MuseDesk

Unofficial community client — beta. MuseDesk is not affiliated with or
endorsed by the makers of Muse Code. It drives the official muse CLI that
you install yourself, under your own membership: the app stores no
credentials, bundles no binaries, and phones nothing home.

MuseDesk is a macOS desktop client for the official muse CLI, speaking its
client-built protocol (MSP over muse serve stdio). Chat with streaming
markdown, tool-call visibility, session history shared with the terminal,
screenshot attachments, and model / reasoning-effort / approval controls.

Current release: 1.0.0-beta.4 — command palette, mission control,
send hardening (queued-row + Sending…), project sidebar, tasks/changes
side panel, token + context meters, turn recovery, Apple Silicon-only builds.

Screenshots (sample data)

Screenshots use staged sample data; no real sessions are shown. Regenerate
with npm run screenshots (headless, no CLI or auth needed).

Requirements

• macOS (the beta packages and tests target macOS; the code is cross-platform).
• The official Muse Code CLI installed and on PATH (muse --version).
  MuseDesk never bundles, downloads, or replaces this binary: without it the
  app shows a clear error and refuses to start a host. Everyone connects with
  their own CLI install and their own membership.
• Node.js 20+ and npm (for development builds).

This build was verified against Muse Code 1.3.0 (1.3.0-R3057.1). On every
launch the app compares the live protocol fingerprint with the pinned one
and refuses to drive an unknown protocol.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/atameric/musedesk.git
cd musedesk
npm install
npm start

Scripts

Command	What it does
npm start	Run the app in development mode
npm run package	Build a runnable .app into out/
npm run make	Build the distributable unsigned .dmg into out/make/
npm run typecheck	tsc --noEmit