HashCortx is a desktop AI workspace that runs on your own machine. Chat with eleven providers or your own local models, run an autonomous coding agent, read your own documents, analyse financial statements, design 3D parts, and put a team of agents on one brief. No backend, no account, no telemetry. Free and MIT-licensed.
This release runs on Windows. Until now the code compiled and passed its tests on Windows but nobody had launched it. It has now been built, installed and used on a Windows 10 machine, and this release carries the installer from that build.
What else is in 2.6.0
112 commits since v2.5.0. The largest part of it is 3D Forge, which went from a demo to something that produces a file a printer or a CAD program will accept:
- Models have a real size, in millimetres, written into every file they export.
- Solid geometry. Parts are fused into one solid, a design can cut a hole through it, and a model can be hollowed to a real wall thickness.
- Our own STL, OBJ, 3MF and STEP writers, rather than relying on a library to describe what the numbers mean. Writing them ourselves uncovered that every mirrored part had been exported inside out.
- A printability report, in millimetres, saying whether the thing could actually be made.
- A build order you can rearrange, part dimensions you can type, and holes you can cut by hand.
- A design can do arithmetic, so a part that repeats is written once instead of twenty-four times.
Elsewhere:
- A model that fails no longer falls back to a worse one than it should. Candidates were ranked by family name before variant, so a failover reached for the small cheap model ahead of a genuinely large one.
- Money is read correctly. A bracketed debit was being counted as money coming in.
- Generated dates were a day early everywhere east of Greenwich.
- Every export writes a file. Seventeen save buttons and the Python sandbox's own output wrote nothing at all, silently.
The full list, including what is still open, is in the changelog.
Windows
Download HashCortx_2.6.0_x64_no-embeddings.exe below and run it. There is nothing to install — it is the program itself, not an installer.
It reports version 2.5.0 in its title bar, and that is not a mistake in the download. It was compiled a few hours before the version was bumped to 2.6.0. Every change between the code it was built from and this release is documentation: no source file, no dependency and no lockfile entry differs. It is the 2.6.0 program with the previous number written on it, and the next Windows build will say 2.6.0.
This is the build made without local embeddings, and that is deliberate. The standard build links a prebuilt ONNX Runtime compiled for processors with AVX2 — Intel from 2013, AMD from 2015 — and it is linked in such a way that its start-up code runs before the app's own. On an older processor the app cannot start at all: no window, no error, nothing on screen. The build published here has none of that code in it and starts on any 64-bit PC.
What you give up is search by meaning: the knowledge base matches on keywords instead, and the app reports that it is doing so rather than quietly returning weaker results. Everything else — the chat, the coding agent, the swarm, the file work, 3D Forge — is the same app.
For search by meaning on a 2013-or-newer processor, build the full version yourself. It is three commands once Node and Rust are installed, and the steps are in the README.
Windows will show a blue "Windows protected your PC" box. That happens for any program without a paid signing certificate. Click More info, then Run anyway. If the window opens white and empty, install the WebView2 runtime.
macOS
Download HashCortx_2.6.0_aarch64.dmg, open it, and drag HashCortx to Applications. Apple Silicon, macOS 10.15 or newer.
macOS will refuse it the first time. The app is not signed by Apple and not notarised, because that needs a paid developer account, and macOS treats everything unsigned the same way. It is not damaged. Open Terminal and run this once:
xattr -cr /Applications/HashCortx.app
Then open it normally. You never have to do this again.
On an Intel Mac or on Linux, build from source — the steps are in the README.
Check the download is the one that was published
Optional, and worth doing if you care where your software came from. Run this in the folder you downloaded to; if it matches, your copy is byte-for-byte the file uploaded here.
macOS:
shasum -a 256 HashCortx_2.6.0_aarch64.dmg
2687649da776d0263926f95dbc4677dbf09b60c4a72027bd1a8c6c98500f7be6
Windows (PowerShell):
Get-FileHash HashCortx_2.6.0_x64_no-embeddings.exe -Algorithm SHA256
6FE969C929BD237C41A2C2ACE30D4F66894FF5202295179CC9C78A4D4F77874E