INSTALL

Desktop

2.9MB install. Model downloads in background.

System Requirements

  • macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon recommended)
  • 8GB RAM minimum, 16GB recommended
  • 4GB disk space for models

Install

# macOS
curl -fsSL tarx.com/install | sh

# Or download the DMG directly
open https://tarx.com/download

What you get

  • Local inference — Qwen 2.5 7B running on your GPU via llama.cpp
  • 310 MCP tools — Memory, files, orchestration, testing, and more
  • RAG pipeline — Semantic search over your files with nomic-embed
  • Mesh networking — Connect to other TARX nodes for distributed compute

Ports

TARX Desktop runs four local services:

11435  Inference API (OpenAI-compatible)
11436  Mesh network
11437  Embedding server
11438  Cognitive services