autodev-app

The AutoDev desktop app — run autonomous AI agents from a GUI instead of a terminal.

npx autodev-app

That's it. No account needed to install, no sudo, no .deb. The first run downloads the app (~126 MB) and unpacks it into ~/.cache/autodev-app/; every run after that starts straight away.

To keep it on your PATH:

npm install -g autodev-app
autodev-app

What you get

A window that runs AutoDev agents for you: connect a character from your office, point it at a folder, and watch it work — live output, sessions, and a file browser in one place. The autodev CLI is bundled, so you don't install it separately.

Requirements

• Linux x64 — other platforms aren't built yet; the launcher tells you so instead of failing strangely.
• Node.js 18+ (only to run this launcher).
• No libfuse2 needed. The AppImage is unpacked rather than FUSE-mounted, so this works on Ubuntu 22.04+ where AppImages otherwise fail out of the box.

Prefer a real system install?

The .deb integrates with your desktop (menu entry, icon) and ships a properly setuid Chromium sandbox, which an unpacked AppImage cannot:

wget https://autodev.code.aioffice.works/download/AutoDev-0.1.0-amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./AutoDev-0.1.0-amd64.deb

Notes

• Integrity: the download is checked against a SHA-256 pinned inside this package before anything is executed. A mismatch aborts.
• Disk: the unpacked app is ~345 MB under ~/.cache/autodev-app/<version>/. Delete that folder to reclaim it or to force a clean re-download.
• Self-hosting: set AUTODEV_APP_DOWNLOAD_BASE to serve the artifact from your own office (the pinned checksum still applies).

Why a launcher and not the app itself

The app links node-pty, a native module built against Electron's ABI. Shipping the sources to npm would rebuild it against your local Node ABI, and the app would install perfectly and then refuse to start. The release artifact already has that solved, so this package fetches it rather than trying to recreate it.

License

MIT