# Cindy, Open-source agent that runs Claude Code and Codex as swappable harnesses

> Source: <https://github.com/makecindy/cindy>
> Published: 2026-10-27 02:45:00+00:00

**English** · [简体中文](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/README.zh-CN.md)

Cindy is an open-source AI agent that works out of the box. She brings multiple harnesses, models and tools into one agent that finishes real work in your projects and apps. Ready from day one, yours to shape over time.

Cindy runs locally on your own machine, using your real files and logged-in
apps. The first supported harnesses are **Claude Code** and **Codex** — more are
being added, and a native harness is in the works. Models and harnesses mix
freely and can switch mid-task while your workspace, memory, skills and tools
stay continuous; one task can even be planned, executed in parallel, and
reviewed by agents on different harness × model combos. She can drive your
browser, computer and phone, and take work from IM and schedules.

This repository is the open-source **client** for Cindy — the desktop and mobile
apps plus their shared packages, organized as a pnpm monorepo.

The client is free to use, and its source code is open under Apache-2.0. Bring
models your way: sign in to the official Cindy service (usage deducted
transparently), authorize the **Claude Code / Codex Coding Plan** you already
pay for and keep using it inside Cindy — no duplicate bill — connect your own
API keys, or use local models.
See [cindy.app](https://cindy.app) for service details,
[pricing](https://cindy.app/#pricing), and [downloads](https://cindy.app/download/).

Linux users: see the [Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Omarchy installation guide](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/linux.md)
for installation, updates, keyring setup and migration from a manual install.

Open source means more than visible — it means changeable:

- **Memory** — correct her once and she does it right from then on, shared across harnesses.
- **Skills** — teach a way of working once and reuse it everywhere; handing them to your team is in the making.
- **Automation** — recurring work schedules itself, runs itself, reports back.
- **MCP** — wire your internal tools and business systems into her reach.
- **Plugins** — reshape features, UI and interactions, shared through an open marketplace*(in the making)* .
- **Source** — audit, fork, extend, and contribute improvements back under Apache-2.0.

Ready out of the box, never boxed in — start with
[`CONTRIBUTING.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.en.md) and build Cindy with us.

| Path | Description | 
|---|---|
| `apps/desktop` | Electron desktop client | 
| `apps/mobile` | Expo / React Native mobile client | 
| `packages/*` | Shared client capabilities (auth, device-link, agent orchestration, model providers, …) | 
| `apps/*-bin` | Tool binaries shipped with the desktop app; none are committed — claude-code, codex, and ripgrep are downloaded per platform by `pnpm install` , and the Android platform-tools binaries are fetched (pinned version, sha256-verified) before Windows packaging | 

**Not in this repo:** the backend service lives in a separate
repository and is not part of this monorepo.

| Mode | Account requirement | Availability | 
|---|---|---|
| Hosted service | Cindy cloud account | Use Cindy's full hosted service. See [pricing](https://cindy.app/#pricing) . | 
| Skip Sign-In | No Cindy sign-in required | Choose “Skip Sign-In” on the login screen to use local agents; the app then shows the account state as “Not signed in”. Server-backed capabilities are unavailable in this state. | 

- **Node.js** 22.x
- **pnpm** 10.x (v11 is not yet supported)
- **Git LFS**

Contributor setup, Git LFS, dependency updates, and access requirements are maintained in
[`CONTRIBUTING.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.en.md).
Plugins are installed through SkillHub or manually.

Minimal entry point:

```
git clone https://github.com/makecindy/cindy.git
cd cindy
git lfs pull
pnpm install
# Mainland China Cindy account
pnpm restart:desktop:remote --region=cn

# Global Cindy account
pnpm restart:desktop:remote --region=global
```

Remote development uses your own Cindy cloud account and existing login state, so
you can continue existing sessions and work while developing the client. Use `cn`
for Mainland China accounts and `global` for everyone else; do not rely
on the internal default. Full desktop, mobile, data-isolation, and validation
workflows are in [`CONTRIBUTING.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.en.md).

“Skip Sign-In” on the login screen runs local agents without a Cindy account (shown in the app as “Not signed in”), not a connection to a local server. Server-backed capabilities are unavailable in this state.

**About the default servers:** the client connects to Cindy's official cloud
services by default (endpoint manifests in
[`config/endpoint.json`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/config/endpoint.json) and
[`config/endpoint.global.json`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/config/endpoint.global.json); desktop
auto-updates also come from the official CDN). This is intentional — external
developers don't need to self-host a server: sign in with your own Cindy
account in a dev build and develop / test directly against the official
servers.

Skill Hub migration uses two separate manifest fields: released clients keep
using `skillhubApiBaseUrl` (the deprecated XD proxy), while current clients use
`cindySkillHubApiBaseUrl`. The current client deliberately does not fall back to
the legacy field when the new endpoint is absent.

- [`DESIGN.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/DESIGN.md) — visual design system, color tokens, and UI conventions
- [`docs/README.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/README.md) — complete documentation and rules index
- [`docs/auth-realm-routing.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/auth-realm-routing.md) — organization SSO region discovery and session endpoint routing
- [`CONTRIBUTING.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.en.md) — contributor setup, validation, and submission workflow
- [`AGENTS.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/AGENTS.md) — engineering rules, launch/runtime contracts, and module boundaries
- [`docs/dev-rules/`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/dev-rules) — deep-dive architecture docs (e.g. Orca multi-agent orchestration)

Contributions go through pull requests into `main`. Read
[`CONTRIBUTING.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.en.md) first, then use
[`.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md).
Every commit needs a [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/DCO) sign-off
(`git commit -s`); a DCO check on each pull request enforces it, and no CLA is
required.
Please also follow [`CODE_OF_CONDUCT.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.en.md). For ordinary
usage questions, see [`SUPPORT.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/SUPPORT.en.md); report security issues
privately through [`SECURITY.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/SECURITY.en.md).

Never commit credentials or authorization files to the working tree. If you
discover a security issue, follow [`SECURITY.en.md`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/SECURITY.en.md) to report it
privately rather than opening a public issue.

**Official distribution builds** include [TapDB](https://www.taptap.io/tapdb)
usage analytics for product-level aggregate statistics, including device identifiers,
OS / app version, startup and activity events. Events are associated with your account
ID after sign-in, so this is not fully anonymous. TapDB does **not** collect chat
content, file content, or working-directory data.

**You can disable usage analytics without editing code**: on Desktop, use
Settings → About → Usage statistics; on Mobile, use Usage statistics in Settings.
The SDK checks the stored privacy-consent state and the statistics preference,
which defaults to on. Accepting the Privacy Policy records consent; a one-time
migration also records consent for eligible existing signed-in users.

**Known Mobile exception:** enterprise SSO skips the policy-acceptance step. If no
analytics consent record exists and that sign-in is restored after restarting the
app, the current migration can mark even a new installation as consented. With
TapDB configured and statistics enabled, reporting can then start without explicit
policy acceptance. See [Mobile sign-in restoration](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/mobile/src/auth/AuthContext.tsx)
and the [consent migration](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/mobile/src/analytics/analyticsConsentStore.ts).
Turning off Usage statistics prevents reporting from being enabled by this migration.

- Desktop stops subsequent analytics reporting immediately when disabled. Local mode (Skip sign-in) does not report to TapDB.
- Mobile immediately unlinks the account and stops reports explicitly triggered by Cindy. An already initialized native SDK cannot be uninitialized; fully quit and relaunch the app to keep the SDK uninitialized.

Implementation: [Desktop consent and settings](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/desktop/src/main/analyticsSettingsService.ts),
[Desktop SDK](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/desktop/src/renderer/analytics/tapdbClient.ts),
[Mobile consent](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/mobile/src/analytics/analyticsConsentStore.ts), and
[Mobile SDK](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/mobile/src/analytics/mobileTapdb.ts).

Online heartbeats and diagnostic logs are separate mechanisms, unaffected by the
usage statistics switch. Desktop sends heartbeats to Cindy services only during a
verified cloud sign-in (account ID, platform, and version); local mode sends none.
Desktop native crash dumps stay local and are never uploaded automatically.
Diagnostic logs can be uploaded manually; a separate, default-off automatic crash
log upload option is also available. Log uploads require privacy consent. See the
[heartbeat implementation](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/desktop/src/main/heartbeatService.ts) and
[log upload rules](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/dev-rules/log-upload-and-redaction.md).

**Building from source?** You are not required to keep analytics:

- Desktop development builds do not initialize TapDB by default. Explicitly setting
`XDT_TAPDB_DEV=1` lifts the build gate but still requires consent and the statistics
preference. Self-packaged Desktop builds use the same analytics gates as official
builds; you can disable analytics in Settings.
- Mobile does not initialize the SDK without injected TapDB configuration
(`clientId` /`clientToken` ). This does not mean all source builds default to off:
the self-hosted release pipeline requires nonempty configuration, while local
development permits empty values. See the[Mobile build guide](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/apps/mobile/docs/simulator-debugging.md) .

Except as otherwise noted, the source code in this repository is licensed under
the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/LICENSE). Individual source files do not
carry per-file license headers; the repository-root `LICENSE` governs.

Model weights, datasets, prompts, trademarks, and other separately identified
materials may be subject to their own license terms and are not automatically
covered by the repository-level Apache-2.0 grant. Third-party open-source
components retain their own copyright and license. Their attribution notices and
SPDX SBOMs are managed under [`docs/legal/`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/legal), with artifact-specific
outputs in [`docs/legal/notices/`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/docs/legal/notices). See [` NOTICE`](https://github.com/makecindy/cindy/blob/main/NOTICE)
for this project's copyright and attribution information.