BYOK
Your money goes to the model providers. Nakami does not host inference and does not resell tokens. Keys sit in the OS keychain, never in files.
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- xAI
Keys, machine, source
Local-first
Nothing leaves your machine. 中身 (nakami) means the contents — what's inside. The board, the keys, the logs, and the diffs stay contained within your computer. Cloud, when it exists, never gates a local feature.
Source-available
Read the repo. There is no telemetry to audit — nothing is collected.
Three flows
Pitch to tickets
Write an epic as a pitch. The planner proposes tickets with goals, checkable criteria, and dependencies. You approve before anything is written to the board.
Verify, then review
The agent cannot declare a ticket done. It runs every acceptance criterion, records the evidence, and only then may the ticket reach review. A human reads the diff.
Defect from a crash
The log drain catches a stack trace. One click hands the crash and surrounding logs to the planner. A defect ticket is drafted, ready for an agent to pick up.
Compare
| Question | Nakami | Metered cloud IDEs | Chat-panel agents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who holds the keys | You. Keys live in the OS keychain, never in files. | The vendor. You buy inference from them. | Typically the vendor; BYOK is sometimes an option. |
| Where code and tickets live | Your machine. Tickets are markdown in the repo. | The vendor's cloud. | The chat transcript. There is no native ticket file. |
| Unit of work | A ticket: one agent, one branch, one reviewable diff. | A cloud agent run or composer session. | A conversation. |
| What done means | A human-reviewed diff. Only a human moves the ticket to done. | The run finishes. Human review is a separate step, if it exists. | The model stops generating. |
| Cost visibility | Input/output tokens and computed cost, rolled up per ticket in the Run Record. | Credits, usage pools, or a monthly seat. | Plan- or message-level; not rolled up to a ticket. |
Pricing
Local: free, complete
The desktop app is free. Every local feature stays free — cloud never gates it.
Organizations: cloud sync, coming
Shared boards, org keys, and hosted runners are a later paid layer. They do not exist yet.