The bar is low on purpose. lite.computer reads a folder, and your pages are ordinary HTML files. Any AI that can read, save and modify files can work with lite.computer — which today means very nearly all of them.
So the useful question is not whether your AI works. It is what it can do beyond writing.
Agents on your Mac do everything
These write your pages and can be connected to the app itself, which takes a few lines of setup once.
- Claude Code — a terminal, the Claude desktop app, or your editor. Built for long unattended runs, so it suits a job with twenty steps in it.
- Claude Desktop, including the Cowork tab — your files and scheduled work, without a terminal anywhere in sight. A good place to start if you would rather not work in a terminal.
- Codex — OpenAI's agent, in a terminal or built into the ChatGPT desktop app, which now works with your local files and apps through it.
- ChatGPT Work — OpenAI's agent for working across your apps, files and documents. Same rule as the rest: what it can reach depends on where it runs.
- Antigravity — Google's, built on a familiar code editor, with agents that plan a job and then check their own work.
- Cursor, and GitHub Copilot in VS Code — editor-first, if that is where your day already happens.
- Gemini — the Gemini CLI in a terminal, and the Gemini app for Mac, which reads and acts on your Drive and your local files from the desktop.
- Hermes — runs as a permanent process rather than a session, remembering across conversations and working on a schedule. Good for a Showspace that should be current before you open it.
- OpenClaw — reached through the messaging apps you already use. Ask for a page from your phone over Telegram or WhatsApp, and the machine at home writes it.
Windsurf, Cline, Continue and Aider are in the same family, and the list is not meant to be closed. Anything that runs on your Mac, writes where you tell it, and can be pointed at a local tool server will work.
Agents that keep working while you are not
GrokBot is the one to know here, and it sits in neither group above. xAI's agents each run on a cloud computer of their own and sign into your tools the way a person would — so they carry on after you close your laptop.
Point one at a Showspace in Google Drive and it can keep the whole thing current between visits. The daily brief rewritten before you wake up, the client records rebuilt from this morning's export, the dashboard caught up with last night's numbers. You open the app and it is all simply there, because something was working while you were not. Your Mac does not even need to be switched on.
That is the strongest version of what this app is for, and no local agent can do it — they stop when your machine sleeps.
The trade is the one the rest of this page describes, and it is worth knowing rather than worrying about. Because the work happens on a computer that is not yours, GrokBot cannot reach the app to open a page or arrange your screens; that connection listens only to your own Mac. It fills the Showspace; a local agent arranges it. Plenty of people will want one of each. Its Mac app is new enough to be worth testing with one page before you lean on it.
What connecting the app adds
This is the part worth setting up. A connected agent does not just write the page — it can put it in front of you.
- Open a page on your second screen while you keep working on the first.
- Explode your open tabs into a window on every display you own, so the whole desk becomes one dashboard. See Explode and Implode.
- Switch to a different Showspace when you ask for it by name. The agent does the listening; the app takes the name, which is why it matches what you would say rather than a folder path.
- Check the Showspace for broken links and missing images, and then fix them.
Nineteen commands in all — see Every command your AI has.
Away from your desk
You do not have to be sitting at the Mac. Several of these let you start or continue work from your phone while the Mac does it.
- Claude Code Remote Control — pick up a session running on your Mac from the Claude app on your phone, or from a browser.
- Codex — the same idea, from the ChatGPT app.
- Claude Cowork Dispatch — trigger your desktop Cowork session from your phone by scanning a code once. Aimed at people who do not want a terminal at all.
- Hermes and OpenClaw — reached through the messaging apps you already use, so you ask in Telegram or WhatsApp and the Mac gets on with it.
All of these keep the work on your machine, which is the part that matters here: your phone is the remote, and the Mac is still the thing writing into your Showspace and driving the app. The Mac does need to be awake.
From a browser, with nothing installed
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok on the web can reach a Showspace kept in Google Drive, through a connector you switch on in their settings. (That is Grok the assistant, in a browser or on your phone — GrokBot above is xAI's separate agent product.)
Reading works well, and it is genuinely useful. Asking what last week's brief said, from a phone, on a Showspace your desktop agent wrote — that is exactly what this is good for.
Writing works too, on the products and plans that support it. ChatGPT and Grok both document Drive actions that create and update files, and Gemini reads and acts on Drive natively, being Google's. The quickest way to know where you stand is to ask yours to save one real .html file into the folder and watch whether it turns up in the app. A minute, and it settles the question for your product and your plan better than any page written earlier can.
The limits, and what to use instead
A short list, and every item on it has a route that works — usually the same tool in a different place.
- An assistant running only on a company's servers cannot control the app. The app's connection for agents is a small server on your own Mac that listens only to your own Mac, so nothing running elsewhere can reach it. It can still read and, depending on the product, write your pages through Drive — and if you want the driving too, the same company's desktop agent gives you it.
- Chatting in a web page is not the same as running on your Mac. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini each have a desktop app that works with your local files; the browser version of the same product does not. If a page you expected never appears, that is usually which one you were talking to.
- Claude's Google Drive integration reaches Google Docs, not your HTML pages. This is only about the web and phone apps — Claude Code or Claude Desktop on your Mac has no such limit.
- A browser assistant cannot reach iCloud Drive at all. No major one offers an iCloud connector today. If reaching your pages from a browser matters, keep the Showspace in Google Drive instead — see Where to put your Showspace.
- Hermes or OpenClaw running on a server somewhere else will still write into a synced folder, but it is not on your Mac, so it cannot drive the app. Run it on the Mac if you want both.
- Your Mac has to be awake for anything driven from a phone. The phone is a remote, not a second computer.
Every one of those has a route that does work, and it is usually the same tool in a different place.
Picking one
Most people end up with two: an agent on the Mac that writes the pages, and whatever assistant is on their phone for reading them later.
- Comfortable in a terminal — Claude Code or Codex CLI.
- You would rather not use a terminal — Claude Desktop.
- You want the Showspace already up to date when you open it — GrokBot, with the Showspace in Google Drive. It keeps working while your Mac is off, which nothing else here does.
- You want pages current without asking — either an agent that runs on a schedule, such as Hermes or scheduled work in Cowork, or better for anything data-driven: have any of them write you a small script and run that on a schedule instead. Steadier and cheaper than waking a model every hour.
- You want to ask from your phone and have it happen at home — OpenClaw.
- You are in a code editor all day anyway — Cursor, Antigravity, or Copilot in VS Code.
- You work mostly from a browser or a phone — keep the Showspace in Google Drive and run the one-file test above.
You are not choosing once
Any local agent you point at the folder writes ordinary HTML files into it. Nothing here ties you to one: change your mind, change agents, and every page you already have is exactly where you left it, still opening in any browser on earth.
That is the whole reason the app reads a folder rather than a service.
The quickest way to find out is to try it. The trial is the complete app for fourteen days, with no account and no card, so you can point whatever AI you already use at a folder this afternoon and see what comes back. See The 14-day trial.