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Quick Start

Set up your first Lite Suite workspace in 5 minutes

Quick Start

This guide walks you through your first 5 minutes with Lite Suite — from launch to a productive multi-panel workspace.

1. Launch Lite Suite

Open Lite Suite from your Start Menu or desktop shortcut. You'll land on the canvas — an infinite 2D workspace.

2. Open Your First Panels

Click the + button in the sidebar (or press Ctrl+Shift+N) to open the Add Panel menu. Panels are organized by category:

  • Workspace — Terminal, Editor, Browser, Files, Git
  • AI — Frontier Chat, Claude, Codex, LiteAgent Chat
  • Tools — Benchmark, YouTube, Voice, Memory Graph, Model Hub
  • System — Dashboard, Settings

Start with these three:

  1. Terminal — a full terminal emulator (PowerShell, Bash, WSL) with AI agent integration
  2. Frontier Chat — chat with Claude, GPT, Gemini, or local models in a unified interface
  3. Editor — Monaco-based code editor with syntax highlighting for 50+ languages

3. Arrange Your Workspace

Drag panels to position them on the canvas. Resize by dragging edges. Zoom with Ctrl+Scroll and pan by holding Space+Drag (or middle mouse button).

Switch between modes:

  • Canvas — spatial arrangement, infinite scrolling
  • Zen — single focused panel, distraction-free

4. Try Voice Dictation

Lite Suite has a built-in voice pipeline. Press the voice hotkey (configurable in Settings) to start dictating. Speak naturally — the voice system transcribes locally via Whisper, optionally refines with an LLM, and pastes the result.

5. Connect to AI

The Frontier Chat panel works with multiple providers out of the box:

  • Cloud APIs — Claude, GPT, Gemini (add your API keys in Settings)
  • Local models — Connect to LM Studio, Ollama, or llama.cpp at localhost:1234
  • Claude Code / Codex — Run natively as canvas panels for AI-assisted development

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