Collab Public

Collaborator

Collaborator is a place to build with agents.


Collaborator is an end-to-end environment for agentic development. Terminals, context files, and running code — all arranged on an infinite canvas in one place. No context switching, no tab hunting. Just your agents and your work, side by side.

The app is early-stage and in active development, with native desktop targets for macOS, Windows, and Linux. On Windows, terminal sessions can target both PowerShell and WSL2 distros.

Install

**[Download the latest release](https://github.com/collaborator-ai/collab-public/releases/latest)** for macOS, Windows, or Linux.

macOS and Linux also support command-line install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/collaborator-ai/collab-public/main/install.sh | bash

Windows: use the `.exe` installer from the releases page.

Stack

Collaborator is a native desktop app built with:

• **Electron 40** — desktop shell with multi-webview architecture

• **React 19** — UI framework

• **Tailwind CSS 4** — styling

• **electron-vite** — build tooling with hot reload

• **xterm.js** — terminal emulation backed by a persistent node-pty sidecar

• **Monaco Editor** — code editing with syntax highlighting

• **BlockNote / TipTap** — rich text markdown editing

• **D3** — force-directed graph visualization

• **sharp** — image processing

• **KaTeX** — math rendering in markdown

All data is stored locally on disk.

Quickstart

1. Open Collaborator

2. Add a workspace — click the workspace dropdown in the navigator and choose "Add workspace", or press Cmd+Shift+O, then select a local folder

3. Double-click the canvas to create a terminal, and start an agent

4. Drag files from the navigator onto the canvas to open them as tiles alongside your running agents

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Specification

Application overview

Collaborator is a single-window application for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It operates primarily on local files wi