Minke: lencx's Local-First Desktop Workspace for Your AI Agent

Developer lencx, creator of the open-source ChatGPT desktop client, has released Minke, a local-first desktop agent workspace powered by DeepSeek Harness under the Apache-2.0 license. The Electron app unifies conversations, project files, terminals, and visible browser tabs into a single workspace so users can review and edit agent-produced files and take over browser pages, and it supports running DeepSeek Harness locally or bringing your own model. The project is under active development with 637 stars and 69 forks, and its README warns that features, packaging, and the local data schema may change.

If the name lencx sounds familiar, it's probably because of his last project — the ChatGPT desktop client, the open-source app that put ChatGPT on thousands of desktops. His new project is Minke 637 stars, Apache-2.0 : a local-first desktop agent workspace powered by DeepSeek Harness. The pain of working with a coding agent is fragmented context . Your conversation lives in one window, your project files in a file manager, your terminal in another, and your browser tabs scattered everywhere. When the agent is mid-task and you want to see which file it touched, you juggle windows. Minke pulls it into one workspace: work with an agent across conversations, project files, terminals, and visible browser tabs. Take over a page when you need to, review and edit the files the agent produced, or reach your workspace from another device. In short: your agent stops being a black-box chat and becomes a collaborator that shares your context, your files, and your screen. It's under active development — 637 stars, 69 forks, and the README warns that features, packaging, and local data schema may change. Don't expect a stable production tool today. It's also an Electron desktop app, and despite the "DeepSeek Harness" in the title, it's lencx's independent project — you run DeepSeek Harness locally or bring your own model. I've localized the README and core docs to Chinese: https://github.com/yangshun2005/Minke-cn https://github.com/yangshun2005/Minke-cn If you find this project useful, a star on the original repo supports the author's ongoing maintenance.