DevDeck

Developer Workspace Manager — a fast hub for AI-driven, multi-repo development.

DevDeck is not just a VS Code launcher. In a development style where AI agents do the implementation and humans check in to review, judge, and fix, DevDeck is the human's home base: within seconds you can see which repositories are safe to work on, open the ones you need, and resume where you left off.

• Project registry — register local folders, filter by name/tag, favorites, recent
• Git status at a glance — current branch, ahead/behind upstream (pull needed?), uncommitted changes (work in progress?), refreshed in the background
• Open in VS Code — select any number of projects and open them as a single multi-root workspace (single selection opens the plain folder)
• Workspace presets — save/load named selections of projects
• Git operations — Fetch / Pull (--ff-only) / branch switch per project
• Launchers — terminal, Windows Explorer, and an AI agent (Claude Code by default) in the project directory; all commands are customizable in Settings
• Per-project notes & tags
• Session restore — the projects selected when you quit are selected again on next launch

Runtime requirements: git and the VS Code code command on PATH.

$dir = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\devdeck"
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force $dir | Out-Null
Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/atman-33/devdeck/releases/latest/download/devdeck.exe" -OutFile "$dir\devdeck.exe"
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "User") + ";$dir", "User")

Open a new terminal and run:

devdeck

Each release also ships devdeck-windows-x86_64.zip (exe + README + LICENSE) and SHA256SUMS.txt if you prefer manual installation.

Requires Rust and Node.js 22+:

npm install
npx tauri build --no-bundle
# -> src-tauri/target/release/devdeck.exe

DevDeck checks GitHub Releases on startup. When a newer version exists, a banner appears at the top — click Update & restart and it replaces itself with the new version. The check can be disabled in ⚙ Settings.

1. ➕ Add projects — pick one or more local repository folders.
2. Check the status badges per project:
   • ⎇ branch — current branch
   • ↓N pull needed — remote has commits you don't; pull before starting work
   • ↑N — local commits not pushed
   • ● N changes — uncommitted changes; the repo is mid-work
   • clean / ✓ up to date — safe to start
3. Select projects with the checkboxes and hit 🚀 Open in VS Code.
4. Save the current selection as a preset to reopen the same set later.

Ahead/behind counts compare against the last-fetched remote state; press ⬇ Fetch all (or per-project Fetch) to update them.

⚙ Settings lets you customize the external commands ({path} is replaced with the project path):

Everything is stored in a single human-readable JSON file: %APPDATA%\devdeck\config.json. Generated multi-root workspace files live in %USERPROFILE%\.devdeck\workspaces\ (not under AppData — some antivirus folder shielding prevents a running VS Code instance from reading workspace files there, which makes them open as an empty editor tab instead).

Tauri 2: Rust backend + React frontend in a single devdeck.exe.

Backend (src-tauri/src/):

Frontend (src/): React 19, Tailwind CSS v4, shadcn/ui, lucide icons.

Design notes:

• Git: shells out to the git CLI instead of libgit2, so fetch/pull reuse your existing credential helpers with zero auth configuration. All git calls run on background threads; the UI never blocks.
• Extensibility: launchers are template strings, so adding another agent or tool is a settings change, not a code change. The config file is versioned for future migrations.

npm install
npm run tauri dev          # app with hot reload
cd src-tauri; cargo test   # backend unit tests

MIT