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BaseHalf
Open a folder as a canvas, with your AI agents beside it
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Open a folder as a canvas, with your AI agents beside it
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Keep what you and your AI agents work out in one folder you can see. BaseHalf opens a folder as a canvas, and every file in it is a card: notes, PDFs, books, images, video, code. A line from a card to a note is saved as plain text in the note, so it shows up in git. Claude Code, Codex or any terminal agent works beside the canvas on the same files and knows which card you mean by "this". Generate images, video and sound with your own API keys. No account. Free and open source.
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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second
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Hi Product Hunt,
I built BaseHalf because my work with Claude Code and Codex kept disappearing into chat history. Every new session, I explained the project again. Files don't have that problem: they stay in the folder, and the next agent can read them.
So BaseHalf opens a folder as a canvas. Every file in it becomes a card: notes, PDFs, books, images, video, code. Draw a line from one card to a note and BaseHalf adds one line of plain text to that note, naming the card. The connection lives in the file, so it shows up in git diff and any agent can follow it.
The agents run in terminals next to the canvas, on the same files. Select a card or a passage, ask about "this", and the agent knows what you mean. You can also keep your AI app on the other half of the screen and open the same folder there. That's where the name comes from.
You can use the canvas as a mind map, a notebook for papers and books, or a storyboard for AI video. Images, video and sound are generated with your own API keys, straight from your computer to the provider.
There's no account and no server of its own. It's built on VS Code's open-source code and licensed Apache-2.0. For now it runs on macOS on Apple Silicon, and the app isn't notarized yet, so the first launch needs one terminal command (it's on the download page).
It's early and changes quickly. If you try it, tell me what gets in your way.