Product updates, technical deep dives, and thoughts on building a personal AI runtime.
EngineeringApril 28, 2026
Alphie Desktop is here — native client built on Tauri
After months of prototyping, Alphie Desktop is now available for macOS. Built with Tauri for speed and a small footprint, the public build ships zero credentials — sign in inside the app, your data stays on your device.
Pre-retrieval injection: making search actually work
Why letting the LLM decide when to call internal_search produces lousy results, and how injecting pre-retrieved skills and tools into the context window every turn fixes it without bloating the prompt.
We borrowed RAG's vector search but layered it inside a working-memory → profile → skill pipeline. Here's why "records of who you are" beats "records of what you said."