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About Iliad

Iliad MD is a free, open-source (MIT) markdown editor for macOS with a built-in AI agent. The agent works inside your document, under your eye — it drafts and edits in place, and every change is reviewed before it stays. Your writing lives in plain .md files on your disk: any other app or AI can open the same folder, and your prose goes only to the AI provider you choose, with your own key (OpenAI API key or Codex login today). Requires macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon.

What Iliad is

Iliad is a writing tool, not a knowledge base and not a chat window. One beautiful editor where markdown renders as you type, and an agent that works in the document beside your cursor — drafting, tightening, fixing — with every change shown as a reviewable edit before it stays. Nothing leaves your machine unless you ask the agent to act, and then only your chosen provider sees it, on your own key.

The folder on disk is the whole thing. No vault, no proprietary format, no cloud copy. Open the same files in Obsidian, in vim, in Claude Code, in whatever comes after Iliad. You own your files; you choose your AI.

It is early — version 0.x, macOS on Apple Silicon only, and the agent needs your own OpenAI key or Codex login. That honesty is part of the point: the source is public, and you can read exactly what it does.

Who builds it

Iliad is built by Sebastián Marambio — founder of Iliad and of Circles Learning (Palo Alto). He previously worked at Chile's Ministry of Education innovation center and consulted for the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. He writes and builds in English and Spanish.