Desktop pandas

Added

• PandaCode now opens with a panda animation that hands off to the sidebar wordmark. Click the wordmark to replay it; typing or clicking keeps the workspace immediately usable.
• A small panda beside Settings offers a star and opens the PandaCode repository when clicked. Its request is also available through keyboard focus.
• Both pandas follow the app theme and accessibility settings. Reduced motion keeps the branding static, and the header adapts to narrow sidebars and Mac window controls.

Known limitations

• Desktop behavior is checked in Chrome and WebKit browser previews. Packaged native installers have not been manually tested on real hardware for this release.

Installing

• macOS (Apple silicon): open PandaCode-macOS-arm64.dmg and drag PandaCode to Applications. This build is signed and notarized, so macOS opens it without a warning.
• macOS (Intel): the same, with PandaCode-macOS-x64.dmg.
• Windows x64: run PandaCode-Windows-x64-setup.exe. If SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher, choose More info > Run anyway.
• Windows arm64: run PandaCode-Windows-arm64-setup.exe (same SmartScreen step).
• Linux x64: chmod +x PandaCode-Linux-x86_64.AppImage and run it.
• Linux arm64: chmod +x PandaCode-Linux-aarch64.AppImage and run it.
• Any of the above, from a terminal: npx pandacode downloads, verifies and installs the right build, and signs it locally on macOS, so no Gatekeeper warning appears.

Each file has a .sha256 checksum beside it. Installed copies update themselves from this page. Build from source: see CONTRIBUTING.md.