Mandara

Part of Jurai — a living desktop ecosystem by 0xSrcAura. This piece is one of its public doors.

The Jurai suite's launcher for Ryoku — the Obelisk herself, ported whole from Jurai shell. Summon her, type, run.

She is a centred sentient modal: a smoked-glass plate with a prism rim in her morph colour, her author's name at her head beneath the Jurai emblem, and the lens — one input that hears everything.

She drives in three breaths. Everything in her fits three houses, and a breath is a word — type sun, moon or celestial, or lock the breath as a chip, and she changes how she drives:

• ☀ SUN — doing. Amber. The bench of making and work rides first, and the filesystem road opens to plain lines.
• ☽ MOON — living. Indigo. The daily round: frecency pure, exactly as she ranks at rest. She wakes in Moon.
• ✧ CELESTIAL — playing. White prism. Games and media float up; the evening is hers.

The breath tints her water, warms her stamp, speaks in her placeholder, and persists between summons.

What the lens resolves:

• APPLICATIONS — your desktop entries, matched and ranked by her own scoring (exact, prefix, contains — and what you run often rises, because she remembers), leaned by the breath she is driving in.
• SEGMENTS — her runes, speaking the daily tongue now. Type a segment's name and the rest of the line rides as its argument: open and find (Sun), ask, note, timer, clip, lock, sleep, vol, mute, wifi, bright (Moon), play, pause, next, prev, shot (Celestial). TAB locks a segment as a crystallized chip; chips and the line compose in her grammar, and the portal's suggestions are dynamic — kin of a locked house lead, and your own usage outranks the dictionary.
• FILESYSTEM — a path-shaped query (/…, or files …) finds under your home. Enter opens. Under Sun, any line searches files beside apps.
• RASHIN — a line that is natural language becomes Ask Rashin. Enter opens the compass window and asks Ryoku's real Rashin service, using its configured route and shared Ask history.
• COMMAND — a line nothing answers to becomes a command row. Enter runs it in the shell. Type abyss and she becomes a shell passthrough until you say it again.

The keyboard is a grammar, not a shortcut list: ↑↓ choose, Ctrl+J/K ride the same road, Page and Ctrl+↑↓ jump sections, Ctrl+1–9 casts the nth answer outright, TAB locks a segment or takes the ghost, Esc peels — radial, chips, line, then her. The Guardian stands at her gate, as she always did: a bad IPv4 octet, a mistyped flag, a line that fights itself — she raises her badge and stops the execute until the line is fixed. A target in the line raises the holo ring, and TAB on it blooms the radial diamond.

Application, file, and command resolution stays local. Questions use Ryoku's configured Rashin service. Mandara's own memory lives in ~/.local/state/ryoku/mandara-usage.json and mandara-drive.json.

Install (RyoStore): the mandara app launcher, then pick her in Settings -> App Launcher. Super+Space summons her from then on.