An AI desktop workspace for conversations, agents, tools, and project work.
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The Boss is the Know Me Tools desktop workspace built on Cherry Studio. It brings multi-provider AI conversations, agent sessions, workspace tools, knowledge and document workflows together with Prometheus integration. This repository owns The Boss source, documentation, and release workflow.
Download the installer for your platform and architecture from The Boss releases. Read that release's notes and platform records for its available installers, UAR profile, signing status, and acceptance evidence. Source support for a platform does not establish that a tested installer is available for it.
The documentation on main describes current source. The UI/UX catalog and team-routing adoption described below were merged after the existing 2.2.2 release; that merge does not establish that the 2.2.2 installers contain them. Use the release runbook for packaging and installed acceptance.
- Conversations and assistants across cloud and local model providers.
- Agent sessions with workspace context, MCP tools, skills, and approval boundaries.
- Knowledge, document, code, and Markdown workflows.
- Prometheus settings for packaged skills, workspace indexing, tools, and optional services.
- Shared renderer components, semantic design tokens, and light/dark themes.
Provider access and optional integrations require their own configuration. See the documentation index for architecture and operational contracts.
The current source distributes 97 mini skills, including 40 portable UI/UX catalog entries, through resources/skills/. The shared prometheus-ui-ux router selects project context, focused Pro Max guidance, craft, and platform instructions. prometheus-ui-review defines independent review at a completed UI phase; it does not automatically launch a browser or certify an application.
The existing ten-role boss-core team is adopted through the project routing record. UI work goes to boss-ux and boss-renderer; completed UI acceptance goes to boss-verifier. Existing tokens, Electron workflows, permissions, and ownership remain authoritative.
Read UI/UX routing and team adoption for commands, prerequisites, installation boundaries, deferred engine support, and evidence limits.
Use the Node version in .node-version, the engine range and pnpm pin in package.json, and the development guide. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md and the repository instructions in CLAUDE.md. Active development targets this repository's main branch.
- Documentation index
- UI/UX routing and team adoption
- Design system
- The Boss release workflow
- Upstream merge policy
Documentation lives in this repository as Markdown. The index is generated from document headings and frontmatter with pnpm docs:index; the completed documentation gate is pnpm docs:check.
The Boss is derived from Cherry Studio. Upstream contributors, copyright notices, and license obligations remain applicable. See LICENSE for the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
The Boss name and logo identify this fork. Existing @cherrystudio/* package names, Cherry-operated services, and historical migration identifiers are technical contracts; their presence does not redirect this project's downloads, documentation, or support to upstream.