Meadow Authoring

Meadow Authoring provides a browser interface for writing, checking, and running Meadow workflows, with a single command for execution, inspection and maintenance.

Use Python 3.13.3 with Node 24 or later and npm available on macOS or Windows.

python -m pip install meadow-authoring
meadow-authoring

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000. Use --host and --port to change the listening address. Initial startup installs the locked npm dependencies, including the Wasm compiler. Every startup regenerates and builds the application.

Workflow execution needs Git and the tools and credentials for the selected provider. The Bridge provider uses a compatible Copilot language server and Copilot authentication. OpenCode execution requires OpenCode; container execution requires Podman and a compatible image. Those tools, images, and credentials are not included in this distribution.

Install into a dedicated Python environment; do not install a separate meadow-runtime distribution alongside this bundle. Initial setup initializes absent settings. Ordinary launches, repairs and upgrades preserve existing settings, templates and recorded work. Incompatible or damaged settings fail explicitly; an upgrade does not replace them.

meadow-authoring is the single installed application command. It also accepts workflow execution arguments and tool selectors such as --sequence, --dialog and --team-config; use --help or a tool selector followed by --help. --setup prepares the application without opening its interface.

All application reset tiers preserve recoverable backups and publish packaged settings immediately. --reset defaults keeps work and restores settings; --reset environment also rebuilds the local environment on the next launch; --reset all archives managed work and starts with empty active stores. Project repositories, credentials, browser storage, external outputs and older backups remain protected. Stop programs using the selected resources before resetting. Use the reported reset identifier with --recover RESET_ID to inspect an interrupted reset and --recover RESET_ID --rollback to request restoration.