An AI-output curator for your desktop — discover, read, and re-enter the markdown docs scattered across your AI-driven projects.
You use Claude Code to draft a PRD. Codex to sketch a refactor plan. Cursor to generate an ADR. The next morning: "where did I save that file?"
AI-driven workflows produce a lot of markdown — scattered across dozens of project folders, never indexed anywhere. Markwand is a local, read-only desktop app that treats those .md files as a first-class knowledge stream: recent docs, tags, drift against source code, cross-project search.
- 🗂 Multi-project workspaces — register
~/develop/*(or any roots) and browse all projects from one sidebar - 📅 Recent 7 days panel — whatever Claude/Codex just wrote floats to the top
- 🏷 Frontmatter-native filters — filter by
tags,source(claude,codex,design,review),status - 🔍 In-doc search + ⌘K cross-project palette
- 🔗 Drift detection — docs reference code files; Markwand flags stale references with a badge
- 🖼 Images as first-class assets — PNG / JPG / SVG / GIF live alongside your docs
- 🌐 Remote SSH workspaces (beta, read-only) — browse docs on a remote server without leaving the app
- 🇰🇷 🇺🇸 i18n — Korean / English, auto-switched from OS locale
- 🔒 Local-only by default — no telemetry, no document contents leave your machine (SSH workspaces excluded by design)
- 📝 Read-only by design — Markwand never writes to your files; edit in your own editor
| If you use… | Markwand helps you… |
|---|---|
| Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / Cline / Aider | find & re-enter the docs they left behind across projects |
| Obsidian / Bear / IA Writer | complement them — those edit; Markwand indexes your AI output stream |
| A monorepo with scattered READMEs, ADRs, RFCs | get a live, filterable inventory of everything in *.md |
Markwand is not a markdown editor, not a cloud notes service, and not a knowledge graph tool. It is a fast local viewer optimized for the rhythm of AI-assisted development.
Markwand ships as a free ad-hoc signed ZIP while in beta. Pick the ZIP matching your Mac:
- Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) →
Markwand-*-arm64-free.zip - Intel →
Markwand-*-x64-free.zip
Latest: Releases
First launch may show a macOS security warning because the free build is not notarized. The normal path is unzip, drag Markwand.app to Applications, then right-click or Control-click → Open once. If macOS still refuses to open it, the guide includes the verified one-line xattr fallback.
Windows / Linux builds are not shipped yet — Markwand is macOS-first while the core workflow stabilizes.
# Prerequisites: Node 18+, pnpm 8+
pnpm install
# Dev server (HMR)
pnpm dev
# Production build
pnpm build
# Type check
pnpm typecheck
# Lint
pnpm lint
# Free ZIP build (macOS)
pnpm dist:mac| Layer | Stack |
|---|---|
| Shell | Electron 33 · electron-vite · electron-builder |
| UI | React 19 · TypeScript · Zustand · react-arborist |
| Markdown | react-markdown · remark-gfm · remark-breaks · rehype-highlight · rehype-sanitize · mermaid |
| Watching | chokidar · fast-glob · gray-matter · picomatch |
| Remote | ssh2 · ssh-config (read-only transport) |
| i18n | i18next · react-i18next |
| Storage | electron-store (local prefs only) |
Rendering goes through rehype-sanitize — untrusted document content never reaches the DOM as raw HTML.
- All scanning, parsing, and search happens locally on your machine.
- No analytics, no telemetry, no document content is transmitted to any server.
- The only network I/O Markwand ever performs is the SSH workspace feature you explicitly configure (read-only), and auto-update checks against GitHub Releases (when enabled).
Near-term:
- Signed + notarized macOS builds
- Windows build
- Deeper "Ask this project" search on top of the SSH-aware ⌘K text search backend
- Writable workspaces behind an explicit opt-in
Longer-term: VS Code / JetBrains companion, agent-friendly MCP integration, richer drift heuristics.
Issues, bug reports, and workflow suggestions are welcome — especially from users of other AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline, Aider, Continue, etc.). Please open a GitHub Issue describing:
- your AI-output workflow,
- what you tried to find,
- what Markwand got in the way of.
Pull requests: open an issue first so we can align on scope.
- Built by @givepro91 with heavy pair-programming against Claude Code.
- Icon & cover art: see
build/anddocs/launch/.
MIT © 2026 Spacewalk — free for personal and commercial use, attribution appreciated.