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# Introduction

Amp is a coding agent and development environment built for the frontier.

- **Multi-Model:** GPT-5.6, Claude Fable 5.1, fast models. Amp uses them all, for what each model is
  best at.
- **Orbs:** Machines that Amp creates per thread, with your code, tools, and plugins already set
  up. Send a prompt, close your laptop, and the agent keeps working.
- **Everywhere:** Start an orb from your iPhone, check on it from your Mac, and follow up in
  the TUI. The apps notify you when a thread is ready for your next message.
- **Opinionated:** You're always using the good parts of Amp. If we don't use and love a feature,
  we kill it.
- **On the Frontier:** Amp goes where the models take it. No backward compatibility, no legacy
  features.
- **Threads:** You can save and share your interactions with Amp.

_Want to go much deeper? Follow along on our [Raising an Agent podcast](/podcast) and the [Chronicle](/chronicle) time capsules where we share what we're learning as we build Amp._

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## Quickstart

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Prefer to watch first? The first episode of _Orbs from Zero_ goes from a GitHub repository to an
agent working in an orb:

<DocsScreencastEpisode series="orbs" episode="get-started-in-orbs" />

## Explore

Amp is the same agent and the same threads everywhere. Pick where you want to work:

- **Web.** [ampcode.com](/) needs no install. Start a thread, and Amp works in an
  [orb](/docs/orbs), a machine it creates for that thread.
- **Mac, iPhone, and iPad.** The [macOS & iOS apps](/docs/macos-and-ios) add notifications,
  dictation, and sharing from other apps.
- **Terminal.** The [CLI](/docs/cli) runs Amp on your own machine, in your editor's terminal, or
  from scripts.

Then meet [Puck](/docs/puck), who launches and coordinates agents for you.