Block’s new Apache 2.0 agent workspace Berd works across models and harnesses, stores conversation history locally

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, tools and projects.Berd is a locally installed graphical desktop application rather than a browser-based workspace. It is available now on GitHub under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — meaning anyone can use, modify...