Getting Started

InControl Desktop is a privacy-first, GPU-accelerated chat application that runs LLMs entirely on your machine.

Prerequisites

• .NET 9.0 Runtime
• Windows 10 1809+ (Windows 11 recommended)
• A local LLM backend — we recommend Ollama

Set up Ollama

# Install from https://ollama.ai/download
# Pull a model
ollama pull llama3.2

# Start the server
ollama serve

Install InControl

From Release (recommended)

1. Download the latest MSIX package from Releases
2. Double-click to install
3. Launch from Start Menu

From Source

git clone https://github.com/mcp-tool-shop-org/InControl-Desktop.git
cd InControl-Desktop
dotnet restore
dotnet build

# Run (requires Ollama running locally)
dotnet run --project src/InControl.App

Run tests

dotnet test

Verify build environment

./scripts/verify.ps1