Coder's Bible Desktop v2.1

Sovereign knowledge engine. Zero AI. Zero network. Pure signal.

The Coder's Bible is a fully offline developer knowledge base containing 67,213 curated code fragments across 25 domains — from Python and Rust to Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, and systemd. This repository contains the Tauri desktop app and PWA assets. The companion CLI lives at coders-bible-cli; the harvest pipeline + web frontend at the-coders-bible.

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Download

Pre-built installers for every release are on the releases page:

Platform	Asset
Windows	Coder.s.Bible_2.1.0_x64_en-US.msi
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Coder.s.Bible_2.1.0_aarch64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	Coder.s.Bible_2.1.0_x64.dmg
Debian / Ubuntu	Coder.s.Bible_2.1.0_amd64.deb
Fedora / RHEL	Coder.s.Bible-2.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Other Linux	Coder.s.Bible_2.1.0_amd64.AppImage

Windows: the binary is currently unsigned (no code-signing cert yet). Click "More info → Run anyway" if SmartScreen flags it.

macOS: the .dmg is ad-hoc signed. Right-click the app the first time you launch it → "Open" to bypass Gatekeeper.

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Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Coder's Bible Ecosystem v2.1                                │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Tauri Desktop  │  PWA  │  VS Code Extension  │  CLI        │
│     (Rust)      │ (Web) │      (Node.js)      │  (Rust)     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│           Shared: bible_engine.rs (Rust)                    │
│           Shared: coders_bible.db (SQLite + FTS5)           │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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Quick Start

CLI (Ready Now)

cd coders-bible-cli
cargo build --release
./target/release/coders-bible-cli "docker compose" --limit 5
./target/release/coders-bible-cli analyze "chmod +x deploy.sh"

Desktop App

cd src-tauri
cargo tauri dev      # dev mode
cargo tauri build    # release binaries

PWA

Serve src/ with any static file server:

cd src
python3 -m http.server 8080

Then open http://localhost:8080 and install via browser prompt.

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Features

Feature	Desktop	PWA	VS Code	CLI
FTS5 Search	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Analyze Snippet	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Language Detection	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Safety Assessment	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Semantic Decomposition	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Domain Filtering	✅	✅*	✅	✅
Offline-First	✅	✅	✅	✅
Global Hotkey (Ctrl+Shift+Space)	✅	—	✅	—
System Tray	✅	—	—	—
Auto-Update	✅	—	—	—

* PWA requires a running backend or uses the API if hosted.

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Tech Stack

• Backend Engine: Rust + rusqlite (bundled-full, FTS5 enabled)
• Desktop Shell: Tauri v2 (WebKit/WebView2)
• Frontend: Vanilla HTML5/CSS3/JS (no build step)
• Database: SQLite 3 with FTS5 virtual table
• CLI: Single Rust binary, ~3 MB

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Deterministic Build

The CLI builds deterministically via GitHub Actions:

# .github/workflows/cli.yml
# Matrix: ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest
# Artifacts: cb-linux-x64, cb-macos-x64, cb-windows-x64.exe
# Checksums: SHA-256

The Tauri desktop app builds via:

# .github/workflows/release.yml
# Matrix: ubuntu-22.04, macos-latest (aarch64 + x86_64), windows-latest
# Targets: .deb, .rpm, .AppImage, .dmg, .msi

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Privacy

• Zero telemetry — no analytics, no crash reporters, no phoning home
• Zero network — all search and analysis happens locally on your machine
• Zero AI — deterministic regex-based language detection, no LLM calls
• Database stays in your app data directory; never uploaded

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License

MIT — VrtxOmega