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2026-07-27 • 8 min read

Vault: A Search-First File Manager to Replace Finder

Vault is a minimal, cross-platform file manager built around search instead of folder trees — Go and Wails under a React UI, 353ms cold start, ~80MB idle RAM, OS-trash-only deletes, and an MCP server so an AI client can drive it.

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