Hey friends!

Quick update on InterBrain development. This one is a big structural shift — the InterBrain now ships as a proper desktop app, and Windows support is finally complete.

Until now, getting InterBrain set up meant running an install script in your terminal — fine for the technically inclined, rough for everyone else. That whole experience has been replaced.

InterBrain now installs as a regular desktop application available here: https://github.com/ProjectLiminality/InterBrain/releases/latest
 
You download it, double-click, and a friendly setup screen walks you through everything: checking for prerequisites, installing what's missing, connecting your GitHub account, and dropping the plugin into an Obsidian vault. No terminal, no copy-pasting commands.

The app itself lives quietly in your system tray. Behind it runs a small background daemon — the piece that handles all the git plumbing, peer resolution, and collaboration transport — plus a dashboard for managing your vaults and settings. The Obsidian plugin talks to the daemon over a local connection; together they form the complete InterBrain.

This is the foundation everything else now sits on. It also means updates can flow much more smoothly from here on.

The biggest change this release is one most users will never see directly — but it's what made everything above possible.

Earlier versions leaned on Radicle, a peer-to-peer protocol, for collaboration. In principle it fit the vision; in practice, at this early stage of the project, it was simply more complexity than InterBrain needs right now — and, just as importantly, it was the thing blocking true cross-platform support.

So I made a pragmatic call: collaboration now runs on GitHub. InterBrain was already using GitHub for publishing DreamSongs — now it uses it for everything. It's the simpler, more solid foundation for where the project is today.

To be clear about what this does and doesn't change: nothing about the vision shifts. The social resonance filter, the coherence beacon, the way DreamNodes relate and propagate between people — all of that is intact, and it's still implemented faithfully, exactly as intended. GitHub is just the infrastructure underneath it now. From where you sit as a user, it's invisible.

And the payoff is the part that matters: with this foundation in place, Windows is now fully supported. The whole flow — install, setup, creating DreamNodes, weaving DreamSongs, sharing changes, receiving a collaborator's update and pulling it into your own version — has been validated end-to-end across Mac and Windows, on real machines with real GitHub accounts.

A few things on the near horizon:

- Activity feed — a dashboard view that scans all your DreamNodes across all vaults and surfaces what your peers have shared, in one place.
- Private-by-default DreamNodes — GitHub remotes are public for now; the next step is private repos with explicit collaborator invites.
- Linux support validation — the build already produces Linux artifacts; they need the same end-to-end shakedown the other two platforms just got.

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