Reasoning Desktop

The desktop experience of CueCrux is the Crux Daemon itself: one free binary that runs on your own machine, CPU-only, with no account required. It is not a thin client to a cloud service. Memory, retrieval, and receipts all run locally, on an append-only spine that lives on your disk, and the daemon signs a CROWN receipt for every state mutation whether or not you ever connect it to anything.

The operator console at localhost:14800 is the working surface: a canvas board for spatial organisation, a relation graph over what the store knows, a kanban view of ExecPlans and the live work board, and session management with checkpoints and cross-session handoffs. Agents connect through 100+ MCP tools, and every retrieval call takes a hard token budget that the daemon trims to fit.

Retrieval quality does not depend on a hosted service. The local lanes combine BM25-class lexical search with graph fusion, and dense retrieval is bring-your-own-embedder: point the daemon at Ollama, vLLM, TEI, llama.cpp, or LiteLLM and the dense lane runs locally too. The local dense lane is never metered. Richer lanes (entity, event, navigational) are available from hosted CoreCrux when wanted, not required.

Offline is a first-class condition, not degraded mode. Receipts verify without a network: corecruxctl verify-store checks the chain locally, exports verify against their signatures, and tamper-rejection is a release-blocking CI gate. Work travels as .cruxpack bundles, and scoped forget with dry-run handles erasure obligations on your own hardware. The daemon is free forever; that is the pricing page's first line, not a trial.