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CAPABILITY 05 / 05

Desktop

Desktop software should start before the user finishes clicking. We build Tauri apps with Rust cores that make Electron feel like a different era.

THE POSITION

The desktop is quietly the highest-trust surface a product can occupy — always present, always a keystroke away. That trust is earned in milliseconds: cold start, tray responsiveness, memory footprint. Forgeline proves the numbers: 74 ms to interactive from a 4.8 MB installer.

Our split is strict: Rust owns filesystem, processes, and anything measured in milliseconds; the webview owns pixels. A typed IPC contract keeps the boundary honest — drift is a compile error.

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SEC. 01WHAT WE BUILD
01Windows / macOS / Linux apps from one codebase
02Developer tools, dashboards & operator consoles
03System-tray utilities & background agents
04OS integration — shortcuts, notifications, file associations
05Signed installers & delta auto-update pipelines
06Electron-to-Tauri migrations (10–40× size reduction)
SEC. 02STACK
Tauri

The webview you already know, without the 200 MB apology

Rust

File watching, process supervision, and indexing on native threads

TypeScript

UI layer sharing typed IPC schemas with the core

SQLite

Local state that memory-maps in before the window paints

GitHub Actions

Cross-platform release builds, signing, and notarization

SEC. 03ENGAGEMENT

PHASE 01

Millisecond budget

Cold start, input latency, and idle memory targets set before architecture.

PHASE 02

Core / skin split

Every feature is assigned to Rust or webview by measurement, not preference.

PHASE 03

OS-native pass

Tray, shortcuts, and file handling wired so the app feels first-party.

PHASE 04

Signed & shipped

Code-signing, auto-update, and rollback tested as features, not afterthoughts.

SEC. 04REPRESENTATIVE BUILD
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