{"slug": "show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows", "title": "Show HN: Mirdel – a local-first AI workspace with UI-based agent workflows", "summary": "Mirdel, a new local-first AI workspace, launched with UI-based agent workflows that allow users to fork conversations, compare models, and manage long-running tasks across knowledge bases, notes, translation, and media generation. The tool unifies conversations, local models, and extensible workflows into reusable presets while storing all data locally in an encrypted SQLite database. Mirdel supports macOS and Windows, enabling users to organize sustained AI work with branched sessions, local RAG, and tool-call approval controls.", "body_md": "### Parallel branches without losing context\n\nFork from any message to compare models, prompts, or reasoning paths.\n\nMove AI beyond chat windows into a long-running workspace. Mirdel unifies conversations, knowledge bases, notes, translation, image and video work, local models, and extensible workflows so repeated processes become reusable capabilities.\n\nMirdel breaks daily AI work into clear workbench modules while preserving shared context, search, model configuration, and a local data layer.\n\nBranch conversations, temporary sessions, quick messages, session notes, and visual relationship maps keep long-running exploration organized.\n\nImport files, folders, and webpages, build local indexes with SQLite and sqlite-vec, and test retrieval quality.\n\nEdit in Tiptap or Markdown, review AI edits as diff proposals, and commit changes only after confirmation.\n\nHandle text, full documents, and dictionary-style parsing with independently configurable translation models.\n\nUnify text-to-image, image-to-image, editing, outpainting, super-resolution, colorization, and style transfer tasks.\n\nConfigure provider-specific resolution, duration, frame rate, reference images, and model capabilities for video workflows.\n\nFrom branched sessions to local RAG, from model capability configuration to tool-call approval, Mirdel focuses on order and control after an AI workspace starts running for real.\n\nFork from any message to compare models, prompts, or reasoning paths.\n\nPackage models, parameters, system prompts, knowledge bases, Skills, and MCP policies into reusable presets.\n\nMirdel includes SearXNG for aggregated search and supports custom search services.\n\nCurrent context, session state, cross-session memory, and long-term user preferences work together for sustained work.\n\nAn embedded llama-server can download, load, and unload local models while exposing a local compatible endpoint.\n\nSensitive Shell and MCP calls require confirmation, while API keys and other sensitive fields are stored encrypted.\n\nMirdel's extension system is not just a plugin list. It organizes procedural knowledge, external tools, and productized workflows into clear layers.\n\nApplets have their own forms, parameters, interaction state, result views, and separate windows, turning frequent tasks from repeated prompting into launch-and-use workflows.\n\nCompatible with SKILL.md organization, with built-in system skills for docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx, skill creation, and more.\n\nSupports stdio, Streamable HTTP, and SSE, with service lifecycle controls, capability inspection, logs, and per-message policy control.\n\nSessions, notes, knowledge bases, configuration, and indexes are stored in a local SQLite database. API keys and sensitive fields are encrypted. You can connect mainstream cloud models, compatible endpoints, or local models.\n\nMirdel supports macOS and Windows. After downloading, configure a cloud model or use the local model runtime to start organizing long-term AI workflows.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows", "canonical_source": "https://www.mirdel.ai", "published_at": "2026-05-27 07:00:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 07:27:40.403007+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "generative-ai", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Mirdel", "Tiptap", "Markdown", "SQLite", "sqlite-vec"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-mirdel-a-local-first-ai-workspace-with-ui-based-agent-workflows.jsonld"}}