VARISDEVBY JOONASVARISDEV
ROBOTS DRINK
COFFEE.
Your coding harness.
A little more alive.
A standalone desktop home for Pi, background agents, and very busy little robots. Early-2000s game energy. Actual coding tools.
WINDOWS · macOS · LINUX
02 / NOT YOUR USUAL DAY AT THE OFFICE
A tiny world.
A lot going on.
Your parent sessions and background agents have a place to work. You get to see what they’re doing, dig into the details, and steer the next move.
Keep an eye on the details.
Explore token usage and the work happening behind the conversation.
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Assemble the crew.
Delegate work to background agents. Follow their progress and conversations without losing your own thread.
See what’s happening.
Live activity, tool calls, token usage, and changes. Open the details when you want them.
Make it look like you.
Pick a theme, bring your Pi plugins, and keep the workflow that works for you.
Built on Pi, with its models, tools, and extensions. Plugins that build terminal-specific interfaces may behave differently in the desktop.
03 / YOUR DESK IS READY
READY,
PLAYER
DEV?
Get the app. Pick your models.
Give the robots something to do.
STEP 1 · REQUIRED FIRST
Install Node.js first.
VarisDev needs Node.js 24 or newer. The official installer includes npm.
Download Node.jsFree for Windows, macOS & Linux. Already installed? Continue with step 2.
STEP 2 · INSTALL VARISDEV
After installing Node.js, open a new terminal and run the command for your platform.
curl -fsSL https://joonas.ninja/varisdev/install.sh | sh- 03Open a new terminal. Run
varisdev.On Windows, you can also use the Start menu. On macOS, open VarisDev from Applications in your home folder.
Already installed? Use Updates → Check for updates in the app, or run varisdev update.
04 / THE ORIGIN STORY
A PLUGIN
GREW
WINGS.
varis / Finnish / crow.
Introducing the coolest graphical coding harness I have ever seen or made; VarisDev!
This project started as a Pi-plugin (completely awesome tool by the way) when I wanted to make Pi look more like me. Then I just added more stuff that made sense to my workflow. Eventually I got bored of the terminal and looking at the lines of text and decided to enhance it further. Eventually it become something more than just a plugin. It became....VARISDEV! Now its a standalone desktop coding harness that is somehow reminiscent of early 2000s games.
"Varis" is finnish for "crow". So its CrowDev basically I guess. Crows are cool and smart!
MADE POSSIBLE BY THE VERY COOL PI