MinGent
A supply chain resistant AI agent.
MinGent works in your files, runs commands and uses its own browser, with models on your own PC. It has no dependency tree: you build it yourself, with the compiler already in Windows.
Download the source Read it on GitHub
1.0.2 beta for Windows 10 and 11. Free and open source.
What it does
Works in your filesEdits code, writes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files, and measures sound files.
Runs commandsBuilds, tests and runs scripts in PowerShell, also in the background.
Browses the webSearches Google in its own browser while you watch, and reads pages and YouTube videos.
Tests its workOpens what it built, clicks through it like a person, fixes what breaks.
Runs on your PCLocal models on its built-in engine, or Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and OpenRouter with your key.
Asks firstAsk, Auto or Full auto: you choose how much it checks with you.
UndoOne click puts back the files it edited in a reply.
PrivateNo telemetry. Offline mode, a list of connections, and erase everything.
No dependency tree
Most AI tools pull in hundreds of packages from npm or PyPI and update themselves. Each one is a way in.
MinGent uses only what comes with Windows. The download is just source:
MinGent-1.0.2-beta.zip
| src | About 66,000 lines of C# |
| Build-MinGent.bat | Builds it with csc.exe from Windows |
| README.txt | How to use it |
| CHANGES.txt | What changed |
| AGENTS.md | Rules for anyone changing the code |
| LICENSE | MIT |
The llama.cpp engine it fetches later is pinned to one release and checked by SHA-256.
Easy to change
It's one folder of plain C#, with no framework in the way. Ask any AI to add what you're missing, then run Build-MinGent.bat again.
AGENTS.md in the download tells that AI how the code is laid out and which rules to keep.
It asks first
Auto mode works on its own but still stops for these. Full auto asks nothing.
- Installing software and packagesOn
- Starting and using other programsOn
- Deleting widely or outside the work folderOn
- Passwords, keys, the clipboard and MinGent's own dataOn
- Payments, passwords and account actionsOn
Private by default
No account, no telemetry, no logs. With a local model, your chats stay on your PC.
Offline mode cuts MinGent's connections, and Erase everything overwrites what it stored.
- Work offlineOff
- Keep an error logOff
Get it
Download the zip from GitHub and check it in PowerShell:
PS> (Get-FileHash .\MinGent-1.0.2-beta.zip).Hash -eq "d7dce5adb104587414c9c4287a689abcb0424aa9021d7bcb2c4bd3fcbe4bf4d7"
True
Extract it and double-click Build-MinGent.bat:
MinGent builder Compiler: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\csc.exe Building MinGent.exe ... Done. MinGent.exe was created here: "C:\Tools\MinGent\MinGent.exe" Start MinGent now? [Y/N]
Windows 10 or 11. Beta: report problems on GitHub.