v0.1.0
Pre-release
Open Room 0.1.0
First release. Open Room is a desktop app for running multiple named Claude Code agents at
once — each with its own model, tools, voice and persistent role — addressed by typing,
push-to-talk, or an opt-in wake word ("hey Atlas…"). Agents work concurrently, report back
by native notification or text-to-speech, and their conversations persist and resume across
launches.
Before you download: Open Room ships no credentials and runs no cloud of its own. Every
agent runs through the Claude Code login already on your machine, and everything an agent
does bills your own Claude Code account — exactly as if you had typed it into the CLI
yourself. You need Claude Code (https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code) installed and signed
in (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code, then claude to sign in). Everything is local:
no telemetry, no analytics, no cloud speech — speech recognition and synthesis run on your
machine.
Installing
- Windows: run open-room-0.1.0-setup.exe.
- macOS: open open-room-0.1.0.dmg and drag Open Room to Applications.
The builds are not code-signed, so both operating systems will object once:
- Windows: SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
- macOS: Gatekeeper says the app "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be
verified". Right-click the app and choose Open, then Open again in the dialog — or run
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Open Room.app".
Nothing is bundled beyond the app: no voices, no speech models. System text-to-speech works
immediately; anything neural (Whisper for voice input, Kokoro voices) downloads on demand,
with size and licence shown before you agree. Voice input ships off; the wake word is a
second, separate opt-in.
The DMG is built and configured (entitlements, microphone usage description) but no one has
ever launched Open Room on a Mac. If you try it, please open an issue
(https://github.com/TheLinc/open-room/issues) with what happened — even "it does not start"
is genuinely useful, and "it works" doubly so. The Windows build has been installed,
launched and exercised end to end.
Known gaps in 0.1.0
- Hold-to-talk does not exist yet — voice capture is toggle-to-talk (press to start, press
again or go silent to send, Esc to discard). - Builds are unsigned on both platforms.
- The always-on listening CPU figure (~8% of one core) was measured on a desktop, not the
older laptop it was budgeted for.
The full list, including what is deferred by design, is in CONTRIBUTING.md
(https://github.com/TheLinc/open-room/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).