GSD Pi Config

Desktop configuration manager for GSD Pi preferences. A native Tauri app that gives you a structured GUI over the YAML preferences file you'd otherwise hand-edit, plus a library view for skills, agents, and API keys.

Web app: Browser editor — upload or create a configuration, edit in the browser, then download preferences.md, models.json, and settings.json for your machine. Preset gallery and wizard included (see Web vs desktop).

Screenshots

General	Models	API Keys & Auth
Workflow mode, profiles, and global behavior toggles.	Per-phase model selection with ordered fallback chains.	Keychain-backed provider keys and CLI auth status.

What it does

• Edit preferences visually. Every field in .gsd/preferences.md (or ~/.gsd/preferences.md) is exposed across organized sections — models, git, hooks, parallel execution, safety, verification, routing, and more.
• Global or project scope. Toggle between editing your global preferences or a per-project file. Recent projects are remembered.
• Skills library. Browse, edit, create, and delete SKILL.md files in ~/.claude/skills/ and <project>/.claude/skills/. Legacy gsd-* bundled skills are filtered out.
• Agents library. Same workflow for .claude/agents/*.md subagent definitions.
• API keys via OS keychain. Store provider keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) in the system keyring and export them to a sourceable ~/.gsd/env.sh shell file (mode 0600).
• Presets. Import/export .preset.md files for sharing configurations, or copy a redacted YAML block to the clipboard with the Share dialog (secrets are scrubbed before it leaves the app).
• Atomic, snowflake-safe writes. Saves go through an atomic write path and stringy IDs (Discord channel IDs, etc.) survive round-trips without numeric truncation.

Tech stack

• Tauri 2 (Rust backend, system-native window)
• React 19 + TypeScript + Vite 8
• Tailwind CSS 4
• keyring crate for OS keychain access

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• Rust toolchain (stable)
• Tauri 2 prerequisites for your platform — see tauri.app/start/prerequisites

Install & run (desktop)

npm install
npm run tauri dev

The dev server runs on port 1420. The app window opens automatically once the Rust backend compiles.

Web (local)

npm install
npm run dev:web

Opens the gallery + editor on port 5173. Copy .env.web.example to .env.web.local to override preset repo URLs.

npm run build:web
npm run preview:web
npm test

Preset gallery data is loaded from open-gsd/gsd-pi-presets (override URLs in .env.web.local).

Web vs desktop

The web app is a cloud editor: it cannot read or write files on your computer. Import existing configs (or start from a preset/wizard), edit in the session, then Download files to install under ~/.gsd/ locally. A browser draft is kept so you can refresh without losing work in that session.

Feature	Web	Desktop
Preference sections (editor)	Yes	Yes
Edit ~/.gsd/ or project files in place	No — upload + download	Yes
Global / project scope	Global only	Global + real project folders
models.json / settings.json	Import + download	On disk
Skills / agents libraries	No	Yes (~/.claude, project)
API keys	Browser session; export env.sh	OS keychain
CLI auth detection (gcloud, gh)	No	Yes
Preset gallery / wizard	Yes	Import/export files
Auto-update installer	No	Yes

Build a release bundle

npm run tauri build

Bundles land in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
⌘K	Open command palette (jump to any field)
⌘S	Save changes
⌘⇧Z	Discard changes
[ / ]	Previous / next section

Project layout

src/                 React frontend
  components/        Sidebar, Palette, ShareModal, FormControls
  components/sections/  One file per preferences section
  hooks/             useDirty (change tracking)
  lib/               keyboard, presets, theme, validators, tauri listeners
  types.ts           TypeScript mirror of the GSD Pi preferences schema
src-tauri/           Rust backend
  src/lib.rs         Tauri command handlers (preferences, skills, agents, keys)
  src/core.rs        YAML serialization, frontmatter parsing, atomic writes
  tauri.conf.json    Window config & bundle settings

Where preferences live

• Global: ~/.gsd/preferences.md
• Project: <project>/.gsd/preferences.md

Both are markdown files with a YAML frontmatter block — fully compatible with hand editing if you ever need to drop into a text editor.

License

MIT © Jeremy McSpadden