifact archival. - Runtime observability: inspect Agent messages, tool calls, system prompts, raw frames, tokens, duration, and runtime state. - Agent and context management: manage Agents, Profiles, MCP, SKILL, and user-level or project-level context. - Desktop experience: system notifications, responsive windows, themes, and customizable user and Agent avatars.
English Experience Improvements 1. Direct background stop fixes 1. Fixed Stop doing nothing when a background question appeared after a scheduled task woke the Agent. Stop now acts on the background work correctly: a pending permission request is recorded as cancelled, a pending question is answered with cancel, and the session no longer stays stuck waiting. 2. Permission requests and questions that arrive while a reply is running now settle with that turn instead of staying in the session after you stop; processed interactions are no longer rolled back to pending by newer live content. 2. Background activity no longer sticks Some Agents never send the final update for tools after being stopped, which kept the sidebar showing the session as active, left the stop button up forever, and stopped resident sessions from ever being reclaimed. Tools now settle when their owning turn ends or when background work is stopped, and the session returns to idle after 10 seconds without activity. 3. Model menu fix in narrow panes When the conversation pane is narrow, the secondary menu for the model and thinking effort used to be squeezed to the window's left edge and cover the sidebar. When there is no room, it now expands in place inside the main menu (click or use the arrow keys); when there is enough space it still pops out on hover as before. 4. Other improvements 1. Updated the ACP Registry snapshot and Agent catalog.
Yes. Gold Band is free and open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0-only license.
What is the latest version of Gold Band?
The latest version is 0.19.1, released on Oct 13, 2026.
Is it safe to download Gold Band?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with f817fc05faa48194796cf7afafbcde0647822f1a65a163f8a3519718c1e41530.
Which Windows versions does Gold Band support?
Gold Band runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
How do I install Gold Band silently?
Run the offline installer with "Gold.Band_0.19.1_x64-setup.exe" /S, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=Diodeme.GoldBand -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Gold Band?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Gold Band and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=Diodeme.GoldBand -e.
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