Helix docs

#What is Helix?

Vyoma Group’s AI ecosystem — formerly Arka AI. One account across the web, your PC, your phone and your own server.

#Install Helix for Windows (beta)

One installer, no administrator rights. About a minute.

1. Download HelixSetup.exe (125.5 MB, Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit).
2. Run it. If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”, choose More info → Run anyway — the installer isn’t code-signed yet.
3. Click Install. Helix installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Helix, just for you.
4. Helix opens in its own window. Sign in with Google.

Your data lives in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Helix and survives upgrades. Uninstall from Add or remove programs.

Check the download: Get-FileHash .\HelixSetup.exe should print 1a21f05167524e02d675f7ad04cf53083c8a358f58efe37b57ceb26022a51fa6.

Helix · Home

#The beta program

Helix for Windows is a public beta. Here’s what that means.

• It’s free and updates itself — most updates are a small patch, not the full installer.
• Expect rough edges. Helix acts on a real computer, so start with low-stakes tasks and keep Ctrl+Shift+K in reach.
• Want the newest work first? Turn on Settings → Try beta builds. Helix then offers pre-release builds as they ship and keeps them updated. Stable installs are never offered a beta.
• Tell us what breaks — support@vyomagroup.online, with what you asked and what happened.

#Sign in and your key

One Google sign-in for every Helix.

Sign in with Google once. Your API key follows the account, so the same key works on your PC, your laptop and your phone, and changes everywhere at once. Prefer not to? Choose Continue without an account — your key then stays on that PC only.

Helix runs on Google’s Gemini models through your account. You can add your own keys for stronger models in Helix Code.

#Chat, Work and Jobs

Three ways to ask.

Mode	Use it for
Chat	Questions and answers. Helix doesn’t touch anything.
Work	Tasks on your PC — type /work or switch the toggle.
Jobs	A whole job: Helix plans it, does it with every tool, checks the result and leaves the files in a folder. Tick Don’t use my screen to keep it off the desktop.

Helix · Jobs

#How Helix does a task

Understand, pick a surface, act until surprised, check.

1. Understand. It restates the goal, notes assumptions, and asks if something is genuinely ambiguous.
2. Pick the surface. A Google API, the browser tab, the files tool, one command — and only then the mouse.
3. Act until surprised. It sends every step it already knows in one go and stops to think only when something unexpected happens.
4. Check. Typing is read back, windows confirmed, files found on disk.

#Surfaces

The right tool for each job.

#Learned tasks (shortcuts)

Do something twice and it becomes instant.

When a task works the same way twice — “open Notepad and type …”, “search YouTube for …” — Helix keeps it as a shortcut with the variable parts left open. Next time it runs in about a second with no model call, through the same approvals and checks. Press Make this instant on a finished task to teach it after one go, and manage them on the Shortcuts page. A shortcut that fails twice stops being trusted.

#Numbered tags and proof

How Helix clicks the right thing — and shows it did.

Helix reads what Windows reports about every window — the real names of buttons and fields — and presses controls by name. When several look alike (five “Delete” buttons), it numbers them on its screenshot and picks a number, not a guessed pixel. When it can check a step (“window Notepad is open”, “report.txt is on disk”), the task card shows the proof.

#Apps it knows

Works with what you already use.

Chrome, File Explorer, Notepad, Spotify, WhatsApp Web, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, VS Code, Settings, Gmail, Google Calendar, Docs and Sheets, Discord, Telegram, Terminal, PowerShell and YouTube — plus 240+ built-in knowledge files of app shortcuts and workflows.

#Canvas and artifacts

Real documents, written in front of you.

Ask for a report and the Canvas opens: the page assembles itself sheet by sheet while a panel shows what Helix is doing — planning, searching, which sources it read. Documents are saved as Markdown, a styled HTML page, a CSV for tables and a PDF. Everything Helix makes collects under Artifacts.

#The stop key

Ctrl+Shift+K, from anywhere.

#What it asks about

Every action has a risk class.

Reading is free. Sending, buying, deleting and powering off wait for your yes. Rules you set (“don’t send anything”) bind every step of the task, including steps planned together, and are checked before each action.

#What Helix won’t do

Some moments are always yours.

• Type your passwords or card numbers
• Solve CAPTCHAs or get round bot detection
• Watch your screen when no task you started is running
• Operate its own window

#Your data and keys

What stays on your machine.

Model keys you add for Helix Code are stored in your user folder, never synced to settings, and can’t be set from another device. Your phone can do everything the PC app can through your account or a pairing PIN — except credentials and re-pairing, which you do at the machine.

#Open a project

Point it at a folder; it works inside that folder and nowhere else.

1. Switch to Code at the top of the sidebar.
2. Press Open a folder… and choose your project.
3. Describe the change, or ask about the codebase.

Code mode only touches files inside the project folder — that’s a boundary in the code, not a preference.

Helix · Code

#Modes and permissions

Four ways to work, five levels of asking.

#Checks, tests and the done gate

Mistakes are caught the moment they’re made.

• Every edited file is checked straight away: syntax, undefined names, broken JSON.
• A ranked repo map shows the files that matter for the task.
• Bugs are fixed test-first: a failing test, the fix, the test going green.
• Your typecheck, lint and tests must pass before “done”, and a self-review reads the diff.

#Review and undo

Keep what’s right, undo what isn’t.

After each turn open Review to keep or undo a single change, a whole file or the entire turn. If the file changed since you looked, Helix refuses rather than reverting the wrong lines. Undo includes files it created.

#Missions, MCP and your own model

For bigger jobs and stronger brains.

• Missions work in their own git worktree until the checks pass, then hand you a branch to merge.
• MCP servers and plugins — connect your database, issue tracker or your own tools; nothing runs until you switch it on.
• Bring your own key — Claude or any OpenAI-compatible model plans and reviews; edits stay fast on the default.

#The harness behind it

Not a model — the thing around the model.

Helix Code grew out of our coding harness — not a model, but the thing around the model: the loop, the tools, the memory and the checks. Its permission rules are a direct port of the harness’s. In development, the standalone harness goes further: 55 tools, a real browser with devtools to verify the pages it builds, docs read from the packages you actually have installed, and grounding checks that catch a cited file that doesn’t exist, a test it never ran or an edit it never made before an answer reaches you.

#The Android app

Your PC, from anywhere.

1. Download Helix.apk on your phone (Android 8+).
2. Allow Install unknown apps when asked.
3. Sign in with the same Google account — your PC shows up on its own.

Send tasks, approve steps and watch milestones arrive — or take the screen and drive it by touch. On the same Wi-Fi it goes direct; anywhere else it routes through the cloud link.

#Voice and “Hey Helix”

Talk to it while it works.

Tap the microphone, say “Hey Helix”, or start a call. Helix answers out loud and keeps working at the same time; it checks what it has actually done before telling you. Interrupt whenever you like.

#The Chrome extension

A side panel beside the page you’re reading.

1. Download helix-chrome.zip and unzip it somewhere you’ll keep it.
2. Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
3. Click Load unpacked and choose the folder. With Helix running on the same PC, it connects on its own (Chrome 116+).

#Telegram, Discord, Slack and schedules

Message it like a colleague.

Connect a chat app and send tasks from Telegram, Discord or Slack. Daily summaries, recurring chores and webhooks run as background jobs that never take over your screen.

#Install on a VPS

One command; back by itself after a reboot.

It installs Helix in /opt/helix under a user with no shell, writes a systemd service and starts it. Running it again upgrades in place and keeps your sign-in, settings and history. Add --beta to follow the beta channel.

#Sign the server in

A code, not a tunnel.

1. On the server, run helix link. It prints a code like GGRU-KJL6.
2. In Helix on your phone or PC, go to Settings → Link a device and enter it.
3. The server gets a session of its own: your key arrives and it joins your devices.

#Helix web (formerly Arka AI)

Think sharper, in any browser.

Open arka.vyomagroup.online and continue with Google. Helix web reasons through hard problems, reads images and PDFs, writes and explains code, remembers what you choose to share, and groups chats into projects. Five styles — Normal, Learning, Concise, Explanatory, Formal — and an optional deep-reasoning mode.

The full web guide — chatting, image and file analysis, deep reasoning, memory, settings, plans and privacy — is in the Helix web docs.

#How updates work

In the background, and reversible.

New versions arrive in the app and tell you what changed. Most download only the parts that differ — a 21.9 MB patch instead of the full installer. Each one is verified against its checksum; if a version fails to start, Helix offers to put the previous one back.

#“Windows protected your PC”

The installer isn’t code-signed yet.

Choose More info → Run anyway. Helix installs only into your own user folder and never asks for administrator rights. Compare the SHA-256 under Install if you want to be sure.

#A task is slow or stuck

What to try.

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+K to stop it.
2. Break the task into smaller steps, or say which app to use.
3. If it’s a web task, make sure Chrome is installed.
4. Report it with what you asked — the per-step timing log helps us fix it.

#Report a bug

Beta means we want to hear it.

Email support@vyomagroup.online with your Helix version, what you asked, and what happened.