Quire 0.1.0-alpha.2

Second alpha. Fixes alpha.1, which crashed on launch (Cannot find module 'electron-updater'): the updater and its dependencies now ship inside the app. Otherwise the same first alpha: a quiet place to read everything you subscribe to — blogs, newsletters, papers, PDFs — with an agent that reads alongside you and never cites what it did not open.

macOS only. Download the .dmg for your Mac (arm64 for Apple silicon, x64 for Intel) and drag Quire to Applications.

First launch. The alpha is signed with a development certificate but not notarized, so macOS refuses it once: right-click Quire → Open → Open again, or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Or in Terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Quire.app. After that it opens normally, and later alphas install in place from Settings › About.

The agent needs the Codex CLI installed and signed in (codex login); everything else works without it.

Screenshots

What's in it

• One reading surface for web pages, Markdown, PDFs; arXiv papers as HTML and PDF, switchable with v.
• Feeds and arXiv categories; an Inbox that asks one question per item: read (↵), queue (q), keep (k), let go (e).
• Highlights and notes on pages and PDFs; citations and BibTeX; Zotero-style metadata.
• The agent (⌘J): explain, verify, related, summarise, synthesise across the library, rebuild a garbled page from the saved original. Citations are limited to what it actually retrieved in that turn.
• Local-first: everything, images included, stays on your Mac.

Please report sites that extract badly — they go straight into the evaluation set.