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Coalesce Desktop
This feature is currently available in a private preview and may not be accessible to all customers.
Coalesce Desktop is the Coalesce build experience you know from the web app, running on your computer and pointed at a local workspace folder. It enables local AI development: your pipeline lives as files your AI agent can work on, and Desktop turns those files into the visual, interactive Coalesce interface.
Ask your agent to add a source node, and the node appears in your graph as the agent writes the file. Ask it to restructure a pipeline, and you watch the DAG reshape itself. You review AI-driven work the way you already build in Coalesce. You inspect columns, open the SQL, and run nodes in a visual interface, rather than reading YAML in a code editor. Everything works in both directions: create, edit, and run nodes in the app exactly as you would in the web app, and the files on disk update to match.
Differences From the Web App
| Coalesce Desktop: on your machine | Web app: in your browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Your workspace | A folder you control | Managed for you |
| Building | The visual build experience, over local files | The same experience |
| AI assistance | Your choice of agent and LLM | Coalesce Copilot |
| Warehouse connection | Direct from your machine | Routed through Coalesce |
| Warehouse credentials | Your local coa config file | Saved to your account |
| Plan and deploy | The coa CLI | The deploy interface |
Because connections are direct, your queries, results, and warehouse secrets never pass through Coalesce servers; you may need to adjust your warehouse's network policy—for example, Snowflake network policies—to allow connections from developer machines. And because plans and deploys run through the CLI, your agent can run, inspect, and debug them for you.
Install
- macOS
- Windows
Download Coalesce Desktop for macOS, open the disk image, and drag Coalesce Desktop to Applications.
Download Coalesce Desktop for Windows and run the installer.
Desktop bundles Node.js and the coa CLI, so there's nothing else to install. The app runs this bundled build itself, kept off your PATH so it never collides with a standalone coa. Current builds also publish ~/.coalesce/desktop/agent.json so your agent can discover and run it.
Usage
- Complete the Local Development Setup Guide so a workspace exists on disk.
- Launch Coalesce Desktop and open your workspace folder. Desktop shows one workspace at a time; you can switch between workspace folders.
- Build, by hand or with your agent. The app updates as files change.