Trident
Multi‑model  workspace

Multiple AI models,
one unified workspace.

Trident is a desktop AI workspace where Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini run side‑by‑side on the same project. Same documents, same context, two chat panels — pick the right model for each turn.

Free to download. Bring your own API keys. Keys are encrypted and stored locally.

Trident desktop app — two chat panels around a shared document
Providers

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini — together.

Bring your own API keys. Trident routes each turn to the model you pick, with the full project — documents, conversation history, generated images — visible to whichever side is active.

Anthropic

Flagship and legacy models. Long-form thinking, careful editing, the voice that shows up in product copy.

OpenAI

Flagship and legacy models with reasoning effort dialed per conversation — from low latency to slow, careful work.

Gemini

Flagship and legacy models. Deep multi-modal reasoning or fast iteration — pull either side onto the same project at any moment.

Inside Trident

A shared workspace, not a solo chat.

Trident is built around collaboration — between you and the models, and between the models themselves. Every feature is a way to keep that conversation moving on one body of work.

Side-by-side panels

Two models, one project. Bounce a draft between them, ask them to critique each other, or split the work — outline on the left, prose on the right.

Shared documents

Both models — and you — work on the same files. Edits made by either side appear instantly on the other. No copy-pasting between tabs.

Semantic search

Embed a project once and the agent — and the command palette — can search every document by meaning, not keyword.

Image gallery

Generated images live alongside their prompts and the conversation that produced them. Re-run with a different model in one click.

Command palette

⌘K opens to your projects, conversations, and documents. Searches embeddings inline.

Per-turn effort

Dial reasoning effort per conversation — Low for quick passes, Max for slow, careful collaborators. Same model, different temperament.

Made for long projects

When one model isn't enough.

Trident is at its best on the work that takes weeks, not minutes — where the strengths of different models actually compound.

01 · Academia

Writing a master's thesis

Outline a chapter with Sonnet, then have Gemini stress-test the argument against your sources. Switch to Opus for the final pass when the prose has to sing. Every conversation stays attached to the same draft.

long-form drafts citations argument review
02 · Research

Doing primary research

Drop interview transcripts and papers into a project. Ask GPT-5 to surface themes while Claude drafts a synthesis — both reading the same corpus, both citing the same files. Compare the takes side-by-side.

corpus search cross-model review synthesis
03 · Writing

Writing a book

Keep a project per book — chapters, character notes, timeline. Use one panel as your editor, the other as a second reader who's been with the manuscript from page one. Continuity becomes the workspace's job, not yours.

chapter editing continuity developmental notes
04 · Product

Drafting a product spec

One model plays optimist, the other plays critic. The spec doc sits between them, picking up edits from both sides — and from you — until the design is ready to share with the team.

red-teaming scope review trade-offs
05 · Knowledge work

Reviewing a long document

Contracts, RFPs, grant proposals. Ask both panels to flag risks independently — when they agree, you have a real issue. When they disagree, you have a question worth asking.

cross-check risk flagging summarization
06 · Teaching

Building a course

Outline lessons with one model, generate worked examples and exercises with the other — same syllabus document, two voices, all the way through to slides and handouts.

lesson plans examples handouts
How it works

Five minutes to a working setup.

01

Drop in your keys

Paste API keys from any of the three providers. Encrypted at rest, on your disk. No Trident server in the loop.

02

Create a project

Pick a folder. Add documents. Embed the project once and the agent can navigate it by meaning.

03

Open both panels

Two conversations, two models, one project. Swap providers per turn — same context, different perspective.

Image generation

Generate images in the same conversation.

Ask any model to make an image and Trident hands you a config card — write the prompt, pick the image model, set dimensions and quality, and the result drops straight into your project gallery.

1:1 · 3:2 · 2:3 Low · Medium · High quality
Image models
GPT Image 2
OpenAI
GPT Image 1.5
OpenAI
GPT Image 1
OpenAI
GPT Image 1 Mini
OpenAI
Nano Banana 2
Google Gemini
Nano Banana Pro
Google Gemini
Local-first

Your data, your keys, your machine.

Trident is a desktop app. Projects sit in folders on your disk. API requests go directly from your machine to the provider you picked — Trident has no backend that sees your prompts.

Encrypted keystore

Keys are encrypted with your OS keychain. Plain text never touches disk.

Data on disk

Documents, conversations, and embeddings live in a local pglite database right next to your project files. Portable, inspectable, yours.

No telemetry

Trident doesn't phone home. Find a bug? Let us know — we'd appreciate it.

Direct to provider

Every request hits Anthropic, OpenAI or Google directly. Trident is the client, not the middleman.

Download Trident.

v0.9.2 · Apple Silicon + Intel · 88 MB