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The desktop apps are the point-and-click path through the same engine the CLI uses. This walkthrough uses Post, the free front door, then points at the Pro features and the rest of the suite: Flock, Loft, Migrate, and Conform.

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Before you start

  • Install Pidgeon (or on macOS). Installing the launcher does not install the individual product apps; each is its own download.
  • Post’s free generation and validation loop needs no account. Everything else on this page (Pro features, Flock, Loft, Migrate) requires a Pidgeon account sign-in.
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Generate a message

Open Post and the Generate panel (under Compose). Pick a message type (for example ADT^A01), set a count, and generate. The message appears in the output pane with syntax highlighting.
2

Validate it

Open the Validate panel (under Inspect). Paste your message or load the file, choose strict or compatibility mode, and read the field-level results with fix suggestions.
3

Run a conformance check

Open the Conformance panel (under Inspect) to probe a live FHIR endpoint against a published Implementation Guide (US Core and Da Vinci PAS 2.1 today). This is Conform, Pidgeon’s fifth product. Its conformance capability runs inside Post now; the standalone Conform app is in beta and not yet downloadable.
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Explore the Pro features

Signing in with a Pro entitlement adds:
  • Workflow Wizard: build multi-step scenarios (admit, labs, discharge) visually
  • Diff: compare two messages or directories with field-level highlighting
  • AI Triage: plain-English explanations of validation failures, on-device or BYOK
  • Reports: export HTML validation and conformance reports for stakeholders
  • Expanded reference datasets (LOINC, SNOMED CT, NDC, RxNorm, HCPCS)
AI Triage is a Post Pro feature. The local Bridge route it uses is unauthenticated because the Bridge only listens on loopback for the signed-in user.

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Desktop apps and CLI share the same engine

Anything you do in a desktop app has a CLI equivalent, and CLI artifacts (reports, configs, profiles) are readable from the desktop apps:
The conform command ships with the CLI bundled inside the desktop apps, not the free dotnet tool package. See the CLI quickstart for what the free CLI includes.

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