Rohit C Prasad
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ChatStore = groups + append-only messages + per-member cursors; agent posts wake mentions only, user posts wake everyone; post_chat(record_on_item) also lands the answer as an item comment. Leads name workers (the callname is the handle everywhere); worker digests auto-carry the roster; gate checkbox is the user's call; canceling an assigned item now interrupts an in-flight worker.
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 (from the repo root):
bash packaging/setup_dev_env.sh # → .venv (server + aisuite)
Run it (browser, two terminals)
- Start the server (needs a model key, e.g.
OPENAI_API_KEY, in the environment — or add one later in the app's Settings), from the repo root:./.venv/bin/openworker-server --cwd /path/to/your/project --port 8765 - Start the UI:
cd 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). Start the server before Vite so the
UI can read its per-launch token from <state-dir>/sidecar-8765.token; restart
Vite if the server is restarted.
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 .venv/bin/openworker-server automatically (a
packaged sidecar binary is only produced by the release scripts in packaging/).
cd surfaces/gui
npm install # first time
npm run tauri dev # builds the shell, launches the window, starts the server
Tests
npx tsc --noEmit && npx vitest run # typecheck + unit
npx playwright test # hermetic e2e (mocked /v1 + WS, no Python needed)