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Run multiple AI agents in parallel. Automatic failover. Own your data. Pay once. 100% private.
Why Purple Deadnettle
Offline by Design
Your work stays on your machine, period. The Rust runtime never phones home — all external integrations talk through a local bridge protocol, so your data isn't going anywhere you didn't send it.
Task Queues That Think Ahead
Line up your work however it makes sense — run tasks in parallel to tear through a backlog, or chain them sequentially so your dev tasks finish before QA picks up the results. Repeat a task ten times, batch an entire sprint, or build full pipelines where one agent's output feeds the next.
Open-Source Bridge
The bridge protocol that connects PDN to your CLI agents is fully open source. Inspect it, extend it, trust it. No black boxes between your workbench and the tools doing the actual work.
Automatic Model Failover
Claude out of credits? OpenAI picks up the slack — automatically. No broken pipelines, no lost work, no 2am intervention required. PDN switches models mid-task so your workflow never stops because one provider tapped out.
Your AI agents, orchestrated
Stop babysitting one terminal at a time. Purple Deadnettle lets you hand a full task list to your CLI agents and watch them go — multiple agents running in parallel, each in its own bridge session and project directory. Think of it as air-traffic control for your AI workforce: every agent gets its own runway while PDN keeps the flight plan straight.
Feed it ten tasks or a hundred. PDN queues them up, routes each one to the right agent binding, and keeps everything moving. You get a live terminal viewer for every running session, full transcript capture, and the ability to pause, cancel, or reprioritize on the fly. No more copy-pasting prompts into separate windows and hoping you remember which tab was doing what.
It's the difference between herding cats and conducting an orchestra.
Built with Rust & SQLite
Purple Deadnettle is a Rust egui desktop application backed by a single SQLite database, with an optional Python bridge for external tool and LLM execution. It delivers a task-focused workbench where every action is traceable, every execution is deterministic, and your data never leaves your machine.
How it ships
One Binary. One Directory. Done.
No installer, no setup wizard, no registry keys. Drop the binary in a folder and run it — that's the whole install. Your database, your config, your transcripts all live right there in the same directory. The bridge handles everything outside of it.
Perpetual License. No DRM. It's Yours.
You buy it, you own it — forever. No subscriptions, no phone-home activation, no DRM. The license is tied to you as a person, not a machine. Use it on your work laptop, your home desktop, your weird Linux box in the closet. It's your tool.
Windows & Linux at Launch
PDN ships for Windows and Linux on day one. macOS is coming — we're just waiting for a Mac to go on sale at Costco.