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Cody Assistant is a Windows desktop application that sits on your screen as a friendly animated pet — and opens into a full productivity hub when you need it. It reads your Outlook Classic inbox and calendar locally (no Microsoft Graph tokens required), surfaces actionable tasks from emails, manages meetings with Teams join links, and keeps you focused with escalating reminders and a built-in Focus Mode.

Installation

Install Cody on Windows — installer or portable build

Quickstart

Get up and running in five minutes with your first sync

Core Features

Explore the pet, task manager, Outlook sync, and meetings

Configuration

Customize your pet, AI provider, sync interval, and more

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What Cody Does

Cody runs as a transparent always-on-top window displaying your chosen pet character. A short click opens the full assistant panel; minimizing returns you to the pet. The assistant syncs with Outlook Classic over COM automation — entirely local, no cloud credentials needed.

Floating Pet

Six animated companions with mood states and per-pet themes

Task Manager

Categories, priorities, recurrence, and auto-escalation

Outlook Sync

Read emails and calendar events via local COM automation

Meetings

Teams join links, conflict detection, staggered reminders

Focus Mode

25, 50, or 90-minute deep work sessions, Do Not Disturb

AI Classification

Azure OpenAI or OpenAI to categorize email suggestions

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Get Started in Five Minutes

1

Install Cody

Download Cody Setup <version>.exe and run the installer. No administrator privileges required — Cody installs per-user.
2

Choose your companion

On first launch, enter your name and pick your pet: bunny, froggo, panda, cow, cat, or dog. Each pet applies its own visual theme to the entire interface.
3

Sync Outlook

Open your Outlook Classic profile, then go to Settings → Sync Outlook and calendar in Cody. The app reads up to 40 recent emails and 14 days of calendar events locally.
4

Review and act

Cody proposes tasks extracted from emails. Accept, edit, or dismiss suggestions. Meetings appear in the calendar view with Teams join buttons when available.
Cody reads Outlook Classic via COM automation on your local machine. It never contacts Microsoft Graph APIs and never requires a Client ID, Tenant ID, or Client Secret.

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Global Keyboard Shortcuts

ShortcutAction
Win+Shift+COpen or close Cody
Win+Shift+TCreate a quick task
Win+Shift+SForce Outlook sync
Win+Shift+FToggle Focus Mode

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Key Concepts

  • Pet window — transparent, frameless, always-on-top Electron window displaying the animated companion
  • Assistant panel — the full task, inbox, calendar, and settings interface
  • AppState — the complete application state persisted to %APPDATA%/cody-desktop-assistant/cody-data.json
  • IPC bridge — the window.desktop API exposed by the preload script that connects the renderer to the Electron main process

Desktop API Reference

Full window.desktop method signatures and return types

Data Types

TypeScript interfaces: Task, Meeting, AppState, AppSettings

Enterprise Deployment

Pilot readiness, Microsoft Store route, and enterprise checklist

Security

Electron hardening, CSP, IPC validation, and data storage

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