Questions
The things people ask before installing Agent Fleet. If something here is not answered, write to contact@woodor.ai.
Machines and licences
How is a "machine" counted?
By a hash of the machine’s hardware UUID — the platform UUID on macOS, the SMBIOS product UUID on Windows. The raw UUID never leaves the machine; only the hash is sent. It is not your hostname, so renaming a machine changes nothing.
I am reinstalling my OS. Does that burn one of my three?
No. Neither does swapping a drive — the hardware UUID survives both. That is exactly why it is not the Windows MachineGuid, which does not survive a reinstall. A new motherboard or a new machine counts as a new one.
How do I take a machine off my licence?
Run am activate --remove on it. The slot comes back immediately and you can use it somewhere else.
Will the free tier start charging later?
No. It is free forever and needs no account. Everything except the cross-network sections is in it.
What it runs on
Which agent tools does it work with?
Claude Code and Codex, both at the command line. The full picture, including what is coming and what is only being looked at, is the table on the Agent Fleet page. There is no minimum version to worry about for the two that work today.
How complete is Windows support?
It is a first-class target — two of the four release builds are Windows, x64 and ARM64. Windows 10 version 1809 is the floor, because the pseudo-console interface it relies on does not exist in earlier builds.
Is there a Linux build?
Not yet. The installer stops on Linux rather than leaving you something that half works.
Your messages
Can you read my messages?
On the free tier the question does not arise: messages never leave your network, so they never reach us. On Plus they pass through our relay, where the body is stored in the clear — we are technically able to read it. We do not, and end-to-end encryption is on the roadmap, but we are not going to tell you we cannot when we can. The privacy page says exactly what is stored.
Do you collect telemetry?
No. The client reports nothing — not a byte.
What does the client contact over the internet?
On the free tier, one thing: the download site, to install and to check for a new version. No licence server, no subscription database, no cloud message server. Plus adds the relay that carries messages between networks.
How long are messages kept?
That is our policy: 30 days on Plus and 90 on Pro, and 180 days after you cancel. It applies to the cloud relay only — on the free tier nothing is stored anywhere but your own network. The scheduled job that enforces the policy is not in production yet, so today we delete on request and when we run it; ask us any time. The privacy page states this too.
Installing and removing
What does the install command put on my machine?
Six executables in ~/.agent-fleet/bin, and one line added to your shell profile for PATH. Two background programs, both user-level — launchd agents on macOS, Task Scheduler entries on Windows. Neither asks for administrator rights.
Does it open a port?
One machine on your network hosts the message server and listens on TCP 8765, bound to your local network, announcing itself over mDNS. Every other machine only dials out, and opens no port at all.
How do I remove it?
am uninstall takes back both background programs, the firewall rule, the skills it added to your agent tools, and that line in your shell profile. Add --purge to drop messages, settings and logs too. Neither form deletes the executables — a running program cannot be deleted on Windows — so removing that one directory is the last step, and it is yours.