Varin is an independent agent workspace and full harness for coding, research, and other project work, centered on local and desktop experiences. It bundles the Pi runtime: the model and provider stack, session tree, package manager, and extension model remain Pi-owned, while Varin owns the surrounding tool environment, working state, recovery, retrieval, context policy, task governance, and workbench surfaces. Varin ships two first-party working shapes: an Agent Workspace centered on sessions, tasks, and context, and an IDE Workbench centered on editors, search, Git, diagnostics, and debugging with the agent as a dockable panel.
What's new in 0.9.32
Varin 0.9.32 updates code retrieval, conversation reading and settings. Code retrieval now uses native Agent investigations without requiring a prebuilt code vector index. The default chat layout puts answers first and keeps execution details in expandable live activity rows. This release also improves structured questions, plan editing, project trust and local knowledge embeddings, and fixes task continuation after answering questions and Windows upgrades involving long paths.
Yes. Varin is free and open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0-only license.
What is the latest version of Varin?
The latest version is 0.9.32, released on Oct 24, 2026.
Is it safe to download Varin?
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with 9cba491d8df2ac303bf7774bec0dcadffc38c64ebb4bba51305286578b832bcb.
Which Windows versions does Varin support?
Varin runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64), ARM64 systems.
How do I install Varin silently?
Run the offline installer with "Varin-0.9.32-win-x64.exe" /S /currentuser, or install it with Windows Package Manager: winget install --id=Youzini-afk.Varin -e --silent.
How do I uninstall Varin?
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find Varin and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=Youzini-afk.Varin -e.
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