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Cassady Desktop
Cassady Desktop is the v0.4.0 desktop preview. It uses the same Cassady config, providers, tools, approval policy, and ~/.cass/conversations/*.jsonl sessions as the terminal CLI.
Launch from a release archive
macOS and Linux release archives include three binaries:
casscassadycassady-desktop
Keep them in the same directory or put all three on PATH, then launch the desktop app with:
cass desktop
cass desktop starts cassady-desktop as a detached background process, so you can close the terminal after the window opens. For debugging, keep it attached with:
cass desktop --foreground
If the desktop binary is somewhere else, set:
CASSADY_DESKTOP_BIN=/path/to/cassady-desktop cass desktop
Run cass setup first if Cassady has no configured provider.
Development
From the repository root:
cd cassady-desktop
npm install
cargo tauri build --target aarch64-apple-darwin
cargo tauri build runs the frontend build and embeds the generated assets into the standalone binary. A plain cargo build -p cassady-desktop is useful for Rust checks, but do not package that output because it may run in Tauri dev-asset mode and open to a blank window when copied elsewhere.
For a GUI dev session, run the Vite dev server and the Tauri app using your local Tauri workflow. Release packaging uses the raw cassady-desktop binary, not DMG, app bundle, AppImage, MSI, or other installer artifacts.