Wayfinder: a local-first desktop map for AI collaboration

[StayCurious-Xuan]

Hi Tauri community — I built Wayfinder, an open-source, local-first desktop
app that turns work with AI into a visual history of how a project reached its
result.

Instead of treating each AI conversation as disposable, Wayfinder keeps goals,
alternative attempts, failures, decisions, validation, and artifacts connected
in project-level voyages. The product is designed for AI collaboration across
research, writing, design, coding, and other project work. Codex and Claude Code
are the current early-access collectors, not the boundary of the product.

The desktop architecture uses:

• Tauri 2 and Rust for the native shell and filesystem watcher
• a bundled Node SEA sidecar for local transcript collection
• D3 and native SVG for the interactive voyage map
• event-driven collection from local Codex and Claude Code JSONL files
• responsive map and evidence inspection down to 320px

Version 0.3.17 is available for Apple Silicon, Intel macOS, and Windows x64.
The complete collaboration history stays on the user's computer.

Website: https://wayfinder-ai.pages.dev

Source: https://github.com/StayCurious-Xuan/wayfinder

Release: https://github.com/StayCurious-Xuan/wayfinder/releases/tag/alpha-v0.3.17

I would especially value feedback on the Node SEA sidecar pattern and the
interaction model for navigating large SVG voyage maps in WebView environments.