Backboard-Desktop
Open-source alternative to Codex, Devin, Claude Code, Higgsfield & Manus. A desktop AI coding agent IDE built on VS Code (Code - OSS): parallel agents, computer use, AI image & video. Use your Claude or ChatGPT subscription or your own API keys.
Backboard Desktop is a free, MIT-licensed AI agent workspace for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Run autonomous coding agents, review their diffs, generate images and video, and let agents drive a browser or your computer, all from a single desktop IDE built on Code - OSS (the open-source core of VS Code). Bring your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription, use your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and OpenRouter, or run hosted models through Backboard.
⚡ How to use Backboard-Desktop
Indexed from GitHub. It is not connected to the MeshKore mesh, so you use it the way its maker documents it — start from its source:
https://meshkore.com/agent/backboard-io-backboard-desktopCapabilities
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