The Editor (named Neural Inverse on your system) is a desktop development environment for hands-on work with AI assistance: chat, agent sessions that edit your code, and edits you review before you keep them. It is built on Code - OSS, the open-source core of Visual Studio Code, so the editing, debugging, terminal, source control and extension features of Code - OSS are there. Neural Inverse adds sign-in to your organisation, organisation policy, approvals with electronic signatures, a tamper-evident activity record, evidence packs, Checks, organisation context and bring-your-own models.
The Editor is installed together with the Agents app. Each app runs on its own, with its own process, icon, data folder (.neural-inverse for the Editor, .neural-inverse-agents for the Agents app) and sign-in session.
Maturity
The Editor is pre-release. Interfaces and data formats may change between versions. Several features talk to your organisation's Neural Inverse Govern deployment (powered by Keystone), and some of them have only been tested against servers written from the published contract. Each page says what is verified and what is not.
What you can do
| Task | Page |
|---|---|
| Sign in, see which server and account you use, sign out | First launch and signing in |
| Open folders, trust a workspace, see which project a folder belongs to | Workspaces, trust and project binding |
| Ask questions in chat, run agent sessions, review and keep edits | Chat and agent sessions |
| Connect model providers, local models and your organisation's models | Models |
| See compliance findings and obligations as you work | Checks |
| Understand what your organisation's policy enforces on this device | Organisation policy |
| Request and sign approvals | Approvals and signatures |
| Set your intent, link work items, trace requirements, baseline releases | Intent, projects and releases |
| See and export what was recorded on this device | Activity Log and audit upload |
| Build and verify evidence packs | Evidence packs |
| Add your organisation's code, documents and issues to prompts, share context | Organisation context |
| See when another team's agents work on the same code | Team work |
| Keep credentials out of agent terminals, run a program with vault secrets | Secrets and agent terminals |
| Look up a setting, a managed policy or a command | Settings and policies, Commands and keys |
| Fix a problem | Troubleshooting |
For firmware, FPGA and HDL, PLC, DCS, mainframe, energy and automotive work, see the domain module sections, for example Embedded.
How the Editor fits with the rest of Neural Inverse
- Sign-in. You sign in to your organisation's Govern deployment with your own account. While you are signed out, a sign-in screen covers the window. See Get started.
- Agent host. Agent sessions and model calls run in a separate agent host process. On macOS one agent host is shared by the Editor and the Agents app and keeps running when either app quits. On Windows and Linux each app runs its own host unless the environment variable
NI_SHARED_AGENT_HOST=1is set, because the shared host's process behaviour has not yet been validated there. - Policy. Your organisation's policy arrives signed and is verified on the device. A modified build can remove any check inside the Editor, so what must hold is enforced by Govern (its model gateway, for example) and, for merges and releases, by your CI. See Organisation policy and Govern.
- Audit. By default nothing in the activity record leaves the device. Your organisation can turn on uploading of agent events, and separately a person's own actions, to its own Govern deployment. No telemetry is sent to Neural Inverse.
Not in this release
- Legacy modernisation. The source contains a modernisation workflow, but no app loads it today: a test fails if an app loads it without its governance contribution. It is not documented until it ships.
- The older agent manager, power mode and Ollama auto-setup. Their code is in the repository but neither app loads it. Local models are connected on the Models page instead.
- Sharing running agent sessions between the Editor and the Agents app is in progress. See Working with the Editor for what is shared today.
Licence
The Editor is proprietary and licensed under your organisation's agreement with Neural Inverse. Code inherited from Code - OSS stays under the MIT License. See licence.