Hey @ZLH, thanks for the suggestion.
Projects is deliberately cloud-first for now: the coordinator lives in the cloud so it can keep planning and dispatching while your laptop is closed, and so the same project can be followed from the desktop app, the web, and mobile. There isn’t a local-only coordinator mode today.
What you can do already is keep the execution on your machine. If you connect your computer under Cloud Agents > Self-Hosted (Remote Control / My Machines), the coordinator can dispatch workers to that machine, and they run in your existing checkout rather than a cloud clone. That path is still early, and local tool access for those workers (for example, MCP servers configured only on your machine) is something the team is still working through.