Use cases
Liminal use cases
How people use Liminal day to day: Slack and Xero in one agent loop, small business admin, inbox triage, client documents, large-repo refactors, browser research, and Obsidian memory for developers.
What is a local AI agent use case?
A use case is a real workflow: triage Gmail, chase an overdue Xero invoice, refactor a monorepo, or research five sources and ship a PDF. Liminal is not a chat tab. It is a desktop agent with 500+ tools, OAuth connectors, and approval gates that runs on your computer.
Each page below walks through one workflow end to end: which integrations you connect, what you ask the agent, what gets written to disk, and how approvals work before anything is sent.
Who these workflows are for
Small business owners and operators use Liminal for inbox triage, invoice follow-ups, and client documents without paying per-seat SaaS AI. Developers use the same agent for refactors, tests, browser QA, and Obsidian-backed memory. Accountants and agencies connect Xero, Gmail, and Slack in one loop.
If you need a hosted copilot with no local control, these pages are probably not for you. If you want model choice, session logs on disk, and connectors you already pay for, start with Connected workspace or Self-hosted privacy.
17 in-depth pages. Each includes step-by-step detail, FAQs, and links back to Liminal AI install and docs.
Email & calendar assistant
Connect Gmail or Outlook with one click and let an AI agent on your computer triage your inbox, draft replies in your voice, send approved email, and manage your calendar.
Read →Documents, spreadsheets & slides
Generate polished PPTX, DOCX, and PDF files locally, or work directly in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Excel: one AI agent that researches, writes, and builds the deliverable.
Read →Your connected workspace
Connect Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Notion, Xero, and GitHub with one-click OAuth: one local AI agent that posts updates, files issues, updates docs, and raises invoices.
Read →AI for small business
One AI assistant for your whole business: triage email, chase overdue Xero invoices, build quotes and spreadsheets, and keep the team posted: with your approval before anything is sent.
Read →AI for accountants & bookkeepers
An AI assistant that speaks Xero: query invoices, contacts, and payroll, draft debtor follow-ups, build working papers in Excel or Sheets, and summarize the month: on your machine.
Read →AI for consultants & freelancers
Win the work, do the work, bill the work: an AI assistant that drafts proposals, researches clients, manages your inbox and calendar, and raises Xero invoices: with you approving every send.
Read →AI for marketing agencies
Client reporting decks built from real data, competitor research with sources, content drafted in each client's voice, and updates posted to Slack: one AI agent across the whole agency stack.
Read →AI for real estate agents
Listing descriptions that don't sound generated, instant-feeling inquiry replies you approve, scheduling without the phone tag, and suburb research with sources: an AI assistant on your own machine.
Read →AI for recruiters & HR
Candidate outreach in your voice, interview scheduling without the email ping-pong, CV summaries from a folder of resumes, and pipeline trackers in Sheets: one approval-gated AI assistant.
Read →Research & intelligence workflows
Use Liminal as a research officer: web_search, parallel web_fetch, vault briefs, spawn_agent researchers, and dynamic workflows for multi-angle synthesis.
Read →Self-hosted AI coding agent
Self-hosted AI agent on your machine: harness, tools, session traces, and memory on disk you control. Free fair-source software: optional cloud LLMs or fully local via Ollama.
Read →Obsidian + agent memory
Connect Liminal to Obsidian: vault_write, hybrid BM25+vector recall, memory graph, workspace-scoped notes, and curator-safe pruning: a coding agent with a second brain you own.
Read →Refactor large codebases
Plan and execute large refactors with repo maps, grep, semantic tools, multi-file edits, tests, lint self-heal, and optional dynamic workflows across modules.
Read →Multi-file edits
Coordinated edits with edit_file, write_file, multi_file_apply, streaming large writes, and integrity checks, plus git and test follow-up.
Read →Browser automation for devs
Headless Playwright in the agent loop: navigate, snapshot, act, extract: for JS-heavy docs, QA repros, and web-backed dev tasks with stealth and session limits.
Read →Dynamic workflows
plan_workflow and run_workflow: phased sub-agents, out-of-context storage, verify gates, and distilled summaries for large parallel coding and research tasks.
Read →Multi-agent orchestration
spawn_agent, critics, contract verification, and shared context buses: coordinate specialist sub-agents without copying the parent tool registry.
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