infusius/masala
A research workspace where an agent works beside you: chat, PDFs, notebooks and files in one dock, plus custom panes the agent builds on request.
About the project
A research workspace where an AI agent works beside you: chat, files, PDFs and Jupyter notebooks in one dock, and the agent can create custom panes and apps when needed.
Useful for
- Run an agent to read and edit files in a workspace folder
- Open PDFs, markdown and Jupyter notebooks beside chat in one window
- Ask the agent for a literature review and open its result
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- The repository is 13 days old and already has 85 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes” — 54 points, 12 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (390 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 85
- Today
- 0 · ≈ 0 by evening
- Forks
- 8
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Created
- September 15, 2026
- Last push
- September 15, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: Panel – A research workspace where the agent can build its own panes54 points, September 15, 2026
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- September 22, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 21, 2026Top new repositories this week: #196; Spotted on Hacker News
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- September 15, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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