Redrob Office

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Redrob Office is a desktop office suite with Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF, Markdown and Hangul editors in one window. Every editor carries an AI panel that edits the open document rather than describing how to edit it. It runs on Windows and Linux, is a port of GenOffice under the Apache License 2.0, and ships in English and Korean.

What it does

• Docs: write, format and review .docx, with an AI panel that drafts and edits in place.
• Sheets: edit .xlsx, with AI tools over the grid.
• Slides: edit .pptx, with AI tools over shapes and layouts.
• PDF: read, convert, and run AI tools over the document.
• Markdown and Hangul: a Markdown editor, and .hwp/.hwpx editing through the embedded rhwp editor.
• One Home screen: every editor opens from a single shell and a shared project store.

AI editing runs through the tool loop in packages/agent-core and the fixed Redrob Console transport in packages/ai-provider. Bringing your own vendor key or pointing the app at an arbitrary server is deliberately not an option.

Install

Download a build for your system:

System	File
Windows x64	redrob-office-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe
Linux AppImage	redrob-office-<version>-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Linux deb	redrob-office-<version>-linux-x86_64.deb
Linux rpm	redrob-office-<version>-linux-x86_64.rpm

Every Linux package has a .sha256 beside it on the release. There is no macOS build. The app updates itself from these same releases.

Connect Redrob

The AI panels need a workspace key issued by Redrob Console. Create one under API keys in Console, then paste it into Settings → AI in the app. A key from anywhere else is rejected, and an empty key produces a plain failure notice rather than a silent no-op.

Console's one-click Connect Redrob device flow (where the app shows a short code and you approve it in Console instead of copying a key) is not wired into this app yet. Redrob Code and Redrob Cowork use it today; Office does not.

Control from Redrob Code

While Office is running it registers its document tools with the shared Redrob Code daemon on this machine (MCP over loopback, server app:office), so a prompt in any Redrob surface, a phone chat included, can drive the open tabs. The bridge is optional: when no daemon can be reached the shell logs it and runs as usual. The tools act through the same paths the File menu uses:

• list_documents: one line per open tab with its id, app kind, file path, dirty flag and active marker.
• open_document: open a file in the editor its extension belongs to, like File > Open; answers the tab id.
• read_document: the slide outline of a slides tab, or the saved text of a markdown tab (capped at 8000 characters).
• save_document: save a tab to its own file, like Ctrl+S.
• save_as: save a pdf tab to a new path without touching the original.
• export_pdf: start a sheets, slides or markdown tab's PDF export; the editor asks for the destination.
• write_cells: write a block of values (or = formulas) into a sheets tab at an A1 range; undoable, answers the cell count.
• replace_text: find and replace text in a docs tab (all matches or the first); undoable, answers the match count.

Local development

Node 22, pnpm 9.15.0, Electron and Turborepo.

pnpm install
pnpm dev              # @genoffice/shell
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build
pnpm dist

If you installed with pnpm install --ignore-scripts, run pnpm ensure:electron. On a headless machine that only needs typecheck and tests, set REDROB_SKIP_ELECTRON_ENSURE=1 to skip the Electron download explicitly.

Repository layout

Path	Role
apps/shell	The Redrob Office shell and Home screen
apps/{docs,sheets,slides,pdf,markdown,hangul}	Each editor and its AI panel
packages/agent-core	The shared agent loop that runs editing tools
packages/ai-provider	The fixed Redrob Console transport
packages/{docx-engine,pptx-engine,pptx-render,rhwp-editor}	Document format engines
packages/{genoffice-ui,i18n,electron-utils,project-store}	Shared UI and runtime

Package names are still @genoffice/*. They are import paths, not product surface, and renaming them would rewrite every import for no user-visible gain.

Releases

Pushing a v* tag runs release-desktop.yml: it signs the Windows installer, notarises the macOS build, builds the unsigned Linux packages, and publishes them all on one GitHub Release with SHA256SUMS.txt through the organization's shared publish job. The tag must match the version in apps/shell/package.json (v0.8.3 ↔ 0.8.3).

The release is also the update feed: latest.yml, latest-mac.yml and latest-linux.yml ride along with the installers, and the app reads them through electron-updater's GitHub provider. Details, including what a fork build does instead, are in docs/RELEASE.md.

Documentation

• docs/UPSTREAM.md: what this fork was ported from, and how upstream work is taken
• docs/RELEASE.md: how a release is built, signed and attached
• docs/console-api.md: the Redrob Console inference API contract
• docs/branding-cleanup.md: brand rules and the deliberate internal exceptions
• AGENTS.md: development and verification environment notes

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for branch naming, commit convention, the checks to run before opening a pull request, and the two fork rules that CI enforces.

Upstream

Redrob Office is a port, not a git fork: it shares no commit ancestry with upstream, so upstream work is taken file by file. The commit this tree was measured against, the method used to measure it, and the sync procedure are all in docs/UPSTREAM.md; the machine-readable record is upstream-base.json.

License and attribution

Apache-2.0. The office editor applications and their supporting packages are ported from GenOffice by Mainfunc, Inc., and remain under the same licence. Upstream's copyright notice is retained in NOTICE as Apache-2.0 section 4 requires; changes made in this port are copyright Janghoon Lee (Redrob) and contributors, under the same terms. pnpm check:upstream-boundary fails the build if that notice is ever removed.

The Hangul editing capability is provided by rhwp (MIT), vendored and served offline. Bundled fonts and third-party components are listed in NOTICE; the full third-party notice file is generated at packaging time and ships inside the application bundle.

The licence covers the software, not the brand: the Redrob name and logos are not licensed under it.