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Problem

The README opened with thirteen for-the-badge badges and then spent most of its length on
repository structure. The desktop app, which is the easiest way for a new user to try Pythinker,
was not mentioned anywhere outside a single package table row.

What changed

  • Lead with the desktop app: download link, what it does, where its data lives, and platform notes.
  • Expand the agent capabilities into readable sections (codebase work, subagents, tool approvals,
    MCP and skills and plugins, model choice, video input).
  • Cut the badge row from 13 for-the-badge badges to 7 flat-square ones: release, desktop
    downloads, license, macOS, Windows, Node.js, visitors.
  • Use the desktop screenshot as the hero image (docs/media/desktop-ui.webp, 24 KB, resized with
    ffmpeg and encoded with cwebp). The terminal recording moves down to the terminal section.
  • Point every download link and both platform badges at https://code.pythinker.com/.
  • Drop the duplicated project-layout tree and the extensibility table, and trim the closing blocks.

Verified: the shields and komarev badge URLs return SVG with the expected labels and colors,
pnpm dev:desktop exists, the docs routes resolve, and the file has no em or en dashes.

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  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
  • I have linked a related issue, or explained the problem above.
  • I have added tests that prove my feature works. (Documentation only.)
  • Ran gen-changesets skill, or this PR needs no changeset. (No release artifact changes.)
  • Ran gen-docs skill, or this PR needs no doc update.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Reorganized the README around the desktop app experience.
    • Added download guidance, getting-started instructions, interaction guides, and platform limitations.
    • Documented local runtime behavior, shared CLI data, authentication, terminal installation, and editor integration.
    • Updated development guidance for desktop, CLI, web, engine, provider, execution, server, and SDK packages.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The README now presents the desktop app first, documents terminal and ACP editor usage, describes supported capabilities, updates development instructions, and condenses project and contribution links.

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README guide

Layer / File(s) Summary
Desktop positioning and capabilities
README.md
The README adds desktop download guidance, local runtime details, platform information, update settings, and capability descriptions.
Terminal and editor usage
README.md
The README adds terminal installation, authentication, task examples, Windows Git Bash setup, ACP editor guidance, and documentation links.
Development and project guidance
README.md
The README updates package and command documentation and condenses contribution, license, and project links.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 14ac4

The README rewrite leaves a heading-hierarchy lint error at line 5, so the documentation change needs a small cleanup or explicit owner follow-up before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the docs prefix, imperative mood, and is 71 characters long while accurately describing the README rewrite.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the template, explains the problem and changes, and completes the relevant checklist items for documentation-only work.
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In `@apps/pythinker-web/src/components/UpdateToast.vue`:
- Around line 15-16: Move the SKIP_KEY constant declaration before the skipped
ref initialization in UpdateToast so readSkipped() can safely access it during
setup. Preserve the existing readSkipped() behavior and constant value.

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- Line 11: Update the Node.js badge in the README to advertise Node.js 26.4+,
matching the minimum version documented elsewhere in the file; leave the
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- Line 5: Update the new introduction heading from h3 to h2 so it satisfies the
MD001 heading hierarchy requirement, unless an appropriate missing h2 parent is
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Lead with the desktop download, expand the agent capability sections, and cut
the README to the essentials. Replace the heavy for-the-badge row with a flat
row: release, desktop downloads, license, macOS/Windows, Node.js, visitors.
Use the desktop screenshot as the hero image and point every download link at
code.pythinker.com.
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Addressed in 14ac4f4 (CodeRabbit review).

The branch was cut from feat/desktop-update-toast by mistake, so the update-toast commit showed up in the diff. It is now rebased onto main and this PR is README-only: no Vue components, no changeset, no tests.

  • Node.js badge now reads 26.4+, matching the install table and the development section.
  • The prompt example fence now declares text.
  • MD001 on the tagline stays as h3 on purpose; rationale is on the thread.
  • The critical merge-risk finding belongs to the update-toast commit and is no longer part of this PR. It is also milder than reported: the ReferenceError is raised inside the try block of readSkipped() and swallowed by its catch, so the component mounts and only loses persisted skips.
  • Docstring coverage: not applicable to a documentation-only change.

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