Division of labor

Rule of thumb

HCI Nerdz Desktop Tooling OpenShellOrg

How should humans see and manipulate systems?

How should the OS desktop behave?

How should CLIs and shells speak and compose?

Surfaces, themes, dialogs, spatial UI, attention

Explorer, shell extensions, theming, launchers, windowing

Flags, pipes, entrypoints, help budgets, env refresh

Innovate / prototype GUIs

Ship OS utilities

Standardize / certify / companion-tool CLIs

DevCentr sits beside all three: it recommends and configures developer environments; it does not own SOS, HCI chrome, or Explorer gadgets. It also hosts the systems-altitude framing for Internet Reliability, Provider search and mirror backups, and Hash-matched binary conversion profiles under Internet Architecture; HCI Nerdz keeps the Labels versus wires, Host-held history, and On-disk game conversion symptom ↔ diagnosis/treatment faces and published essay/demo URLs.

Boundary examples

Topic Home

Terminal prompts that promote to native GUI dialogs while always echoing prompt text to stdout

OpenShellOrg (terminal-gui-prompts) — shell transport clarity

Custom rich file open dialogs as an interaction pattern

HCI Nerdz (electron-custom-dialog)

SVG thumbnail handler / Explorer thumbcache verb

Desktop Tooling

Progressive CLI help (Prohelp)

OpenShellOrg

Persistent shell context — protocol, CLI libs, Nushell fork

OpenShellOrg (shell-context, persistent-shell-context spec)

Shell prompt context tokens — left-arrow focus, boxed segments, theme packs, web demo

HCI Nerdz (shell-context-chrome, shell-context-demo)

Programmer-POV diagnostics / channel switcher / tool-run attention patterns

HCI Nerdz (concept); OpenShellOrg owns the bus + hosts

Tool-run daemon, wrappers, OPENSH_SESSION_ID, compile as structured run

OpenShellOrg (tool-run-diagnostics, open-terminal / open-shell)

AsciiDoc preview theme fidelity in editors

HCI Nerdz for the presentation layer; Antora plumbing with antora-supplemental

Non-frustrating graphical desktop shell as HCI research

HCI Nerdz

Activity map launcher, night theme changer, webcam bridge

Desktop Tooling

OS desktop flash / tray index when the tool-run host is the desktop

Desktop Tooling (helpers); OpenShellOrg keeps the protocol

On-disk game conversion (symptom / hub UX / owned-media transformation face)

HCI Nerdz; DevCentr systems page + equivalence-engine / binary-tailor substrate