living-ui-manager

Living UI Manager

Operate and manage existing Living UIs. Never edit code here — if a request needs code changes, that's living-ui-modify.

Inventory

• Registry: agent_file_system/workspace/living_ui_projects.json — id, name, status, port, path per project.
• Per project: manifest.json (port, authMode, pipeline), LIVING_UI.md (what it does), operations.json (its verbs).

Lifecycle

• living_ui_notify_ready(project_id) — validate + launch (or relaunch).
• living_ui_restart(project_id) — stop then full relaunch.
• A running app serves everything on ONE port: http://localhost:<port> — the UI, the PB REST API (/api/collections/...), declared ops, and discovery at GET /api/_ops.

Operating an app (using it on the user's behalf)

Use the lui CLI via run_shell. ALWAYS use the ABSOLUTE CLI path — the shell's cwd is NOT the repo root, so relative paths fail. The CLI is <craftbot-root>/living-ui/tools/src/cli.ts (craftbot-root = parent of agent_file_system; in a Living UI session the [INTERACTING WITH LIVING UI] note contains the exact ready-to-run commands). <CLI> and <project> below are absolute paths.

1. Discover what the app can do: node <CLI> ops <project>
2. Declared op exists → run it: node <CLI> run <project> <op-name> --param value Ops marked DESTRUCTIVE → confirm with the user first.
3. No op → generic data access: node <CLI> data <project> <collection> list --filter '...' --sort '-created' --limit 20 node <CLI> data <project> <collection> create --json '{"field":"value"}' node <CLI> data <project> <collection> update <id> --json '{...}' / delete <id> Read freely; write only what the app's own UI offers.
4. Needs new capability → say so and offer a modification instead of hacking around it.

Fallback only when the shell is unavailable: the living_ui_http action speaks to the same API.

Diagnosing

• Status error: read the project's error field in the registry, then logs/pocketbase.log (server/migrations) and logs/frontend_console.log (frontend). Report findings honestly; hand fixes to living-ui-modify.
• Never start pocketbase/npm processes by hand; never touch pb_data/ or .superuser.