Why Miton — the trade-offs, honestly

The bets Miton makes

Local-first, no telemetry. The agent runs on your machine. The IDE is the full app. You own the compute.
BYOK by default. No proprietary model. No forced billing. Your keys, your data.
Token efficiency, not token spend. Caching, condensation, and a Budget Bridge across the engine.
Four lenses, one engine. Makers, Writers, Power users, Developers — the same chat, the same memory, the same model layer.
Source-available (FSL). Converts to Apache 2.0 on 2028-06-12. No rug-pulls.

No proprietary model. Cursor ships its own model and bills for it. Miton never bills you for a model you didn't bring.
Local-first. Cursor's cloud agent executes work on a vendor VM. Miton never has a cloud agent. See Cloud Agents — Disavowed.
Four lenses, not one. Cursor is a code editor with chat. Miton is a workspace with a code editor, a document editor, a visual workflow builder, and a chat.
FSL → Apache 2.0. Cursor is a closed-source product. Miton's source is on GitHub and converts to Apache 2.0 in 2028.

Workspace, not a sandbox. Bolt and Lovable are great web-app sandboxes, but they're web-only and ephemeral. v0 is a component playground. Miton is a workspace that runs natively on your machine.
Files on your disk. Your project lives on your disk, in your filesystem, under your control. Open in any editor, commit to git, move it elsewhere.
Local-first. Bolt and Lovable require a browser. Miton runs offline (with a local model) and never exfiltrates your work.

Workspace, not a feature. Notion AI is a feature inside a database. Lex is a clean writing app with AI. Miton is a workspace: the document, the chat, the research, and the model layer are the same product.
Local-first. Notion is a cloud database. Lex is a cloud editor. Miton runs locally, so your drafts never leave your machine.

Workspace, not a workflow tool. Zapier and Make are credit-metered cloud services. n8n is a self-hosted Zapier with a graph editor. Miton is a workspace with a workflow builder.
Model and workflow in the same product. Triggers, actions, and the model layer are the same product as your chat, your documents, and your code. No copying text between tools.
Local-first. Workflows run on your machine, not on a vendor's cloud.

It does things. ChatGPT and Claude.ai are chat products. Miton is a workspace that ships code, documents, workflows, and visual apps.
Files on your disk. Your work lives in your filesystem, not in a vendor's cloud.
BYOK, no telemetry. Your keys, your data, your machine.