Vibe Launcher

The local command center for everything you vibe-code. Projects, MCP servers, prompts, and markdown — one clean dashboard, zero cloud.

What is Vibe Launcher?

If you vibe-code a lot, you end up with dozens of projects scattered across your machine, a pile of half-remembered prompts, a few MCP servers to prod, and a growing stack of markdown notes. Vibe Launcher gives every one of them a permanent home — a local web dashboard where you can launch servers, open editors, test tools, organize prompts, and keep your docs tidy, all without touching the terminal.

No cloud. No account. No telemetry. Just a single vibel command.

Install

npm install -g @vjixy/vibel
vibel

Open http://localhost:3000.

Or run from source:

git clone https://github.com/vjixy/VibeLauncher.git
cd VibeLauncher
npm install
npm start

Features

Dashboard — a live overview of everything you're working on

• Stat cards for total projects, currently running, MCP servers online, and prompts in the library.
• Pinned projects row — run, stop, or open your most-used projects in one click.
• Recent activity feed — every command run, tool invoked, prompt created, or server dropping offline shows up here.
• Quick actions with keyboard shortcuts for creating a project, prompt, MCP connection, or importing markdown.
• Today counters, a rotating tip, and a friendly empty state on a fresh install.

Launcher — every project, one grid

• Category workspaces in the sidebar. Create, color-tag, and filter on the fly.
• Command pills per project with distinct tints for run / build / test / custom — click to launch, click again to stop.
• Live running state with a pulsing green dot on any project with an active process.
• Pin important projects to the top, drag to reorder, filter by running/pinned, and sort by recent / name / pinned-first.
• Grid or list view toggle. Search filters across names, paths, notes, and categories instantly.

Project detail drawer — deep dive, without leaving the grid

• Health check — path exists, IDE command resolvable, package.json present.
• Commands tab — run / stop each command inline, see uptime for running processes.
• Prompts & markdown links — attach relevant prompts and docs to a project so they travel with it.
• Notes tab with autosave.
• Keyboard-navigate between projects with the ↑ / ↓ buttons at the top.

New & edit project — opinionated form

Name, absolute path, IDE command, categories (with inline create), multiple named run commands, notes, and a one-click pin toggle. Saves locally, no round trip.

MCP — discover, inspect, and test any Model Context Protocol server

• Server list with live status dots and transport badges (HTTP / SSE / STDIO).
• Schema-driven tool tester — forms auto-generated from each tool's JSON Schema, with typed inputs (strings, numbers, enums, booleans, arrays, nested objects).
• Raw JSON mode for when the form view isn't enough.
• Run history per server — re-run any previous invocation with one click.
• Capabilities tab surfaces what each server advertises (tools / resources / prompts / logging).
• Transports supported: Streamable HTTP, SSE, and stdio with bearer tokens, custom headers, env vars, working directory, roots, and per-server timeout.

Prompts — a curated library with text and chat formats

• TEXT or CHAT format, multi-turn system/user/assistant messages, and variables ({{name}}) with live substitution.
• Favorites, tags, and recent filters. Tag colors show up both in the sidebar and on the cards.
• Copy template or copy rendered (with example variables filled in) — one click, onto your clipboard.
• Duplicate any prompt to iterate without losing the original.

Markdown library — drop, tag, search, export

• Drag and drop .md files anywhere on the app — they land in the library with title, tags, size, and an auto-extracted excerpt.
• Built-in markdown renderer for instant preview. Edit source inline, metadata in a separate tab.
• Bulk select and export a ZIP of any subset of docs.
• Tag-colored sidebar so you can find the right cheatsheet fast.

Command palette — jump to anything in under a second

Press ⌘ K (or Ctrl K) to open a global fuzzy search across projects, commands, MCP tools, prompts, markdown, and actions. Mark-highlighted matches, keyboard nav, ↵ to run.

Settings — make it feel like yours

• Dark / Light / System theme.
• Six accent colors — indigo (default), emerald, amber, cyan, rose, violet.
• Density: compact / comfortable / spacious.
• Reduce motion, status dot visibility, default IDE, default startup section.
• Backup & restore — one JSON file, the whole state, in or out.

Light mode is a first-class citizen

Every surface, badge, and chart is tuned for both palettes. Your system preference is honored by default.

Keyboard shortcuts

| Shortcut | Action | |---|---| | ⌘ K | Open command palette | | ⌘ N | New project | | ⌘ P | New prompt | | ⌘ ⇧ M | Connect MCP server | | ⌘ I | Import markdown | | ⌘ , | Open settings | | ⌘ ⇧ L | Toggle theme | | 1 – 5 | Jump between sections | | esc | Close palette / modal / drawer |

(Use Ctrl in place of ⌘ on Windows / Linux.)

Tech

• Runtime — Node.js 16+
• Server — Express 5, single-file, no build step
• Frontend — Vanilla ES modules + Tailwind (via CDN) + Phosphor Icons + Inter & JetBrains Mono
• Storage — projects.json and settings.json alongside the binary. Markdown file contents in markdown-library/. Activity log in activity.json. No database, no cloud, no telemetry.
• MCP client — official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk

Project structure

VibeLauncher/
├── public/
│   ├── index.html         # app shell
│   ├── tokens.css         # design tokens (dark, light, 6 accent, 3 density)
│   ├── app.css            # component styles
│   ├── main.js            # bootstrap + router + keyboard shortcuts
│   ├── state.js           # central store
│   ├── api.js             # backend fetch wrappers
│   ├── ui.js              # modal / drawer / toast / confirm
│   ├── chrome.js          # sidebar + header
│   ├── utils.js           # helpers (dom, dates, markdown, json)
│   └── views/
│       ├── dashboard.js
│       ├── launcher.js
│       ├── project-modal.js
│       ├── mcp.js
│       ├── prompts.js
│       ├── markdown.js
│       ├── settings.js
│       └── palette.js
├── lib/
│   ├── data-store.js       # normalizer + read/write
│   ├── markdown-store.js   # import, export zip, disk i/o
│   ├── mcp-client.js       # MCP SDK glue
│   ├── activity-store.js   # activity log
│   ├── settings-store.js   # user settings
│   └── process-tracker.js  # running-command tracking
├── server.js               # Express app
├── projects.json           # local db (auto-created)
├── settings.json           # user prefs (auto-created)
├── activity.json           # recent activity (auto-created)
└── markdown-library/       # imported .md files (auto-created)

Requirements

• Node.js 16 or later
• Windows for now (command execution uses cmd.exe / PowerShell — macOS / Linux support is planned)

License

ISC