# What is Amazon Quick on desktop?
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Amazon Quick on desktop is a native application that extends Amazon Quick to your machine. It gives Quick direct, persistent access to your files, your connected services, and the context of how your work fits together.

## What you can do with Quick on desktop
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Quick on desktop works with the files already on your machine. You grant access to the folders you choose, and Quick can read, write, search, and index them directly. There's no uploading, no copy-pasting, and no size limits imposed by a browser.

Quick connects to the services you use every day: email, calendar, chat, CRM, and more. Once connected, Quick can pull information from these services, take actions in them, and combine data across them in a single conversation. You don't have to switch between tools to get a complete picture.

As you work with Quick, it builds a knowledge graph of the people, projects, and decisions relevant to you. It also retains your preferences and workflows in long-term memory. Together, these mean Quick understands your work context and provides personalized responses that improve over time.

You can create agents with their own instructions and knowledge, and assign them to scheduled tasks that run at intervals you define. These agents prepare for your meetings, summarize what's changed in your channels, generate reports, and deliver results through an activity feed so you start each day informed.

Quick is also extensible. You can connect MCP servers to add custom tools and integrations, delegate development tasks to coding agents, use browser automation to interact with web applications, and create skills that teach Quick new workflows.

**Note**  
Amazon Quick on desktop shares the same core AI capabilities as the web experience. During Preview, some capabilities and features available to the web will not be available to the desktop application and conversely the web.

## Next steps
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To get started, see [Getting started](getting-started-desktop.md). If your organization uses an Enterprise account, see [Setting up Amazon Quick on desktop for enterprise deployments](desktop-enterprise-setup.md) first.