Triplo AI Documentation

Everything you need, from your first prompt to a private knowledge base your other AI tools can query.

What is Triplo AI?

Triplo AI is a desktop assistant that puts an AI model one keystroke away, inside whatever app you are already using. There is no integration to install, no tab to switch to, and no copy-paste dance. You select some text in your email client, press a key, and the rewritten version replaces it in place.

That is the whole idea. Everything else in this documentation exists to make that one action smarter: pointing it at the model you want, giving it standing instructions about who you are, grounding it in documents you trust, and chaining it to systems you already run.

Triplo AI runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is built by Elbruz Technologies.

The Triplo AI prompt bar floating over the desktop — The whole interface: a model, your standing context, your knowledge base, and somewhere to type.

New here? Getting Started takes you from download to a working result inside another app in about five minutes. Then read Core Concepts — it is the shortest path past Triplo's learning curve.

What you can do with it

Act on selected text

Highlight text anywhere, press a hotkey, and the result is pasted back where your cursor was. The app you were in never loses focus for more than a moment.

Ask anything, fast

Option+Space opens a floating prompt bar over whatever is on screen. Type, get an answer, dismiss it.

Use any model

Free models included with your licence, your own API keys, or a model running locally on your own machine. Same interface for all three.

Ground answers in your documents

Build a Mind from files, web pages and notes. Triplo searches it locally and feeds only the relevant parts to the model.

Trigger real systems

Automations turn a sentence into an authenticated API call — create the CRM lead, post to the channel, file the ticket.

Hand work to an agent

Pi ships inside Triplo: the same hotkey reaches an agent that reads, runs and edits inside a folder you approve, on a model of your own. Run a Hermes gateway and Triplo connects to that one too.

Serve your knowledge to other AI tools

Triplo can run a local MCP server, so Claude Code, Cowork or any MCP client can search your Minds directly.

The rewrite happens in the bar. Run the same words as a SmartPrompt on a hotkey and Triplo pastes the result back where your cursor was.

Allowance models come with the licence; a local model is one click away in the same selector — the interface never changes.

Where to go next

Start here

Getting Started

Install, activate, grant permissions, and get your first result in five minutes.

Core Concepts

The eight objects Triplo is built from, and how a prompt is actually assembled.

Everyday use

Models & Connections

Allowance models, your own API keys, and local models via Ollama or LM Studio.

Prompting

SmartPrompts, awareness tags, attachments, scraping, voice and languages.

Chat & Responses

Multi-turn mode, regenerating, editing a sent message, and history.

Hotkeys

The three tiers of shortcut, and running a prompt without opening the window.

Make it yours

Instructions

Standing context about who you are and how you want to be answered.

Training

Private knowledge bases, indexed and searched entirely on your machine.

Automations

Let a sentence fire an authenticated webhook or API call.

Magnets

Pin a model, instruction, Mind and automation to a single SmartPrompt.

Connect, sync and reference

Agents

Pi ships inside Triplo — terminal, files, tools — behind your global hotkey. Hermes connects itself when you run one.

MCP Server

Let other AI agents search your Minds over a local, token-protected endpoint.

Devices & Sync

Multiple machines, shared prompts, and full backup and restore.

Advanced Usage

Your whole setup is Markdown files. Edit them, diff them, commit them.

Troubleshooting

Symptom-to-fix tables and every error message the app can show you.

How to read these docs

Every feature page follows the same six-part shape, so you always know where to look:

What it is — the problem it solves, in plain language.
How to reach it — the exact menu path or keystroke.
Step by step — numbered actions you can follow.
Configuration — every option, its default and its effect.
Example — one real scenario, start to finish.
Limits & gotchas — caps, permissions and platform differences.

Notation used throughout

Option+Space

A keyboard shortcut. macOS keys are shown; on Windows and Linux, Cmd means Ctrl and Option means Alt.

Settings

Something you click in the Triplo AI window.

~/Documents

A file path, a command, or literal text you type.

Paid plan

This feature is gated by your licence. Without a valid key, it is available; with one, your plan decides. See plan permissions.

One word for one thing

A knowledge base in Triplo AI is called a Mind. That is the word used on disk, in the file formats and in the MCP tools, and it is the word used everywhere in this documentation. In the app's action grid the same feature is currently labelled Training — they are the same thing.

This documentation covers 7.0

Version 7.0 is a substantial re-architecture. Minds are now backed by a folder of Markdown files on your disk, searched by a semantic index that runs entirely offline. Your prompts, instructions and automations are plain Markdown you can edit in any text editor. And Triplo can now act as a knowledge server for other AI tools.

If you are coming from 6.x, read What's New in 7.0 first — it lists what moved, what was renamed, and what migrates automatically.

You can check your installed version at any time under Help & About.