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Josh Hamilton
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SoloAgent

Desktop AI harness workspace for coding workflows with project-scoped chat context, terminal execution, and live git visibility.

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TypeScriptElectronReact 19TanStack AInode-ptySQLiteTailwind CSS 4

Impact

Built as a practical AI harness experiment to understand state, tool-calling, terminal lifecycle, and git integration tradeoffs in modern AI coding workflows.

SoloAgent is a desktop app experiment I built to better understand AI harness internals in AI-assisted coding workflows.

SoloAgent screenshot

There is no live website yet. This project is currently repo-only:

Why I built it

I wanted first-hand implementation experience with AI harness constraints instead of theory:

  • scoped conversation state per workspace
  • tool-call trace rendering while responses stream
  • terminal lifecycle and shell behavior
  • git diff/PR workflows inside the same product surface

Current capabilities

  • Per-project workspaces and per-space context
  • Streaming chat responses with tool traces
  • PTY-backed terminal tabs/splits
  • Git diff panel and file tree panel
  • SQLite-backed persistence for settings and chat history

Tooling pulled from the repo

  • App/runtime: Electron, React, TypeScript, Node.js 22+, SQLite
  • AI runtime: @tanstack/ai, @tanstack/ai-react, @tanstack/ai-openai, @tanstack/ai-client
  • Terminal/diff: node-pty, ghostty-web, @pierre/diffs
  • UI/state: Tailwind CSS, Radix UI primitives, lucide-react, motion, zustand
  • Quality/build: electron-vite, Vite, electron-builder, ESLint, Prettier, Vitest
  • External CLIs: Git, GitHub CLI (gh), Codex CLI