RunAnywhere AI (Windows desktop)

The shipping desktop app built on @runanywhere/electron. Everything runs on-device — chat, reasoning, your own knowledge base (RAG), voice, and vision. No prompt, document, or audio leaves the machine.

This is the app we package and publish; examples/electron/RunAnywhereAI remains the SDK's example/demo.

Run it

Double-click the RunAnywhere AI desktop shortcut, or:

bat

"examples\electron\RunAnywhereAI\RunAnywhere AI.cmd"
"examples\electron\RunAnywhereAI\RunAnywhere AI (GPU).cmd"

or from a terminal:

bat

cd examples/electron/RunAnywhereAI
npm start          :: CPU
npm run start:gpu  :: CUDA

Prerequisites: the SDK must be built (cd sdk/runanywhere-electron && npm install && npm run build) and a native prebuild present under sdk/runanywhere-electron/prebuilds/.

If the window never appears, check that ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE isn't set — it makes electron.exe run as plain Node. The .cmd launcher clears it.

Layout

File	Purpose
`main.js`	Electron main: forks the utility host (native addon), owns the window + local JSON store
`preload.js`	Loads the SDK preload (`window.runanywhere`) and exposes `window.appStore`
`renderer.js` / `index.html`	The UI — Chat, Models, Settings, Structured, Tools, Vision, Embeddings, Knowledge, Voice, VAD
`assets/make-icon.js`	Regenerates `assets/icon.ico` + `icon.png` (zero deps) — `npm run icon`

Conversations, settings, and custom models persist as JSON under %APPDATA%\RunAnywhere AI\.

Compute device

CPU by default. The CUDA prebuild is used only when explicitly requested (--gpu / RA_GPU=1) and present — loading it without an NVIDIA driver stack fails, so it is never the silent default. The active device is shown in the header.

Self-test

Runs the real code paths headlessly and exits 0/1:

bat

set RA_SELFTEST=1 && npx electron .

Packaging (not wired yet)

Publishing to the Microsoft Store goes through a Win32 NSIS installer built with electron-builder. When that lands, the native .node and its sidecar DLLs must be asarUnpacked — native modules cannot be loaded from inside app.asar.