Opius

Version 1.0.0 · Stable

Opius is an open-source AI workspace that unifies coding agents, terminals, Git, skills, and persistent workspaces into one desktop application.

Built with Electron, React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, xterm.js, node-pty, and SQLite — designed to run fully offline and cross-platform on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Opius v1.0

This is the first stable release of Opius.

Opius is an open-source AI workspace that unifies coding agents, terminals, Git, skills, and persistent workspaces into one desktop application.

This release establishes the stable foundation for future features including Memory, Opius CLI, Opius Design, plugins, and advanced multi-agent orchestration.

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Features

• Multi-agent workspace — run multiple AI agents side-by-side in a tiled terminal grid
• Persistent workspaces — named workspaces with saved layouts, presets, and per-project state
• Built-in terminal — real PTY-backed shells (PowerShell, zsh, bash) with focus, maximize, and fullscreen states
• Skills system — attach reusable capability packs to agents
• Git integration — branch, status, staging, diffs, and commits from the sidebar
• Agent detection — automatically detects installed agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, FreeBuff, Aider, and more)
• Memory — a knowledge constellation that distills durable knowledge from conversations
• Voice — fully local speech-to-text and text-to-speech (Whisper, Kokoro)
• Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, and Linux installers

Quick Start

Install dependencies

npm install

Development mode

npm run dev

Opens Electron with hot-reload enabled.

Build & package

npm run build         # compile TypeScript + bundle frontend + validate preload
npm run package       # build + package for the current platform
npm run package:linux # AppImage + deb
npm run package:win   # NSIS installer (.exe)
npm run package:mac   # DMG installer

Artifacts are written to release/1.0.0/:

• Opius-Linux-1.0.0.AppImage / Opius-Linux-1.0.0.deb
• Opius-Windows-1.0.0-Setup.exe
• Opius-Mac-1.0.0-Installer.dmg

Documentation

• CHANGELOG.md — release history
• QUICK_START.md — quick build guide
• BUILD_GUIDE.md — comprehensive cross-platform build documentation
• OPIUM.md — product overview and direction

License

© Opius Team. See .github/FUNDING.yml to support the project.