Model Desk Releases Version 0.4.1
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Model Desk has released version 0.4.1, a local-first AI workbench for Linux built with Rust and Tauri and released under the MIT license, supporting Lumo, DeepSeek, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Version 0.4.1 adds automatic startup of the Bonsai backend, Lumo Tamer, DeepSeek, and the OpenCode agent. Using these features requires meeting the corresponding conditions: AppImage uses system WebKitGTK 4.1; using Lumo requires running lumo-tamer; using this agent requires installing OpenCode; handling PDF/OCR attachments requires installing poppler-utils, tesseract, and unzip.
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Model Desk is an open-source, MIT-licensed Linux desktop app built with Rust and Tauri that connects to Lumo via lumo-tamer, DeepSeek, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with an OpenCode coding agent, local history, attachments with local OCR, tools with permissions, memory, and a Bonsai image studio. Version 0.4.1 adds automatic Bonsai backend start, Lumo Tamer, DeepSeek, and the OpenCode agent, and is distributed as an AppImage or .deb for Linux x86_64. The app stores data in ~/.config/model-desk and reports no telemetry.
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