What you can do with Minke

3 use cases

• Continue agent tasks from your phone over Tailscale

  Expose Minke's Web UI privately to your phone through Tailscale Serve over HTTPS.

  • Minke
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the lencx/Minke repository README, guide the user through enabling Tailscale Serve remote access on a computer running Minke and confirm the displayed https://…ts.net address. Expected output: a short checklist with the address the phone should open. Verify that the Tailscale status on the Minke computer shows it connected to the same tailnet as the phone before reporting success.

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• Run Minke in development mode from a source checkout

  Stage the pinned DeepSeek Harness runtime and launch the Minke development app.

  • Minke
  • Personal productivity
  • Advanced
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  Using the lencx/Minke repository, set up a development build from a fresh checkout and report the result of each step. Expected output: a log summary showing that harness:stage completed and that pnpm start launched the app. Verify that the vendor/deepseek-harness submodule is populated before running any build command.

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• Check a Minke installer against published SHA-256 digests

  Confirm a downloaded Minke package matches the official release checksums before installing it.

  • Minke
  • Personal productivity
  • Intermediate
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  Using the lencx/Minke README and its SHA256SUMS release file, verify the SHA-256 digest of the downloaded <package-file>. Expected output: a match or mismatch report for that exact filename. Verify that the filename in SHA256SUMS matches the downloaded package name before comparing digests.

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How to use Minke

1. Check you have what it needs: A macOS, Windows x64, or Linux x64 computer; Access to the official GitHub Releases page for Minke; For remote access: a Tailscale account and Tailscale installed on the Minke computer and the phone.
2. Open lencx/Minke on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install Tailscale on the Minke computer and the phone, sign both into the same tailnet, and confirm the computer is connected.
4. In Minke, open Connections → Device access → Remote access, select HTTPS Serve, and enable remote access; no restart is required.
5. Copy or open the displayed https://…ts.net address on the phone.
6. On the phone, open the address, choose Install Minke in the sidebar, and accept the browser install prompt to add it as a PWA.

These steps come from our top use case, Continue agent tasks from your phone over Tailscale, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers and power users who want an agent workspace on their own computer and sometimes need to reach it from a phone or another machine.
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• LanguageTypeScript
• Sourcegithub.com/lencx/Minke · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• A macOS, Windows x64, or Linux x64 computer
• Access to the official GitHub Releases page for Minke
• For remote access: a Tailscale account and Tailscale installed on the Minke computer and the phone
• For building from source: Git with submodule support, Node.js 24 or newer, and pnpm 11.28.5

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