Solace Agent Mesh as a Desktop App, and Free!

Agent Mesh now ships as a single installer for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Runtime, event broker, and UI in one application. Bring an LLM API key and nothing else.

Until now, trying Solace Agent Mesh meant standing up infrastructure first. That prerequisite is gone.

What ships in the bundle:

  • The full Agent Mesh runtime, an in-memory event broker, and the UI, packaged as one application. There is no broker to provision and no configuration beyond connecting your LLM provider on first launch.
  • The SAM CLI, included. No second download. Add it to your PATH and the full command set is there.
  • Installers that respect locked-down machines. Windows installs per-user under %LOCALAPPDATA% with no administrator privileges. On macOS you can drag the app to a folder your own account owns instead of /Applications. Linux ships .deb, .rpm, and a portable archive that runs without sudo.
  • A one-click diagnostics export from User Account > Support, containing the application log, crash reports, and a version summary. Sessions, artifacts, and API keys are never included.
  • Environment variable overrides through a .env file, so you can point the bundle at a real Solace event broker or switch on RBAC when you want to see those in action.
  • Free to use – always free for individuals and companies making less than $25M/year in revenue. No credit card required.

Quick look at how to build an agent

The part that outlasts the evaluation

Agent Mesh uses one declarative configuration model across every environment. The agents, models, entrypoints, and tools you define on a laptop are expressed as the same configuration a production deployment applies, so nothing gets rebuilt on the way out. Pull it and apply it:

sam config pull -o ./pulled –target desktop –manifest-name manifest.yaml

sam config apply -m ./pulled/manifests/manifest.yaml –target prod

Quick note of caution

This desktop bundle is for evaluating and building, not for running a production workload. Everything here sits in one process on an in-memory event broker, without production-grade storage or authentication, so it is not supported for team or production workloads.

A handful of built-in tools need engines the bundle does not carry, including html_to_pdf and mermaid_diagram_generator (Chromium), image_magick, and ffmpeg. Install the engine and restart, or use a Kubernetes deployment where they are already in place. A tool with a missing engine fails with a clear message and leaves the rest of the application running.

Get it now

Download the installer for your platform, connect your provider, and ask the Orchestrator what it can do. When you are ready for real traffic, Agent Mesh can be deployed via Kubernetes/self-hosted or fully-managed via Solace Cloud.

One more thing

If you are an individual user or your enterprise makes less than $25M/year in revenue, you can use the Solace Agent Mesh in production for free.