Introducing the OpenPond App
Today, we are introducing the OpenPond app for macOS, Linux, and Windows: a new interface designed to orchestrate multiple OpenPond Agents at once, pay agents autonomously, bring your own model to create and use your agents, and stay open source.
The OpenPond App changes how wallet-based agents are built, paid for, and used. Instead of working with a single prompt agent to accomplish a task, you can coordinate teams of agents that autonomously pay for services across your daily workflow.
The OpenPond App starts from a local chat surface that can route work to agents and models.
Since we began developing OpenPond Agents in early 2025, the way agents are viewed has fundamentally changed. Users and the larger crypto community are adapting their services to use crypto as the payment rail between agents.
The OpenPond App is our next step in pushing that design space forward: all the power of our policy-scoped agent wallets, usable on your personal computer.
The app brings OpenPond wallet and account controls into the desktop workflow.
Build and Orchestrate Powerful Agents
OpenPond Agents are code-based, so creating them often requires resources that are not available in our web environment. The OpenPond App provides a managed local workspace for your OpenPond Agents by setting up directories and abstracting the workflows for deploying, testing, and running agents, so non-developers can still harness the power of our agents.
We still surface all of the primitives for developers, so the experience matches your common flow. At the end of the day, it is git-based repositories and our OpenTool deployment engine.
Our harness is fully open source. While we are not accepting contributions at this moment, we will be constantly updating it to match the level of tooling you expect, including goal tracking, auto compaction, and memory updating.
The agents dashboard gives teams a compact view of running and deployable agents.
Pay Agents with the Machine Payments Protocol
The Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), developed by Tempo and Stripe, allows agents to easily pay for services. We have extended the OpenTool Runtime to add support for MPP, so all agents can now pay for services using this protocol.
This architectural shift opens the design landscape of OpenPond Agents beyond strictly trading strategies and into everyday tasks. We have added first-class support for the Tempo blockchain in openpond.ai as well as this app.
Agents can discover services that support machine payments directly inside the app.
Here are some examples of what can be built with MPP:
The Breaking News Frontrunner monitors global news wires like Hacker News, Browserbase, and social feeds in real time, using MPP to instantly pay for paywalled access or premium verification services to confirm major events before they impact the charts.
The Deep Research Synthesizer automates the grunt work of due diligence by renting multi-hop search power from Parallel.ai via MPP to scrape hundreds of technical blogs and cross-reference competitor whitepapers into a single briefing.
The AgentMail Orchestrator serves as your autonomous communication hub, using MPP to settle micro-payments for encrypted message routing and priority delivery to ensure time-sensitive project updates bypass spam filters and land at the top of partner inboxes.
Under the Hood: OpenPond Git and the CLI
This release formalizes OpenPond Git, our alternative to GitHub-style hosting for agent-native apps. We have been building our own git-based file hosting system so agents can modify, review, deploy, and ship apps without fighting a repo workflow designed only for humans.
A managed local workspace keeps agent context, files, logs, and chat in one place.
OpenPond Git keeps familiar primitives like commits, branches, and pull requests, but adapts them for managed agent workflows. The key difference is that the coding agent is treated as a first-class software actor. It can propose changes, commit to scoped branches, create preview deployments, and promote approved previews to production as part of the product flow.
That does not mean handing the model a generic Git credential and hoping it behaves. OpenPond gives the agent scoped tools for changing an app, committing those changes, validating them, creating previews, and shipping to production on behalf of an authenticated user and team. Git remains the ledger, but OpenPond owns the workflow and the permission model.
You can see this model in the OpenPond App. The desktop app uses the same OpenPond workflow: agents edit a workspace, validate the change, commit it, push it to OpenPond Git, create a preview, and then promote or start the app through OpenPond-managed actions. The agent is working through product tools, not bypassing the product with a raw deploy key.
In other words, this is what it would feel like if your coding agent were a native collaborator in your repository, not an external bot bolted onto it.
The openpond-code CLI has also been upgraded into a full OpenPond access layer. You can now deploy, start, and stop agents, as well as access account information, from the CLI. OpenPond App uses openpond-code under the hood, which means you can hand the same CLI to another harness and still get full use of your OpenPond agents.
Bring Your Own Key: AskVenice and Codex
The OpenPond App is designed to be an open chat and agent ecosystem. We believe users should have the freedom to choose the brain behind their agents. The desktop app now allows you to seamlessly bring your own API keys from the world's leading intelligence providers.
Users can work with OpenPond Chat or connect their own model provider.
We offer first-class support for the privacy-first inference provider Venice and allow you to reuse your Codex subscription. On top of that, we provide OpenPond Chat, our default v1.4 model specialized for this harness.
The app is currently rolling out to beta users over this next week and will be mirrored on the openpond.ai web app.
OpenPond Chat replaces the Pond v1.3 AI model.
Original X announcement: openpondai/status/2055069731028426952