👻 Mind Flayer

A powerful desktop AI assistant app built with Tauri, React, Vercel AI SDK and more!

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Desktop App

App Settings

Telegram Bot Integration

Installation

Download the macOS DMG from Releases and choose the file for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon: Mind.Flayer_*_aarch64.dmg
• Intel: Mind.Flayer_*_x64.dmg

If macOS says the app is damaged, move it to Applications and run:

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Mind Flayer.app"

Development

pnpm install          # Install all dependencies
pnpm dev              # Start development (frontend + Tauri)
pnpm test             # Run all tests (vitest + cargo)
pnpm build            # Build for production

Releasing

The macOS release pipeline and updater setup are documented in docs/releasing.md.

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React 19 - JavaScript library for building user interfaces with latest concurrent features and optimizations
• TypeScript - JavaScript superset with type safety and better developer experience
• Vite 8 - Next-generation frontend build tool with blazing-fast dev server and optimized production builds
• Tailwind CSS 4 - Utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building modern UIs
• shadcn/ui - Beautifully designed components built with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS
• TanStack Router - Type-safe routing framework for React with built-in search params validation
• i18next - Internationalization framework supporting English and Simplified Chinese

Backend

• Tauri 2.0 - Build lightweight, secure, and cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies
• Rust - High-performance, memory-safe systems programming language powering Tauri's backend
• Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the sidecar server, handling API routing and middleware
• SQLite - Lightweight embedded database for chat history and message persistence

AI Integration

• AI SDK - Vercel AI SDK for building AI-powered streaming text and chat applications with Framework hooks and unified API

Development Tools

• pnpm 10 - Fast, disk space efficient package manager
• Biome - Unified formatter and linter, replacing Prettier and ESLint
• Vitest - Vite-native unit testing framework for fast test experience
• Lefthook - Fast and powerful Git hooks manager
• Commitlint - Lint commit messages according to conventional standards
• Release-it - Automated versioning and package publishing