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A connected ecosystem of local-first developer tools. Relay is the flagship product — an AI-assisted software engineering workflow platform. Wayfinder is available now in RC form; the rest of the lineup is in active development or planned.

Flagship

Relay

Friction Lab's flagship product — a local-first AI-assisted software engineering workflow platform.

Relay In development

Local-first AI-assisted software engineering workflow platform. Relay organizes AI-assisted development from planning through task execution, engineering review, evidence capture, and decision tracking — coordinating Git-aware workflows across terminals, coding agents, and review conversations.

Relay is a native macOS app built around App Intents and reviewable automation. It is not a chatbot, and it is not just another coding agent — it is the coordination layer that keeps AI-assisted engineering work reviewable end to end.

SwiftUI macOS local-first App Intents Git-aware
Not yet public

Built with

Engineering highlights

  • Local-first architecture for persistent missions, tasks, evidence, and review history.
  • Deterministic observation pipeline combining Accessibility APIs, computer vision, confidence scoring, and evidence fusion.
  • App Intents and macOS Shortcuts for native automation.
  • Git-aware engineering workflows and structured review pipelines.
  • Modular SwiftUI application built around reusable services and application state.

Quality

Engineering quality

Relay's observation pipeline was built to interpret third-party application state without relying on cloud-based vision models — reproducible, privacy-preserving, and entirely local.

2,200+ automated regression tests covering persistence, workflow behavior, validation, and user interface logic.

Available now

Available now

Wayfinder is the first public release candidate from Friction Lab.

Wayfinder RC 1 available

A fast terminal navigator for developers. Wayfinder is a Rust terminal UI for interactive file and folder navigation, with shell-integrated cd, open, copy, and reveal actions.

Built for developers who live in the terminal, jump between projects often, and want a faster way to browse, open, copy, and return paths without leaving the keyboard.

Rust CLI terminal UI shell integration
Product page → Download RC 1 → View on GitHub →

In development

Active work

These tools are under active development and not yet available publicly.

Code Atlas In development

Local-first developer knowledge, built around your codebase. Code Atlas is a Markdown-native workspace for structured project memory — connecting notes, decisions, and source files through project-aware navigation and a reusable reference architecture.

Captures the context behind a codebase and generates AI-ready context packets. Still in active development and not yet public.

SwiftUI Markdown-native project memory
Not yet public
Space Buddy In development

Native macOS workspace automation. Space Buddy uses macOS Accessibility APIs to organize, name, jump to, and restore developer workspaces without relying on fragile visual order.

Built around Workspace Profiles, search-by-name, anchor apps, expected apps, running or missing workspace status, recent workspaces, and a fast jump-or-restore workflow.

SwiftUI macOS Accessibility APIs workspace automation
Not yet public
Cleanroom In development

A local cleanup utility for development artifacts. Cleanroom scans for build caches, derived data, and other local artifacts that quietly accumulate during development, with an audit-first workflow and no destructive defaults.

Public repository · in development. Initial cleanup targets include Xcode DerivedData, DeviceSupport, Archives, simulator artifacts, CMake build output, Python caches, .DS_Store, and AppleDouble files.

local cleanup dev artifacts audit-first
View on GitHub →

Planned

Planned tools

Focused CLI diagnostics that extend the same engineering philosophy into everyday debugging.

Faultline Planned

Structured error reporting for AI-assisted debugging. Faultline collects pasted or piped terminal output, trims noisy logs, and extracts the likely root cause into a concise summary for fast developer troubleshooting and failure analysis.

Part of Friction Lab's developer-productivity toolset. Not yet started.

CLI debugging planned
Env Doctor Planned

Development environment diagnostics. Env Doctor checks the active interpreter, virtual environment status, package availability, and .env configuration — surfacing dependency issues and interpreter mismatches in your developer tooling.

Part of Friction Lab's developer-productivity toolset. Not yet started.

CLI environment diagnostics planned