mini-ork IDE

The native desktop interface for mini-ork: a GPUI app, drawn inside a fork of Zed, for starting runs, watching a task DAG execute, and inspecting what each node actually did.

This repository is the canonical source of that interface crate (mini_ork_ui). It is not built or run from here — see Building. Two repositories vendor it as a git submodule.

Where the source lives

Repository	Submodule path	Role
SourceShift/mini-ork	ui/	the Python engine that ships the crate
SourceShift/zed-mini-ork	crates/mini_ork_ui/	the IDE that builds it

An edit here is inert until a superproject is moved onto the new commit (git submodule update --remote <path> in that repository) and the IDE is rebuilt. Pushing to this repository alone changes nothing a user sees — that is the single most surprising thing about working here.

Building

mini_ork_ui does not compile on its own, by design. Fourteen of its dependencies are Zed-internal path crates — gpui, ui, workspace, agent_ui, theme, project, settings, git_ui, platform_title_bar, markdown, http_client, fs, util, ui_input — and the manifest is a member of the Zed workspace (edition.workspace = true, every dep.workspace = true). There is no binary and no standalone cargo build.

Build and run it from a zed-mini-ork checkout, not from here:

git clone git@github.com:SourceShift/zed-mini-ork.git
cd zed-mini-ork

script/mini-ork-check   # materialise the pinned crate, then type-check it
script/mini-ork-build   # build the IDE (release-fast profile)
script/mini-ork-ide     # launch that build

script/mini-ork-pull moves an existing checkout onto the latest released base and rebuilds. The fork's MINI-ORK.md has the full story.

Repository layout

Path	Holds
src/mini_ork_ui.rs	crate root — init(cx), the entry Zed calls to mount the UI
src/sidebar.rs	MiniOrkSidebar, the view this crate exports
src/graph.rs	the run DAG and the node inspector, with its tabs
src/page.rs, src/sections.rs	the engine-driven page renderer
src/board.rs, src/run_panel.rs	the run board and its detail panel
src/store.rs, src/ide_http.rs	client state, and the read-only /ide/* surface
src/components.rs, src/palette.rs, src/title_bar.rs	shared widgets, theming, chrome

The remaining modules (flow, jump, loading, node_tab, projects, select, status, thumb) are supporting views.

How it reaches mini-ork

Through the mini-ork CLI (board …, automations …, init, serve) as a subprocess, and — when a server is already running — a read-only /ide/* HTTP surface. See docs/UI.md and docs/FEATURES.md.

Contributing

• Keep the crate type-checking: script/mini-ork-check must pass before you push.
• A change is not delivered until a superproject is bumped and the IDE rebuilt.
• Follow the surrounding GPUI idiom — cx.notify() for re-render, observation for cross-entity state, Render / RenderOnce for views.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later, matching the Zed crates it links against. See LICENSE.