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The first release: a self-hosted LaTeX workspace with an AI assistant.

Editor and PDF

  • LaTeX editor with tabs, autosave and syntax highlighting.
  • Compilation with Tectonic, which fetches the packages a document needs; errors and warnings listed with file and line, each with Fix with AI.
  • Named fontspec families (\setmainfont{Open Sans}) work without changing the document: Refract uses the project's own font files, the TeX bundle's Latin Modern and TeX Gyre, or downloads the family from Google Fonts (REFRACT_FONT_DOWNLOADS=0 turns downloads off). By Lorena Jimenez in #1.
  • PDF preview with SyncTeX in both directions (⌘J, and ⌘-click in the PDF), and a right-click menu in the PDF.
  • Command palette (⌘K) and a shortcut overlay.
  • English and Spanish interface, light and dark themes, installable as an app from the browser.
  • Smooth transitions between pages, without reloads.

Assistant

  • An agent that reads, searches, edits and compiles the project in a separate git worktree, and hands back its changes as a review: accept or reject all at once or file by file.
  • Shows the model's reasoning when the model provides it; each chat remembers its model and reasoning level.
  • Quick actions on a selection (improve, shorten, fix grammar, table, explain, free instruction) shown as inline word diffs.

References

  • Finds published papers (OpenAlex) and arXiv preprints that support a passage, and places \cite as a change to review.
  • Bibliography entries always come from the publisher's or arXiv's metadata.

Projects, history and sync

  • Import Prism exports (.zip) and folders; export any project as a .zip.
  • Every project is a git repository: history with diffs, and restoring a file or the whole project.
  • Push and pull to any https git remote, or to GitHub repositories picked or created from Refract; optional auto-push.

AI models

  • Your ChatGPT plan through "Sign in with ChatGPT" (refract login).
  • API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI and Groq; local models through Ollama; any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
  • One model picker for all of them, grouped by provider, with search and the reasoning levels each model supports.

Accounts and security

  • Several users, each with their own projects, chats and connections.
  • Sign-in through Cloudflare Access, Refract's own sign-in page (passwords, and optionally OpenID Connect), or no sign-in on a private network.
  • refract users to add, rename, sign out, unlock and remove accounts.
  • Sign-in attempts limited per account and per address; credentials and API keys encrypted at rest; a strict Content-Security-Policy.

Distribution

  • refract binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows (amd64 and arm64).
  • A Docker image for amd64 and arm64 on GitHub Container Registry, with Tectonic and SyncTeX included.
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