Qwen3 4BStarter
Lowest memory footprint for first-run setup on 16 GB Apple Silicon Macs.
Recommended memory: 16-23 GB
Download size: 2.3 GB
Quantization: Q4_K_M
License: Apache-2.0
Download SurfaceOps
SurfaceOps is shipping as a Mac desktop workbench first.
The public alpha feed is wired. The first signed DMG appears here as soon as the latest clean semver desktop release is promoted.
Target platform
Apple Silicon Mac
Delivery
Public alpha DMG first. Stable promotes automatically after a 72-hour soak.
Model policy
Open-source local models only. No hosted inference requirement for the core workbench.
Current public channels
Alpha
0.1.0
The public alpha release line is wired through the same canonical manifest that powers downloads, release notes, and desktop updates.
Signed public alpha DMG pending the next promoted release.
Stable
Coming after soak
Stable automatically promotes the exact alpha build that has soaked for 72 hours without being blocked.
Stable download appears here after the alpha soak window completes.
Managed local model tiers
The desktop app suggests one of these pinned models during first-run setup based on unified memory, then downloads it into the SurfaceOps app container.
Qwen3 8BBalanced
Balanced local coding and contract-shaping model for 24 GB to 35 GB Apple Silicon Macs.
Recommended memory: 24-35 GB
Download size: 4.7 GB
Quantization: Q4_K_M
License: Apache-2.0
gpt-oss 20BQuality
Highest quality default for 36 GB and larger Apple Silicon Macs.
Recommended memory: 36+ GB
Download size: 11.3 GB
Quantization: MXFP4
License: Apache-2.0