{"repo":"brainstorm-os/shell","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/brainstorm-os/shell","clone":"git clone https://github.com/brainstorm-os/shell.git","description":"The local-first knowledge OS — a desktop shell hosting sandboxed apps over your own data. Block Protocol · Yjs · Lexical.","language":"TypeScript","stars":10,"topics":["block-protocol","crdt","desktop-app","electron","knowledge-management","lexical","local-first","note-taking","pkm","privacy"],"license":null,"category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"Brainstorm A desktop OS for you and your AI. Brainstorm runs your apps, your data, and your AI on your own machine. Install what you need, keep every file on your disk, and let AI help — only with the parts you hand it. Download · Website · The apps · Docs · Releases Your screen becomes a real desktop: a wallpaper, app icons, windows. Each icon is its own sandboxed app — Notes, Database, Graph, Calendar, Mailbox, twenty in all — and every app works from one set of objects living in a folder on your disk . A note you write here is a row there and a node in the graph. Never a copy, never an export. Download Get the public beta → — free, no account, your data stays on your machine. Platform Requirement Builds --- --- --- macOS macOS 12 Monterey or later .dmg for Apple silicon and Intel — signed and notarized Windows Windows 10 or later Installer .exe Linux x86 64 or arm64 AppImage · .deb Every build is also on GitHub Releases, and installs update in-app from Settings → Updates . Windows builds are currently unsigned, so SmartScreen will ask — choose More info → Run anyway . It's a beta: keep backups of anything you'd mind losing. Why it's different Plenty of tools do local-first notes. Brainstorm is built around a different question: when you let AI into your knowledge, who decides what it can touch? - A capability ledger between everything. Apps and AI get no ambient access. Every request crosses a broker that checks a per-vault ledger of grants — each one specific, logged, and","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/brainstorm-os","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/brainstorm-os/shell/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}