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genoffice: a Chinese translation of the open-source AI Office suite

The original genspark-ai/genoffice repository has 9580 stars, is written in TypeScript, and ships under Apache-2.0. The Chinese version, yangshun2005/genoffice-cn, was published today. It has zero stars, which is normal for a repository that is a few hours old, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What it is: a translated documentation fork. The code is the upstream code. What changed is the README — and, more usefully, a short "中文快速上手" section prepended to it that the original does not have. Why a translated README is not a trivial thing For an English-speaking developer, the genoffice README is a normal README. You skim the feature list, find the Releases link, download the right installer, and you're running in five minutes. For a Chinese-speaking developer, the same document has a specific failure mode that isn't about vocabulary. It's about where the operational details sit. The upstream README is organized as a product page: positioning first, feature bullets second, install links somewhere in the middle, and the CLI/MCP/agent-skill material further down. If you're evaluating whether this thing can do a job for you, you read top to bottom and hope the answer is in there. The Chinese version inverts that. The top of the page is a short section labeled as a supplement, explicitly marked as not part of the original text, and it answers the questions you'd otherwise have to reconstruct: What is this, and what problem does it solve The shortest path to a running app Environment requirements Known gotchas That's the actual value. Not "the README is now in Chinese." It's that someone read the whole thing, figured out which parts a new user needs first, and put those parts at the top. What genoffice actually does The core claim, from the README: it opens and saves native .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files, edits PDF, Markdown, and HTML, and puts an AI agent next to each document. Not a chat sidebar — an editor that reads the file, makes changes, and shows you what changed. The detail that matters most is byte-level preservation. Only the parts you edited get rewritten. Everything else in the file is kept byte for byte, so the document still opens correctly in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This is the difference between "an AI tool that exports to Office format" and "an AI tool that edits your Office files." Most tools in this space do the former and call it the latter. The other structural choices: Edits are reviewable. Changes appear as tracked changes and diffs, with one-click rollback. Spreadsheets use live formulas rather than pasted values. Slides and pages are generated on a canvas and stay fully editable. Local-first. Opening, editing, saving, and converting happen on your machine. PDF → Word / Excel / PowerPoint, Markdown → Word, and HTML → Word all run locally. Only AI calls leave the machine, and they go to whichever provider you picked. Search by content. The home screen runs a local SQLite index over .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, PDF, Markdown, and HTML files — names, folders, and full text, with CJK support. Optionally, top results get reranked by TypeSafe Jev (System One judgment model) so the file that answers your question sorts first. Ask AI across documents. Bookmark a set of documents and the home screen's Ask AI answers questions across them, citing the source file for each claim so you can open it and check. Bring your own key, or don't. Log in with Genspark to skip keys entirely, or supply your own from Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Doubao, MiniMax, Grok, Mistral, OpenRouter, Requesty, Opper, Cheaper Inference, Atlas Cloud, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or a local server. Scriptable. The app ships a genoffice CLI plus skills for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, and Windsurf, so a coding agent can create, convert, read, and edit real Office files on your machine without opening a window. Platforms: mac

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