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Near Desktop

Local-first workspace
on your own machine

Near is the desktop UI on top of a local agx serve. It is not a second agent runtime, and it is not the hosted Enterprise portal.

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Near 0.6.0·macOS is Apple silicon; Windows is x64

Near Desktop architecture
A remote agx serve mode is not the default product path.

How Near attaches

Electron starts a local Runtime, writes the port and token, then talks REST and SSE.

Workspace

Multi-pane chat, avatars, and group chat. Folders bind per Meta or avatar. @file keeps an absolute source path.

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Local Runtime

The default path spawns agx serve on this machine. Empty avatar lists usually mean the local server process died, not lost data.

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Studio Server

Near is the renderer. Studio is the FastAPI process that owns sessions, tools, and the agent loop.

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