Elcro is a desktop IDE that treats the agent as a first-class citizen: chat, tools, MCP servers, and your codebase live in one workbench.

Local-first, BYOK

• Your API keys stay on your machine under the .elcro user data folder.
• Local runtimes (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio) work without a cloud LLM vendor.
• Elcro does not proxy inference through an Elcro-hosted model service.

Built on a familiar editor

Elcro inherits the VS Code workbench (via Void): extensions, keybindings, terminals, and SCM still work the way you expect. Elcro adds AI surfaces on top — sidebar chat, Quick Edit, Tab autocomplete, Apply, and MCP.

What you will use daily

Surface	Shortcut	Purpose
Chat	Ctrl/Cmd+L	Add selection / open AI sidebar
New chat	Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+L	Fresh thread
Quick Edit	Ctrl/Cmd+K	Inline edit selection
Tab	(Tab accept)	FIM autocomplete

Account

You can open the editor without signing in. Agent chat, Tab autocomplete, and Quick Edit are account-gated via elcro-website.vercel.app desktop SSO (elcro://auth/callback).

Best practices

• Start in Ask or Plan for research; switch to Agent when you want edits.
• Prefer explicit models for hard agent tasks; enable Auto routing only after you trust your model list.
• Keep secrets in provider settings — never commit API keys.

Related

• Quick Start
• Architecture