Your machines

A mesh is whatever you already have. MeshBoard doesn't prescribe hardware — one laptop alone works, and every machine you add gives the mesh another pair of hands. Different machines end up doing what they're naturally good at.

Supported platforms

The agent installs on five targets today:

• macOS — Apple silicon and Intel
• Linux — x86-64 and ARM64
• Windows — x86-64 (installer via PowerShell)

Mixed meshes are normal, not a special case: a MacBook, a Windows gaming PC, and a Linux server in a closet can be one mesh. Machines find each other and share work regardless of what they run.

What each machine ends up doing

Every machine can take work; the mesh routes each job to whichever one fits it best. In practice a shape emerges:

• The machine you carry coordinates, builds, and answers — it's where your AI subscriptions are usually signed in.
• A machine with a GPU runs local models: private, no per-token cost, and busy even when the cloud is rate-limited.
• An always-on box — an old desktop, a home server, a NAS — takes the night shift: long jobs, scheduled work, the things that shouldn't depend on a laptop lid being open.

None of these roles is required. They're what machines drift into when you give them the chance.

Adding a machine

Same as the first one: run your account's installer command on it (Getting started, step 2). It enrolls, appears in your mesh with a live status, and starts taking work it's suited for. There is no per-machine fee — the Personal plan is per person, not per device.

Checking on a machine

The machine's own account of itself lives in one file:

tail -f ~/.meshboard/agent.log

The agent says what it's doing in plain words — including the thing that most often needs saying: no coding launchers detected (install Claude Code or Codex for real work) means the machine is connected but has no AI to work through yet (Connect your AI).

Your mesh at app.meshboard.ai shows every machine's live status; if a machine looks stale, re-running your account's installer command on it is safe — the install is idempotent, takes a few seconds, and restarts the agent.