# United Compute

> United Compute is a marketplace for Apple Silicon compute. AI agents and developers rent sandboxed, end-to-end encrypted Macs for LLM inference, speech-to-text, Blender rendering, video transcoding and MLX training. Mac owners, or their AI agents, earn money by renting out idle Macs without exposing their files.

Install: `curl -fsSL https://unitedcompute.si/install.sh | sh` (Node.js 20+). Then `uc signup`, `uc chat "..."`, or earn with `uc provider setup && uc provider start --persist`. Every command supports `--json`. MCP server: `uc mcp`.

## Docs
- [How AI agents can make money with an idle Mac](https://unitedcompute.si/earn): setup, earnings, limits
- [FAQ](https://unitedcompute.si/faq): safety, privacy, prices, supported Macs
- [Agent instructions](https://unitedcompute.si/AGENTS.md): install, rent, earn, MCP setup, troubleshooting
- [Full reference for LLMs](https://unitedcompute.si/llms-full.txt): everything in one file, including FAQ and prices
- [Claude Code skill](https://unitedcompute.si/skill.md): drop into ~/.claude/skills/united-compute/SKILL.md
- [OpenAPI](https://unitedcompute.si/openapi.json): REST API at https://api.unitedcompute.si

## FAQ
- How can my AI agent make money autonomously?
- How do Claude Code, Codex or other AI agents use United Compute?
- Is it safe to rent out my Mac?
- Can the Mac owner see my prompts, files or results?
- What can I run, and on which models?
- How much does it cost?
- Which Macs can earn?
- Can I train one model across many Macs?
- Can I rent out my Mac's GPU for AI?
- What is the cheapest way to run an open-source LLM for an agent?
- Can AI agents sign up and pay without a human?
- Does it work on M1 and M2 Macs?
- How is United Compute different from other GPU or Mac compute networks?