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从思想到工程：FROST 与 FROST-SOP 的双生之旅 你知道吗？每一个伟大的工程背后，都有一个简单而深刻的起点。 引言：从 500 行到 5000 行的演进 在开源世界里，我们见过太多"大而全"的框架——它们功能丰富，却让人望而生畏。今天我想分享一个反其道而行之的项目： FROST 。 FROST （Fractal Runtime of Orchestrated Skills & Tasks）最初只是一个 500 行的教学框架，用最朴素的代码讲述 Agent 的本质。它的核心哲学只有一句话： 细胞会死，但谱系会存续。Agent 会消亡，但宪法会传承。资产会永存。 而今天我要介绍的，是 FROST 思想"开花结果"后的工程实践—— FROST-SOP ，一个拥有 5000+ 行代码的完整 Agent 工程平台。 FROST：理解 Agent 的钥匙 FROST 不是什么复杂的框架。它的设计哲学是 最小原子集 + 分形宪法 ： 四个原子，理解一切 原子 职责 生物学类比 Store 记忆容器，只做 save/load/delete 细胞核 Skill 纯能力单元，无状态无副作用 蛋白质 Agent 膜包裹的细胞，拥有 Store + Skills 神经细胞 SOP 有序步骤列表，可教学、校验、优化 宪法文本 from core import Store , Agent , skill_set , skill_get store = Store () agent = Agent ( " cell " , store , skills = { " set_context " : skill_set , " get_context " : skill_get }) result = agent . run ( sop_steps = [ " set_context " , " get_context " ], initial_context = { " key " : " message " , " value " : " FROST is alive " } ) # result["_result"] == "FROST is alive" 5 行代码，你就能理解整个 Agent 系统的运作原理。这就是 FROST 的魔力—— 用最少的代码，讲述最深的道理 。 五维元模型（V4.0/V5.0） FROST V4.0 引入的五维元模型，将框架从扁平升级为多维度 Agent 编排系统： 武器注册表 ：能力的元数据管理与发现 任务注册表 ：DAG 任务编排与图谱 SOP 事件编目 ：态势感知与双模式事件分析 平台注册表 ：外部能力的发现、调用与健康检查 规则注册表 ：可版本化的治理约束与合规检查 197 个测试用例保障质量，最新 Release： FROST v5.0.0 FROST-SOP：思想的工程化 FROST 教会我们理解，FROST-SOP 教会我们构建。 事件驱动的 Agent 家族 FROST-SOP 实现了完整的 祖辈 → 父辈 → 子辈 三层递归架构： import asyncio from core.event_bus import get_async_event_bus , Event , EventType from agents.ancestor import create_ancestor from agents.parent import create_parent async def main (): bus = get_async_event_bus () # 创建事件驱动的 Agent 家族 ancestor = create_ancestor ( constitution , asset , event_driven = True ) parent = create_parent ( " parent-1 " , store , event_driven = True , asset_store = asset , sop_id = " DEV-001 " ) # 发布任务，Agent 家族自动响应 await bus . publish ( Event ( event_type = EventType . TASK_CREATED , source = " user " , data = { " task_id " : " task-001 " , " task_description " : " 开发一个用户登录功能 " } )) await asyncio . sleep ( 10 ) asyncio . run ( main ()) 完整的工程特性 特性 说明 19 个内置 Skill

I have been building AI products for a while and kept running into the same problem. Every project that involves querying documents with AI requires the same foundation before you can build anything interesting: a chunking strategy, an embedding pipeline, a vector database, re-ingestion logic when content changes, and a retrieval layer on top. It is not hard, it is just a lot, and it is not the part you actually want to be building. So I built Kognita to handle it as a managed API. You push content in via API, text or files, and get back hybrid search over a knowledge base. Kognita handles chunking, embedding, indexing, and automatically re-embeds when you update content. It is opinionated: we pick the embedding model and chunking strategy. The trade-off is less flexibility for a much faster path to a working knowledge layer. What we are looking for We want 10 teams who are building something that needs a knowledge layer and are willing to test it honestly. The ask is: what broke, what was confusing, what you needed that was missing. Not looking for compliments. Looking for people who will actually use it and tell us where it falls short. What you get Unlimited knowledge bases 10 GB storage 100 GB egress per month 50 GB file storage No credit card. No time limit. Higher than our standard paid plan. Who it is for Engineering teams building AI features over documents who do not want to manage the underlying infrastructure themselves. If you need full control over your embedding models or retrieval strategies, this is probably not the right fit. If you want to skip the pipeline and get to building, it might be. How to get started Sign up at kognita.io. Drop a comment here if you sign up and I will make sure you are on the early adopter tier.

The Token Bucket Algorithm: Server-Side API Rate Limiting in ~40 Lines Plenty of tutorials teach you how to survive someone else's rate limit with retries and backoff. Far fewer show you how to build one. If you run an API, you need rate limiting on your side too — to protect your database from a runaway client, keep one noisy tenant from starving everyone else, and give abusive traffic a polite 429 instead of a melted server. The cleanest algorithm for the job is the token bucket . Let's implement it from scratch, then make it production-ready. How token bucket works Picture a bucket that holds up to capacity tokens. Every request removes one token. The bucket refills at a steady refillRate (tokens per second), up to its cap. If a request arrives and the bucket is empty, it's rejected. This gives you two useful properties at once: A sustained rate — the long-run average, set by refillRate . A burst allowance — clients can spend the whole bucket at once, set by capacity . That burst tolerance is why token bucket feels fair. A user who's been quiet for a minute can fire off a batch of requests without being punished for it. A minimal implementation Here's a self-contained bucket in JavaScript. No dependencies, no timers — we compute refill lazily based on elapsed time, which is both simpler and more accurate than a background interval. class TokenBucket { constructor ( capacity , refillRatePerSec ) { this . capacity = capacity ; this . refillRate = refillRatePerSec ; this . tokens = capacity ; this . lastRefill = Date . now (); } _refill () { const now = Date . now (); const elapsedSec = ( now - this . lastRefill ) / 1000 ; this . tokens = Math . min ( this . capacity , this . tokens + elapsedSec * this . refillRate ); this . lastRefill = now ; } take ( cost = 1 ) { this . _refill (); if ( this . tokens >= cost ) { this . tokens -= cost ; return { ok : true , remaining : Math . floor ( this . tokens ) }; } const deficit = cost - this . tokens ; const retryAfter = Mat

Memory Chips Supply chain strategy from electronics production engineering, 500–50k units/year Introduction "Order from Digi-Key" is a prototyping strategy, not a production strategy. The 2020–2023 IC shortage demonstrated that supply chain resilience must be designed in — not improvised when lead times hit 52 weeks. The Sourcing Tier Structure Tier Examples MOQ Price Premium Lead Time Risk Authorized dist. Digi-Key, Mouser, Newark 1 pc +25–40% 1–3 days (stock) Lowest Franchise dist. Arrow, Avnet, TTI 100–1k Baseline 2–8 weeks Low Manufacturer direct TI, Infineon, ST portals 1k–10k+ −10 to −30% 8–20 weeks Low Regional aggregators IC-Online, local dist. Mixed Variable Variable Medium Spot market Brokers, eBay 1 pc +50 to +500% Days High Never use spot market for ICs without incoming inspection. Counterfeit STM32, ESP32, and common analog ICs are well-documented. Volume Pricing Reality Illustrative for a $2.50 MCU: Volume Digi-Key Arrow/Avnet Manufacturer Direct 100 $3.10 $2.65 N/A 1,000 $2.75 $2.15 $1.85 10,000 $2.40 $1.70 $1.25 50,000 $2.10 $1.40 $0.90 The franchise/direct savings are material at 1k+ units. Establishing Arrow or Avnet relationships pays for the admin overhead within 2 production cycles. BOM Resilience Framework For each critical component, document: Primary source : authorized distribution or direct Secondary distributor : alternative channel for same part Alternate part : functionally equivalent, different manufacturer, validated Buffer stock : target weeks at production rate Lead time worst-case : historical peak, not current During normal periods: 4-week buffer, one secondary source, one qualified alternate. For 5+ year product lifecycles: qualify the alternate before you need it. Practical Sourcing Mix: 500–5k Units/Year Component Type Primary Secondary Notes Commodity passives Digi-Key/Mouser + Yageo/Walsin Arrow Annual pricing agreements MCUs < $3 Arrow direct IC-Online for gap fills 90-day POs, buffer stock MCUs $3–$10 Manufacturer direct + A

Written from months of grinding on shielded liquidity DeFi protocols on Midnight. If you've been trying to build anything serious with shielded fungible tokens on Midnight lending protocols, liquidity pools, DEXes you've probably hit some walls that the documentation doesn't fully prepare you for. The Midnight programming model around shielded tokens is genuinely different from anything in the EVM world, and a lot of the intuitions you carry from Solidity or even other ZK environments will get you into trouble fast. This post is a breakdown of the most impactful errors and misconceptions I ran into while building shielded liquidity DeFi contracts using Midnight's Compact language. These are not theoretical every single one of these either broke a circuit or caused a proof server failure at some point. I'll walk through what the issue is, why it happens, and what the correct pattern looks like. Background: How Shielded Tokens Actually Work Under the Hood Before we get into the errors, let's get clear on the underlying mechanics because this context is what makes the errors make sense. Midnight uses a protocol called Zswap for shielded token operations. When a user sends tokens to your contract by calling receiveShielded , what actually happens is more involved than it looks on the surface. When your circuit calls receiveShielded(coin) , the Compact runtime records a shielded receive obligation in the transaction being constructed. At this point, the proof server kicks in to generate the ZK proof for your circuit. But here's the thing your circuit only describes what the contract side is doing. The transaction still needs to be balanced : the tokens being received by the contract have to come from somewhere. This is where the wallet gets involved through an internal mechanism that runs beneath your circuit. The wallet looks at the ShieldedCoinInfo you're receiving the coin's color (token type) and value and finds a matching UTXO in the user's private coin set. It then

Web Scraping with Python in 2026: Best Libraries and Anti-Bot Strategies Web scraping in 2026 looks very different from 2020. Sites are smarter, anti-bot systems are more aggressive, and the legal landscape has evolved. Here's what actually works now. The 2026 Scraping Landscape Challenge 2020 Solution 2026 Solution Bot detection Rotate User-Agent Fingerprint randomization + residential proxies CAPTCHAs Manual solving Turnstile/hCaptcha solvers JavaScript rendering Selenium Playwright (faster, more reliable) Rate limiting Sleep between requests Adaptive pacing + request signing IP blocking VPN rotation Residential proxy pools Best Libraries in 2026 1. Playwright (Best for JS-heavy sites) from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright def scrape_with_playwright ( url ): with sync_playwright () as p : browser = p . chromium . launch ( headless = True ) page = browser . new_page () page . goto ( url , wait_until = " networkidle " ) data = page . query_selector_all ( " .job-item " ) results = [] for item in data : title = item . query_selector ( " h2 " ). text_content () results . append ( title ) browser . close () return results 2. httpx + Selectolax (Fast, no JS needed) import httpx from selectolax.parser import HTMLParser def scrape_static ( url ): resp = httpx . get ( url , headers = { " User-Agent " : " Mozilla/5.0 " }) tree = HTMLParser ( resp . text ) for node in tree . css ( " .listing " ): print ( node . text ()) 3. API-First Approach (Always check first!) Many sites have hidden or public APIs that make scraping unnecessary: url = " https://www.freelancer.com/api/projects/0.1/projects/active/?query=python " data = httpx . get ( url ). json () Anti-Bot Strategies That Work 1. Request Fingerprint Randomization import random def get_random_headers (): browsers = [ " Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 " , " Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 " , ] return { " User-Agent " : random . choice ( browsers ), " A

GitHub Trending Digest: Optimasi Agent, Parsing Gambar Skala Besar, dan Evolusi Sistem Operasi Selamat datang di edisi digest GitHub Trending minggu ini (30 Juni 2026). Pasar pengembangan perangkat lunak di tengah tahun 2026 menunjukkan pergeseran menarik dari sekadar "membuat model AI lebih pintar" menjadi "membuat sistem AI lebih efisien dan terintegrasi secara mendalam". Tren utama minggu ini didominasi oleh dua tema besar. Pertama, optimasi biaya dan komputasi untuk AI Agents . Kita melihat alat-alat yang berfokus pada pengurangan latency dan peningkatan efektivitas kode yang dihasilkan, dengan filosofi bahwa kode terbaik adalah kode yang tidak perlu ditulis sama sekali. Kedua, kemampuan pemrosesan visual skala enterprise yang melampaui batas konvensi image-to-text tradisional, memungkinkan parsing dokumen kompleks dalam satu langkah ( one-shot ). Di sisi infrastruktur, ada gerakan balik menuju sistem operasi yang minimalis dan deterministik, yang ditunjukkan oleh meningkatnya minat terhadap dokumentasi dan basis kode dari proyek Astrid OS. Berikut adalah lima repository paling populer minggu ini yang merefleksikan tren tersebut. 1. DietrichGebert/ponytail (JavaScript) Star: 68,413 | Tagline: Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev. Repository ponytail telah mengambil alih posisi puncak dengan jumlah bintang yang sangat signifikan. Seperti namanya, alat ini bekerja untuk membuat agen AI berpikir seperti "senior developer termalas" di ruangan tersebut. Filosofi intinya sederhana namun revolusioner: The best code is the code you never wrote (Kode terbaik adalah kode yang tidak pernah Anda tulis). Kenapa Trending? Di era di mana penggunaan LLM untuk generating code sudah menjadi standar, bottleneck baru muncul: hasil generate yang terlalu verbose, kurang efisien, atau bahkan redundan. Ponytail bertindak sebagai lapisan optimasi yang agresif. Alat ini tidak hanya menghasilkan kode, tetapi juga meragukan kebutuhan akan kode tersebut, mencari celah untuk

Breaking long documents into overlapping chunks, preserving context, and reassembling with FastAPI At LectuLibre, we’ve built an AI‑powered platform that translates entire books—EPUBs and PDFs—using large language models. When we first hooked up Claude’s API, we naively fed it a 300‑page PDF in one request. It failed immediately. Claude 3 Opus has a 200K token window, but a 300‑page book can easily run to 300K tokens or more. Even if we squeezed it in, the output would be truncated and the quality would degrade at the extremes of the context window. So we faced a classic long‑document problem: how do you translate a book that’s larger than the model’s context window? Here’s the real approach we ended up with, the code we wrote, and the lessons we learned. The Problem: Token Limits Are Real Claude 3 Opus and Haiku models (and most LLMs) have a maximum context length—200,000 tokens for Opus. A token is roughly ¾ of a word. A 300‑page novel with ~75,000 words translates to about 100K tokens, so it should fit, right? But translations from English to Spanish can expand by 15–20%, and the prompt instructions, system message, and the user message itself all eat into that budget. Plus, we needed to send the entire source text in every call to give the model full context. That’s not feasible. We could have tried a simple split: cut the book at arbitrary page boundaries and translate piecemeal. That fails spectacularly. Narrative breaks mid‑sentence, and phrases like “the previous chapter” lose their referents. We needed a more intelligent chunking strategy. Our Approach: Sliding Window with Overlapping Paragraphs We settled on a sliding window chunking algorithm based on paragraphs, with a generous overlap. Here’s the idea: Split the source text into paragraphs (using \n\n ). Build chunks of max_chunk_tokens (we used 180,000 to keep a safety margin), adding paragraphs one by one and counting tokens with tiktoken . When the chunk exceeds the limit, we start a new chunk but we

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It's pretty common to throw a layer of HTTP Basic auth on a WordPress site: a staging environment before launch, an internal test instance only employees should see, or any environment that wants an extra gate before the WordPress login screen itself. From a maintenance-tool point of view, this setup creates a peculiar "half-working, half-broken" asymmetry. The SSH/WP-CLI side runs fine. But everything HTTP-based — visual checks, thumbnail generation, browser-based fallback updates — hits 401 and dies. This post walks through how we resolved that asymmetry. What was breaking — two parallel paths, both blocked A maintenance tool actually touches a Basic-auth-protected site through two distinct paths: Playwright path : visual checks, thumbnail capture, browser fallback updates when SSH isn't available. browser.new_context() → navigation → screenshot urllib path : HTTP status checks (pre/post-update 200/5xx/4xx monitoring, rollback decisions) With no credentials, both paths see a 401 Unauthorized from the protected site. The Playwright symptom is the obvious one: the screenshot you save is the browser's "authentication required" dialog. The thumbnail grid fills with dark auth-prompt images, and you start wondering whether anything actually works. The urllib symptom is much worse — it silently breaks rollback decisions . A 401 baseline followed by another 401 after the update looks like "nothing changed = healthy." Real failures can hide behind that match, and the rollback that should have fired never does. The design — consolidate credential extraction into one helper When the same credentials need to flow through multiple code paths, picking them out of the site dict separately at each call site invites format-mismatch and missed-update bugs. So the first thing we did was build a small core/basic_auth_utils.py module that owns every form of credential extraction . # core/basic_auth_utils.py def get_basic_auth_tuple ( site ): """ Return (user, password), or None if not

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay for a $19.99 Meta One Premium subscription. […]

My hackathon journey didn't start with winning. It started with losing. My first hackathon was BlueHacks 2025 . We spent almost all of our time building and very little time understanding the business side of our project. When it came time to pitch, we struggled to explain why our solution mattered. That experience taught me an important lesson: A great product means nothing if people don't understand its value. Next came GCash's invite-only hackathon . We didn't win, but I walked away with something more valuable than a trophy. I learned more about product thinking, working with data, and met someone named Neo, who would later become a key part of my hackathon journey. Then came the YSES Hackathon . Once again, we fell short. We believed we had built a strong solution, but we made the same mistake. We focused too much on the technology and too little on market validation, business models, and the value our product created. Everything changed during Based Space Batch 002 . It was my first international blockchain hackathon, and it completely changed how I approached building products. During the program, Sir Eli Becislao, then Country Lead of Base Philippines, emphasized the importance of storytelling, pitching, and business strategy. That was when I realized hackathons aren't just coding competitions. They're startup simulations. Our team eventually pivoted our idea and built NameThat , a Web3 platform on Base where users could earn rewards for creative names and ideas. Although we didn't win, we received the Most Pivoting Project Award , recognizing how much we improved our solution throughout the competition. That experience became a turning point. Next was the Philippine Blockchain Week ICP Hackathon . Simply being selected as one of the Top 50 teams in the Philippines already felt like an achievement. Then we were invited to present FarmChain on the Philippine Blockchain Week stage. When the results came out, we finished Top 6 out of 50 teams . To some, sixth p

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This continues from Part ① . In Part ②, we'll configure the common settings and the internal-processing Power Automate flows. Common Settings Setting Up Connections Open Power Automate ( https://make.powerautomate.com ) Go to "Data" → "Connections" → "New connection" and create a Microsoft Dataverse connection Do the same to create an Office 365 Outlook connection Basic Flow Creation Steps Click "Create" → select "Automated cloud flow" (event-triggered) or "Scheduled cloud flow" (recurring) Name flows in the format [Zone]-[Number] [Description] (e.g., "A-1 Opportunity Stage Stall Alert") Always run a test after creating a flow to verify it works 2. Internal-Processing PA Flows — 4 Flows (Write-back portions of A-4, C-5, C-6, D-3) Once the common settings are done, it's time to build. A-4: Write Back Stage Changed Date Without this flow, the stall-day calculations in A-1 and B-1 will not work. Implement this first. In Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), a "stage" refers to a major milestone in a process — such as a sales deal or customer engagement — that guides the responsible person through what needs to happen next. It's how a series of activities is visualized and managed. From here, all work is done in Power Automate. Step Task Details 1 Create the flow "Automated cloud flow" → select trigger "When a row is added, modified or deleted (Dataverse)" 2 Configure trigger Table: Opportunities / Change type: Modified 3 Add condition Add a "Condition" action: "When Status Reason (statuscode) has changed" 4 Write-back action "Update a row (Dataverse)" → set cr917_stage_changed_date to utcNow() C-5: Auto-Set Renewal Date + Auto-Create Renewal Opportunity (on Won) On Won close, two things happen: ① auto-set the renewal date to close date + 365 days, and ② auto-create a new Opportunity for the renewal cycle and add it to the pipeline. Step Task Details 1 Create the flow "Automated cloud flow" → trigger "When a row is added, modified or deleted (Dataverse)" 2 Configure trigger Ta

Every open-source CVE backlog has that one line item you keep sliding into next quarter. The library is a couple of majors behind, the upgrade breaks four services, and the fix upstream ships against a version you cannot ride to. So you file the ticket again. (Everyone's doing great, thanks for asking.) On June 30, Aikido Security said it had acquired Root, whose whole pitch is to make that ticket go away by another route: patch the vulnerability directly into the version already resolved by your build, and skip the upgrade entirely. Per The New Stack, the deal is worth $70 million, and Root's patching technology gets folded into a new Aikido product. Let me phrase what has just moved as plainly as I can. A vendor now edits open-source packages on your behalf and hands you back a version string upstream never shipped. If that sentence made you flinch, hold the flinch. It is doing useful work. The problem this is actually solving The dirty secret of dependency remediation is that a lot of "known" CVEs sit unfixed because remediating them means a version bump that carries breaking changes. You do not get a security patch for the 2.x line, you get a "fixed in 4.0" release note and a laugh track. Backporting the fix is the right operational move: keep the API surface, change only the vulnerable bytes. Linux distributions have done exactly this for decades. The reason your app team is not doing it too is that nobody has the muscle to maintain a patched fork of every transitive dependency in a lockfile. If Aikido now makes that muscle available to the average CI/CD owner, teams get a lever they simply did not have. That is the honest upside. Own it. Who is signing what, exactly Here is the part I care about, which is trust. When your build resolves a package by name and version, you rely on a chain: the registry answers, the digest matches what upstream published, the SBOM you generate downstream still refers back to that same identity. A backported build breaks that chai

You've got a rough draft. Bullet points, half-finished paragraphs, maybe some notes you pasted from a meeting. It needs to become a real document — but rewriting takes time you don't have. That's exactly where AI Assist comes in. What AI Assist Does AI Assist lives inside PaperQuire's editor. Select any text, right-click, and choose an action: Rewrite — Rephrase your selection for clarity and tone, keeping the meaning intact Expand — Turn bullet points or short notes into full paragraphs Summarize — Condense a long section into a concise summary Fix grammar — Clean up spelling, punctuation, and awkward phrasing Translate — Convert your text to another language Custom prompt — Tell the AI exactly what you want ("make this more formal", "add examples", "simplify for a non-technical audience") Every action works on your selection — you stay in control of what gets changed and what doesn't. Bring Your Own Key PaperQuire doesn't route your content through our servers. You plug in your own API key from any supported provider: OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini) Anthropic (Claude Sonnet, Claude Haiku) Google (Gemini Pro) Local models (Ollama, LM Studio — for fully air-gapped workflows) Your documents, your key, your choice. Nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly configure an external provider. A Real Workflow: Meeting Notes to Executive Summary Here's a concrete example. You come out of a 45-minute meeting with this: - Q2 revenue up 12% vs forecast - APAC expansion delayed, regulatory issues - New pricing tier launching Aug 1 - Customer churn down to 3.2%, lowest ever - Engineering headcount: 3 open roles, 2 offers out - Board meeting moved to July 18 Select all, click Expand , and AI Assist turns it into: Q2 revenue came in 12% above forecast, driven primarily by enterprise upsells in North America. The planned APAC expansion has been delayed due to unresolved regulatory requirements in two target markets; the team is working with local counsel to clear the path for a

We're excited to launch PaperQuire — a desktop app that turns plain Markdown into professional, print-ready PDFs. No cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscriptions required for personal use. Why We Built PaperQuire If you write in Markdown, you've probably hit this wall: your content looks great in your editor, but the moment you need to share it as a polished document — a proposal, a report, a spec — you're stuck copy-pasting into Word or fighting with LaTeX. We wanted something simpler. Write in Markdown, click Export, and get a document that looks like a designer made it. No extra steps, no cloud dependency, no learning curve. What PaperQuire Does Live preview — See your formatted document side-by-side as you type. What you see is what you'll get in the PDF. Professional templates — Choose from templates designed for technical docs, proposals, reports, and more. Every template supports custom branding: your logo, your colors, your fonts. Offline-first — Your documents never leave your machine. PaperQuire runs entirely on your desktop — macOS, Windows, and Linux. Plugin system — Extend PaperQuire with plugins for diagrams (Mermaid), math (KaTeX), syntax highlighting, and more. AI Assist — Bring your own API key and get writing suggestions, grammar fixes, and content generation right inside the editor. How It Works Open PaperQuire and start writing Markdown — or open an existing .md file Choose a template and customize your branding (logo, colors, fonts) Click Export to generate a polished PDF instantly Share your document with confidence The entire process takes seconds, not minutes. Free for Personal Use PaperQuire is free for personal use with no restrictions on the core features. The Pro plan adds advanced exports (DOCX, HTML), batch processing, and priority support for teams that need more. Get Started Download PaperQuire for your platform: macOS (Apple Silicon) Windows (x64) Linux (x86_64) Check out the documentation for a quick walkthrough, or just start writi