Hi Product Hunt, I’m the maker of Mirdel. Mirdel is an open-source, local-first desktop AI workspace for macOS and Windows. We built it because most AI tools still feel like disposable chat tabs: useful in the moment, but hard to organize, preserve, and reuse over time. The main difference is Applets. An Applet is like a Skill with UI and interaction. Instead of repeating the same prompt, pasting the same files, and configuring the same tools again and again, you can turn a stable AI workflow into a small reusable app with forms, parameters, state, result views, and its own window. Mirdel also brings together: - conversations, branches, projects, categories, session notes, and search - local knowledge bases with document parsing and vector indexes - cloud models, compatible endpoints, and local models - built-in web search - notes with AI-assisted edit proposals - translation for text and documents - MCP, Skills, and Applets as complementary extension layers The design principle is local-first where possible. Conversations, notes, knowledge bases, settings, and indexes live locally, and sensitive fields such as API keys are encrypted at rest. We’re still early, and we’d love feedback on: - whether Applets make sense as a separate primitive from Skills and MCP - what repeated AI workflows you would want to turn into UI-based tools - what feels missing from the first-run experience - what would make Mirdel meaningfully better than a normal AI chat client Thanks for checking it out.

Mirdel

Local-first desktop AI workspace with interactive Applets.

Local-first desktop AI workspace with interactive Applets.