# askimo

> Open-source AI desktop app with built-in knowledge base, MCP support, and multi-provider models like OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, and Ollama.

- **URL**: https://www.freshcrate.ai/projects/askimo
- **Author**: haiphucnguyen
- **Category**: MCP Servers
- **Latest version**: `main@2026-05-24` (2026-05-24)
- **License**: AGPL-3.0
- **Source**: https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo
- **Homepage**: https://askimo.chat
- **Language**: Kotlin
- **GitHub**: 90 stars, 10 forks
- **Registry**: github
- **Tags**: `ai-assistant`, `artificial-intelligence`, `chatgpt`, `desktop-app`, `gemini`, `gemini-client`, `grok`, `kotlin`, `langchain4j`, `model-context-protocol`

## Description

Open-source AI desktop app with built-in knowledge base, MCP support, and multi-provider models like OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, and Ollama.

## Recent releases

| Version | Date | Urgency | Changes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `main@2026-05-24` | 2026-05-24 | High | Latest activity on main branch |
| `v1.4.2` | 2026-05-17 | High | ---  ### Summary  The release focuses  on personalize user interaction with **User memory persistence** and **step output history reconstruction** are introduced to maintain context between sessions, reducing the need for repeated prompts.   ## What's Changed  - **Added** persistent storage for *user memory* across sessions, keeping user context intact between visits ([#385](https://github.com/askimo-ai/askimo/pull/385)). - **Added** step output history persistence and reconstruction fo |
| `v1.4.0` | 2026-05-12 | High | ### Summary  This release introduces comprehensive **AI skills management**, allowing users to create, execute, and automate custom workflows seamlessly. Also it include several UI improvements  ## What's Changed  * Added **default directives** to seed automatically on startup, ensuring a consistent and ready-to-use environment for all users ([#368](https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/pull/368)) * Added **terminal analytics and enriched telemetry** to provide deeper insights into appl |
| `v1.3.9` | 2026-05-06 | High | ### Summary  This release introduces several usability improvements across projects, discovery, navigation, and desktop list interactions. It adds new discovery and MCP settings navigation paths, improves project management with pinned projects and safer chat deletion, and enhances directive rendering with helpful learn-more links. The release also includes analytics improvements and internal cleanup to simplify shared shell components and remove redundant project files.  ## What's Changed |
| `v1.3.8` | 2026-05-02 | High | ### Summary    This release focuses on enhancing the update‑checker component to provide a smoother user experience.   ## What's Changed    - Improved **update checker** to provide more reliable update detection, a refreshed UI, and streamlined preference handling ([#356](https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/pull/356))   **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/compare/v1.3.7...v1.3.8 |
| `v1.3.6` | 2026-04-28 | High | ### Summary  This release enhances the user experience by refining how Markdown is rendered and searched, while expanding AI model configurability.  It simplified model settings by removing unnecessary sampling temperature, and added **universal export** capabilities for content.    ## What's Changed  - Added **streaming code block rendering** to provide smoother, real‑time display of code snippets. ([#341](https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/pull/341)) - Fixed search to operate again |
| `v1.3.4` | 2026-04-23 | High | ### Summary  This release focuses strengthens the **RAG indexing pipeline** and refines chat/server configuration handling to improve maintainability and operational consistency.  ## What's Changed  - Added support for using **tools directly within plan execution steps**, making automated plans more capable and flexible during runtime. ([#330](https://github.com/haiphucnguyen/askimo/pull/330)) - Improved **plan synchronization** and added support for **ephemeral MCP servers**, helping pla |
| `v1.3.3` | 2026-04-20 | High | ### Summary  This release focuses on improving overall code quality and maintainability across the codebase. It introduces **Detekt** for static analysis and includes a broad set of related fixes to align the project with stronger Kotlin quality standards. These updates help improve consistency, reduce potential issues, and support a healthier development workflow.  ## What's Changed  - Integrated **Detekt** into the build process and applied project-wide **static analysis** fixes to impro |
| `v1.3.2` | 2026-04-19 | High | **Summary**  This release focuses on enhancing the chat experience and the core services that power it. We centralize the Model Context Protocol services to streamline future development, introduce a richer chat and settings interface, and revamp the chat component APIs for more robust state management. These changes collectively make the platform more maintainable, user‑friendly, and ready for upcoming features.    ## What's Changed  - Refactored **Model Context Protocol services** to cen |
| `v1.3.1` | 2026-04-16 | High | ### Summary  This release enhances collaboration and usability by adding a **File Viewer Pane** for easier file navigation and preferences. Files can now be attached directly from the project side panel thanks to **Chat Attachments**. UI notifications and error colors have been refined for clearer communication, while the underlying **RAG indexing logic** has been refactored and now supports cancellation, improving performance and reliability.  ## What's Changed  - Added **File Viewer Pane |

## Dependency audit

- **Score**: 100/100
- **Total deps**: 0
- **Resolved**: 0
- **Unresolved**: 0
- **License conflicts**: 0
- **Warnings**: 0
- **Scanned**: 2026-05-25

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