What is jarvis-desktop?

JARVIS Desktop is an AI powered overlay assistant for Windows 11 that sits on top of everything else on screen like a transparent heads up display. It was designed with XREAL AR glasses in mind, where the glasses act as an external monitor, but it works just as well on a regular screen. The overlay includes a searchable command palette, draggable widgets, streaming AI chat, voice control, a crypto dashboard, notifications, and support for saving and restoring different workspace layouts. The project describes itself as feature complete across its planned milestones. Users can open a fuzzy search command palette to launch any installed application or run built in commands, add and arrange widgets like a clock, weather, system monitor, notes, to do list, and a Pomodoro timer, and save named workspace snapshots such as Coding or Gaming that restore window positions and layout later. A voice mode lets someone speak commands like opening apps, setting timers, or summarizing the screen, with spoken replies through text to speech. The AI chat panel supports six different providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, and local options like Ollama and LM Studio, and can summarize whatever is on screen or explain whatever is copied to the clipboard. A separate companion program written in C# handles Windows specific features like reading text from images, showing what music is currently playing, and controlling other application windows, communicating with the main app over a background connection. API keys are encrypted on the device and never leave the main process. Running the project requires Node.js version 22 or newer and Windows 11, with standard commands to install dependencies, run a development version with live reloading, and build a production version. No separate C++ build tools are needed. Full architecture details are documented separately in the repository.