Whitepaper: Nanocoder Desktop (Local-First Agent Workspace)

[puri-adityakumar]

Summary

This PR introduces the draft whitepaper for Nanocoder Desktop, proposing a local-first desktop workspace around Nanocoder's existing agent.

Nanocoder's terminal is effective for an active coding turn, but it does not provide one persistent place to resume project chats, inspect files, review real Git changes, run the project, and preview the result. This whitepaper outlines a focused desktop loop that reuses Nanocoder rather than adding another agent or becoming a full IDE.

Key Concepts Proposed

• Durable Chats: Resume project conversations with persisted thread state and streamed agent activity.
• File and Git Review: Treat the filesystem and Git as authoritative, then send real observations back to the same chat.
• Terminal Workflows: Run, test, and inspect the local project from an integrated terminal.
• Agent-Controlled Browser: Give the agent a dedicated, isolated browser surface with narrowly scoped, auditable actions.
• Bounded Subagents: Keep parent and child agent runs visible and cancellable without unbounded orchestration.