Division of labor

How should the OS desktop behave?

How should humans see and manipulate systems?

How should CLIs and shells speak and compose?

How should developer machines be configured?

Explorer, shell extensions, theming, launchers, windowing

Surfaces, themes-as-contracts, dialogs, attention, product representation

Flags, pipes, entrypoints, help budgets, SOS

Toolchains, package hubs, agent rules, environment orchestration

SVG thumbnail handler in Explorer

Desktop Tooling (svgesus)

Custom dialog pattern for Electron (honest surfaces)

HCI Nerdz (electron-custom-dialog)

Progressive CLI help (Prohelp)

OpenShellOrg

“Open with Cursor” Explorer verb for developers

Dev-Centr

Activity map / window launcher

Desktop Tooling (activity-map-shell)

Piles canvas/sentiment inbox pattern and demos

HCI Nerdz (piles)

Piles installed mail client (IMAP, SQLite, Avalonia)

Desktop Tooling (piles)

Context rails / pipeline composer experiments

HCI Nerdz

Spatial web windows interaction pattern and demo

HCI Nerdz

Chromium fork for browser windowing (spatial-browser)

Desktop Tooling

Intent routing for UI-heavy / WASM web apps

Dev-Centr

Open Provider Registry / machine-local model discovery

Dev-Centr (uniprovider — OPR protocol; not a Desktop Tooling shell extension)

Tool-run bus, wrappers, shell session ids, compile diagnostics protocol

OpenShellOrg (tool-run diagnostics)

Programmer-POV diagnostic wording / channel-switcher patterns

HCI Nerdz

OS desktop flash, tray, or focus helpers when a tool-run index lives outside an IDE

Desktop Tooling (helpers only — do not redefine the bus)

Agentic harness embedding of tool-run widgets (embed / timeline)

Dev-Centr (consumes OpenShellOrg library contract)