Imbue opens waitlist for Studio, a shareable AI-agent workspace

Imbue has announced Imbue Studio, a product it describes as a personal-computing environment, and opened a waitlist for access. The company published the announcement on 1 October 2026 and says broader access is coming soon, without giving a date.

Imbue says a "studio" is a computer where a person can work with AI agents and other people to create tools, pull in data and build lasting systems. A studio can be made for one person or shared so others can build in it. The company's example is turning calendar, email and Slack information into a to-do list that updates in real time.

According to Imbue, tools can be shared by link so others can use them, and users can bring in files, data from online services and tools made by friends. It also says created apps can be dragged onto a desktop and reached from a phone. Changes are requested in plain language, and because the code is open source and the system can read its own source, Imbue says Studio can alter its own look, skills and behavior. The company also says users can switch between Anthropic, OpenAI or open model subscriptions during a conversation.

On control and security, Imbue says Studio can run on Imbue Cloud or on a user's own machine, and that a cloud studio can be downloaded and run locally. It states that traffic and stored data are encrypted, that agents run in a sandbox without access to secrets or credentials, and that agents have no access by default, with users granting specific permissions.

What is confirmed and what is not: the announcement, the waitlist and the feature list are confirmed by Imbue's own post. Every capability and security property above is the company's description. We have not tested Studio or seen an independent security review, and the post gives no pricing, hardware requirements or number of early-access places. Other outlets that mention the launch appear to be short briefs based on Imbue's post, so this article rests on a single credible source: the company itself.

Why it matters: the pitch is that agent-built software should live in an environment its user can inspect, export and run locally rather than inside a vendor's hosted app. Whether the open-source and permission claims hold up in practice is something people trying the product will need to check once access widens.

Revised 16 October 2026: Guth re-read the original sources and rewrote this article. The earlier version remains available as revision 1.