Getting started

Requirements

• Node 20 or newer
• Rust, stable channel, with the MSVC toolchain on Windows
• On Windows: Visual Studio Build Tools with the C++ workload, plus the WebView2 runtime

Download a build

Prebuilt Windows installers live on the releases page, and directly on the download section of this site. macOS and Linux do not have a packaged build yet; the source path below runs on either.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/ronak-create/burrow.git
cd burrow
npm install
npm run tauri dev

npm run dev alone serves the frontend but cannot run the app: the workspace layer calls into Rust, which exists only inside the Tauri shell. In a browser tab the first call fails with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'invoke').

Rust-side checks, if changes touch src-tauri:

cd src-tauri
cargo check
cargo test

The first workspace

A workspace is a plain folder, created the first time the app opens. Every workspace is pinnable, and a single search reaches across every board and transcript at once. Whether that first conversation runs against a hosted key or a local model is set in Settings, covered in Local models and Providers & endpoints.