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Get Action Stations

Action Stations is source-available and free for your organization’s internal use and for education. There is no account to create and nothing to sign in to.Installers are published on the releases page with the release notes and file checksums.

Open the releases page

macOS

Download the .dmg from the latest release. Apple Silicon (arm64).

Windows

You will download the installer (.exe) from the latest release. 64-bit (x64). Not published yet: join the mailing list to hear when it is.

Linux

You will download the .AppImage from the latest release. 64-bit (x64) desktop distributions. Not published yet: join the mailing list to hear when it is.

License

Action Stations is licensed under the PolyForm Internal Use License 1.0.0 with an additional permission for education. Your organization may run it, change it and run exercises for its own people at no cost, and schools, colleges and universities may use it for teaching, coursework and research. Consulting, training or facilitation for other organizations, reselling, hosting it for others and publishing modified versions need a commercial license. See License & commercial use.

After you install

  1. Open the app. The setup wizard offers to detect local model servers and to open an example project.
  2. Add a text model: start LM Studio or Ollama on this computer and click Detect local services, or paste an Anthropic API key under Providers.
  3. Create a project, import your plans, and follow the checklist on the project overview.

The getting started guide walks through a full exercise with screenshots.

What “local-first” means here

  • Your projects, documents and generated media are stored on your disk, in folders you choose.
  • The app sends nothing anywhere except to the providers you add. There is no telemetry.
  • With local models (LM Studio, Ollama, ComfyUI and the system voice) it works with no internet connection.
  • API keys for hosted providers are encrypted by your operating system’s keychain.

Build from source

If no installer is listed for your platform yet, run the app from source. You need Node.js 22.12 or later and pnpm 10.

git clone https://github.com/mdcrowley/actionstations.git
cd actionstations
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Platform prerequisites (build tools for the SQLite module) are in the README.

Check a download

Compare the SHA-256 of the file you downloaded with the checksum on the release page:

# macOS / Linux
shasum -a 256 <file>
# Windows (PowerShell)
Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256