The Datacore desktop app

Your second brain, your chat and your Chief of Staff in one window — the same ~/Data the terminal uses, nothing duplicated.

Build from source · packaged downloads coming

There is no download yet

The app is real and in daily use, but it is not yet published as a signed, notarised download. Until it is, you build it from source. We would rather say that plainly than hand you a link that installs nothing.

You do not need the app. The terminal install is complete and supported on its own — the desktop app is a different front end onto the same second brain, not a missing piece of it.

Install Datacore first

If you have not already:

npx @datacore-one/cli init

That installs Datacore and PLUR together, registers both MCP servers, and sets up your Chief of Staff. Full instructions for agents: datacore.one/install.txt.

Build the app

Requires Go 1.22+, Node 20+, Python 3.11+ and Wails.

git clone https://github.com/datacore-one/datacore-app
cd datacore-app
bash scripts/build.sh

The build lands at shell/build/bin/datacore-app.app. Move it to /Applications and launch it; it finds your existing ~/Data and daemon on its own.

The repository is currently private. If you cannot clone it, you are not missing a step — access is not open yet.

What it adds over the terminal