Craft Agents is an AI-powered Mac application from the makers of Craft that lets you query, synthesize, and act across multiple data sources — documents, databases, and external services — through a conversational interface.
What is Craft Agents?
Craft Agents is an intelligent assistant layer built on top of Craft's document ecosystem, purpose-built to bridge the gap between the information you have scattered across tools and the answers you actually need. Where a standard AI chatbot is limited to whatever you paste into the prompt, Craft Agents maintains live connections to your data sources so it can pull, compare, and reason across all of them in a single conversation.
Think of it less as a chatbot and more as a research partner that already has access to your filing cabinet — one that doesn't need you to copy-paste twenty documents before it can help you.
What does Craft Agents do best?
Craft Agents excels at cross-source reasoning — asking a question that requires stitching together information from several places at once and getting a coherent, sourced answer. Instead of opening five tabs and mentally reconciling contradictory notes, you type a natural-language question and the agent traverses your connected sources, surfaces relevant context, and drafts a response that cites where each piece came from.
- Multi-source queries: Run a single question across documents, databases, and third-party integrations simultaneously.
- Context-aware synthesis: Agents don't just retrieve snippets — they interpret relationships between pieces of content before responding.
- Conversational iteration: Follow-up questions refine the scope without re-explaining context from scratch.
- Action-oriented outputs: Results can feed back into Craft documents, making it easy to turn a research session into a finished deliverable.
Who should use Craft Agents?
Craft Agents is best suited for knowledge workers who already live inside Craft for notes and documents and find themselves constantly switching contexts to pull information from other tools. Researchers, product managers, consultants, and writers who maintain large, interconnected knowledge bases will feel the payoff most immediately.
If your workflow is simpler — a handful of documents, occasional lookups — Craft's built-in AI features or even a general-purpose assistant like Claude or ChatGPT may be sufficient. Craft Agents earns its place when the data landscape is genuinely sprawling and the cost of manually hunting across sources is eating your day.
Power users who have invested in building a rich Craft workspace will find Agents transforms that investment from an archive into an active thinking tool. Those who haven't adopted Craft as a primary workspace yet may want to start there before layering Agents on top.
Is Craft Agents free?
Craft Agents is available to download from the official Craft site. Pricing details and plan tiers are managed through the Craft ecosystem — check agents.craft.do for the current offering, as access may be bundled with Craft Pro or offered as a standalone tier. Craft has historically offered free tiers with usage limits, so there is likely a way to try Agents before committing.
How does Craft Agents compare to Notion AI or Obsidian?
Notion AI is the closest comparable: it lives inside a productivity workspace and answers questions about your content. The meaningful difference is that Craft Agents is designed from the ground up around multi-source connectivity rather than within-workspace summarization. Notion AI is excellent at "summarise this page" or "draft a table from these notes"; Craft Agents is aimed at "what do all my sources say about X, and where do they conflict?"
Obsidian, by contrast, has a plugin ecosystem (Copilot, Smart Connections) that approximates similar functionality, but it requires assembly and ongoing maintenance. Craft Agents is a polished, native Mac application — there is no plugin configuration, no manual index rebuild, no debugging Dataview queries. If you prefer Obsidian's open format and local-first philosophy, that ecosystem will always be more flexible. If you want something that works out of the box with a Mac-native feel, Craft Agents has a clear edge.
What are the best Craft Agents alternatives?
The nearest rivals depend on your existing stack. Notion AI if you're Notion-native. Mem.ai for an AI-first personal knowledge base with similar cross-note querying. Rewind if you want your AI assistant to cover everything on your Mac, not just structured documents. Perplexity for web-sourced research rather than internal knowledge. None of these replaces Craft Agents if Craft is already your document home — but if you're choosing a stack from scratch, the choice of assistant often follows the choice of notes app.
