Cherry Studio Documentation

Guides

Document	Description
Development Setup	Development environment setup
Contributing	How to contribute code
Branching Strategy	Git branching workflow
Test Plan	Test plan and release channels
i18n Guide	Internationalization guide
Logging Guide	How to use the logger service
Middleware	How to write AI Provider middleware

References

Architecture

Document	Description
Architecture Overview	System-wide architecture, process model, data flow

AI Core

Document	Description
AI Reference	Main-process AI pipeline: stream manager, agent loop, providers, tools
Core Architecture	End-to-end call flow from user input to LLM response
Stream Manager	Active-stream registry, broker, reconnect, persistence
Adapter Family	How endpoint → @ai-sdk/* package routing is decided

Data System

Document	Description
Data System Overview	System selection, architecture, and patterns
Boot Config Overview	Early boot configuration system
Boot Config Schema Guide	Adding new boot config keys
Cache Overview	Three-tier caching architecture and design invariants
Cache Usage	useCache hooks, direct API, Main-process subscriptions
Cache Schema Guide	Adding new cache keys (fixed and template)
Preference Overview	User settings management
Preference Usage	usePreference hook examples
Preference Schema Guide	Adding new preference keys
DataApi Overview	Business data API architecture
DataApi in Renderer	useQuery/useMutation patterns
DataApi in Main	Handlers, Services, Repositories
API Design Guidelines	RESTful design rules
API Types	API type system, schemas, error handling
Database Patterns	DB naming, schema patterns
Layered Preset Pattern	Presets with user overrides
V2 Migration Guide	Migration system

Lifecycle System

Document	Description
Lifecycle Overview	Architecture, decision guides, usage
Application Overview	Application bootstrap and shutdown
Lifecycle Internals	Phases, hooks, states
Lifecycle Usage	Full usage guide with examples
Lifecycle Decision Guide	Lifecycle vs singleton decision
Lifecycle Migration Guide	Migrating old services

Messaging

Document	Description
Message System	Message lifecycle, state management, operations
Composer Rich Clipboard	Private composer token clipboard format and copy/paste flow
Message Tree	Chat message-tree model: adjacency list, per-topic virtual root, sibling groups, invariants, delete semantics, getTree / flow-canvas contract
Chat UI Design & Conventions	How the chat UI is divided by responsibility (presentation / view-state / contracts / orchestration) and the conventions modules follow (context, refs, render stability)
Chat Adapters	The chat contract layer: projecting topics / sessions / messages into stable UI shapes, the pane / action registries, and render-stability rules

Knowledge

Document	Description
Knowledge Product Spec	Condensed product semantics for Agent-managed knowledge bases (full version lives in Feishu)
Knowledge Technical Design	Condensed per-base index.sqlite schema, index store contracts, and retrieval decisions (full version lives in Feishu)
KnowledgeService	Concurrency control and workload management
Knowledge Operation Guards	Guard, enqueue failure, and recovery semantics for add/delete/reindex

Components

Document	Description
CodeBlockView	Code block view component
Image Preview	Image preview components
Code Execution	Python code execution via Pyodide
UI Semantic Contract	data-ui token protocol, stability tiers, and maintained selectors for themes, tests, and AI tooling

Other

Document	Description
Frontend Testing Guidelines	Frontend test design and review
App Upgrade Config	Application upgrade configuration
Feishu Notify	Feishu notification integration
Fuzzy Search	Fuzzy search implementation
LAN Transfer Protocol	LAN file transfer protocol spec
Remote Fetch Safety	Main-process direct URL fetch SSRF guardrails