What Kanade is
Kanade is a private Windows workstation for Claude Code. It gives one local app to provider lanes, transcripts, tools, memory, missions, Forge runs, personas, and Discord asks. The app runs on the operator’s machine; the public web surfaces are docs, release notes, and the maintainer update channel.
Kanade is not a hosted dashboard. It does not create provider accounts, proxy every turn through a cloud service, or collect product telemetry. The daemon tails local hook JSONL, stores local SQLite state, reads configured local roots, and serves the desktop shell over loopback.
What it routes
Section titled “What it routes”- Provider lanes: Claude Code, DeepSeek, Gemini, Codex, and compatible direct-provider accounts.
- Claude Code work: chat, terminal, MCP, permission modes, skills, file context, transcript history, and session resume when the provider supports it.
- Hermes memory: approved facts, project-core instructions, recall entries, archival entries, and pending proposals.
- Missions: local goal records that can launch bounded Forge work.
- Discord: signed, allowlisted
/status,/ask, and/recallrequests through a self-hosted bridge.
What it does not promise
Section titled “What it does not promise”Kanade does not turn private alpha state into public distribution. The Windows installer and update channel exist for maintainer verification. Public readers can inspect the operating model and issue posture here, but there is no public access flow.
The proof boundary matters. Source work, installed desktop work, live docs, and the updater channel are tracked separately because each target can fail in a different way. Kanade only calls a target shipped after that target is verified.