vastsa/PI-Desktop
Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins
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Bring projects, agents, models, plugins, and workflows into one persistent desktop environment. Local-first · Model-agnostic · Plugin-powered · macOS / Windows / Linux [](https://github.com/vastsa/PI-Desktop/releases/latest) [](https://github.com/vastsa/PI-Desktop/releases) [](https://github.com/vastsa/PI-Desktop/stargazers) [](https://github.com/vastsa/PI-Desktop/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](LICENSE) Download · Documentation · Build a Plugin · Screenshots · 简体中文 Your projects stay local · Your models stay replaceable · Your workspace stays yours Terminal agents are great at execution. IDE agents are great at living inside an editor. PI-Desktop goes one step further: No dependency on a specific IDE or terminal. Projects, sessions, reviews, previews, and agents all live in their own workspace. Plugins extend more than the agent. Add panels, views, widgets, tools, MCP servers, themes, and background services. One agent is not always enough. Delegate to Subagents or coordinate full Worker Sessions in parallel. Cloud models, local models, custom gateways, compatible APIs. Switch models without rebuilding your workflow. It is not a wrapper around one model. It is…
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- PI-Desktop
- A modular desktop workspace for AI agents
- Why PI-Desktop?
- Independent Workspace
- Plugin-Powered
- Agent Orchestration
- Model Freedom
- It is a desktop platform for agent workflows.
- Plugins are part of the workspace, not an afterthought
- Agent
- Workspace
- Platform
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What this repository does
Local-first AI coding agent desktop: Electron + Rust host core + pi Agent Harness + user-installable plugins
Repository facts
- Owner
- vastsa
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 4,885
- Forks
- 410
- Open issues + pull requests
- 131
- License
- LGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2023-03-22T14:23:39.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-21T12:55:18.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agent, coding-agent, desktop-app, electron, global, i18n, local-first, mcp, pi, pi-agent, pi-desktop, plugins, react, rust, typescript
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