Install without touching a terminal
Yomi now ships as a Desktop Extension. Download the bundle for your machine below, drag it into Claude Desktop's Settings → Extensions, click Install. Then say "log in to LINE" and enter your phone number in the form.
No terminal. No Node.js install (Claude Desktop ships its own runtime). No hand-edited claude_desktop_config.json.
| Machine | File |
|---|---|
| Windows (Intel/AMD) | yomi-win32-x64.mcpb |
| Mac (Apple Silicon) | yomi-darwin-arm64.mcpb |
| Linux (x64) | yomi-linux-x64.mcpb |
Why this matters on Windows
Two things made Yomi effectively uninstallable for a Windows user who does not live in a terminal:
- Cowork will not type into your terminal. That is a deliberate guardrail, not a bug — its shell runs in a throwaway VM, and the isolation exists precisely to keep it out of your machine. It cannot install Yomi for you, and no amount of explaining will change that.
- Claude Desktop's MSIX packaging reads a different config file than the one "Edit Config" opens (claude-code#26073, still open), so a correct config is silently ignored — no error, no log, Yomi just never appears.
The bundle sidesteps both. Once installed, Cowork's local sessions can use Yomi like any other tool.
Verification
Each bundle is built on its target OS and started there — a real MCP initialize handshake, on Windows, macOS and Linux. "It packed" is not evidence that it runs.
Semantic search works out of the bundle: the pruned onnxruntime embeds Chinese text to 512-dim vectors. The embedding model (~90MB) is downloaded on first semantic search, as before.
Also in this release
npm versionno longer strips the trailing newline fromversion.ts(every bump was landing a lint failure onmain)- the bundle build invokes
tscdirectly instead of throughnpx, which on Windows silently fetched an unrelated squatter package namedtscfrom the registry