Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code
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Polypore is an open-source, agentic desktop IDE built on Tauri 2 and React 18, designed from the ground up around AI agents as primary actors — not as an afterthought. It features a fully dockable panel system, a built-in MCP server giving agents direct IDE control via 22+ tools, a secret broker using the OS keyring, and an extensible SDK for third-party plugins.
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