Routine

Routine is a desktop app that turns natural-language prompts into runnable, visual automation flows. Describe what you want ("daily digest of GitHub trending repos to my team's email"), and Routine generates a node-based flow you can inspect, edit on a canvas, refine via chat, and execute step by step.

Built as an Electron + React app with electron-vite, packaged with electron-builder.

Project structure

• src/main/ — Electron main process
• src/preload/ — preload bridge
• src/renderer/ — React UI (sidebar, chat thread, flow canvas, node inspector, tweaks panel)
• packages/core/ — @flow-build/core, Cursor SDK wrapper (foundation for in-app agent integration)
• packages/cli/ — @flow-build/cli, standalone CLI exercising the core wrapper

The packages currently power a standalone CLI. Integrating them into the Electron app is a future iteration.

Requirements

• Node.js 20+
• pnpm (managed via Corepack — corepack enable pnpm)

Install

pnpm install

Run

pnpm dev        # start the app in development mode (HMR)
pnpm start      # preview a production build

Build

pnpm run build           # compile main, preload, and renderer bundles
pnpm run build:packages  # build the @flow-build/* workspace packages
pnpm run build:unpack    # build an unpacked app directory (no installer)
pnpm run build:mac       # build a macOS distributable
pnpm run build:win       # build a Windows distributable
pnpm run build:linux     # build a Linux distributable

Other scripts

pnpm test         # run all package test suites
pnpm typecheck    # typecheck app + packages
pnpm icons        # regenerate app icons from resources/icon.svg

Cursor SDK harness (CLI)

The @flow-build/cli package wraps the Cursor SDK and streams agent output with tool-call indicators. Spec and implementation plan live under docs/superpowers/; manual smoke checks live in docs/smoke.md.