OpenWorker: initial import

Imported from andrewyng/aisuite@1b4bbf303e
(contents of its platform/ directory, hoisted to the repo root).
Development history prior to this commit lives in that repository.

Co-authored-by: Devika <devikaverma11@gmail.com>

surfaces/gui/README.md

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+# coworker GUI (React + Tauri)
+
+A thin client of the coworker server (OpenAI-compatible API + WS event/approval stream).
+Same codebase runs in a browser (dev) and as the OpenWorker desktop app.
+
+## First time: bootstrap the Python backend
+
+A fresh checkout has no server to run — create the venv both flows below expect:
+
+```bash
+bash platform/packaging/setup_dev_env.sh   # → platform/.venv (server + this repo's aisuite)
+```
+
+## Run it (browser, two terminals)
+
+1. **Start the server** (needs a model key, e.g. `OPENAI_API_KEY`, in the environment —
+   or add one later in the app's Settings):
+   ```bash
+   cd platform
+   ./.venv/bin/coworker-server --cwd /path/to/your/project --port 8765
+   ```
+2. **Start the UI:**
+   ```bash
+   cd platform/surfaces/gui
+   npm install      # first time
+   npm run dev      # → http://localhost:5173
+   ```
+
+Open http://localhost:5173. The UI talks to `http://127.0.0.1:8765` (override with
+`VITE_COWORKER_HTTP` / `VITE_COWORKER_WS`).
+
+## Run the desktop app from source
+
+The Tauri shell wraps the same UI and supervises the Python server itself — no separate
+terminal. It needs the Rust toolchain (`rustup`) plus the venv from the bootstrap step;
+in dev it finds the server at `platform/.venv/bin/coworker-server` automatically (a
+packaged sidecar binary is only produced by the release scripts in `platform/packaging/`).
+
+```bash
+cd platform/surfaces/gui
+npm install        # first time
+npm run tauri dev  # builds the shell, launches the window, starts the server
+```
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+npx tsc --noEmit && npx vitest run   # typecheck + unit
+npx playwright test                  # hermetic e2e (mocked /v1 + WS, no Python needed)
+```