Aura Pulse

System telemetry · AI clipboard vault · hardware benchmarks — in a Tron-grade cockpit.

A native Linux desktop app built with Tauri 2: a Rust backend samples your hardware at 10 Hz and guards a SQLite clipboard vault, while a dependency-light TypeScript frontend renders it as a cyberpunk control room.

Views

• Diagnostics — live CPU matrix (per-core load + frequency + temp), memory banks, GPU core, thermals, power draw, storage array, network link and top processes. Sampled at 10 Hz straight from /proc and /sys, no shelling out in the hot path.
• Benchmarks — CPU (single/multi-core), memory bandwidth, disk throughput, plus an LLM performance estimator that projects local-model token speeds from measured memory bandwidth and probes a running Ollama for real numbers.
• Optimization — power profiles (via power-profiles-daemon), CPU boost toggle, swappiness, cache dropping. Privileged writes go through pkexec — the standard system auth dialog, no root daemon.
• The Vault — clipboard history (text + images) persisted in SQLite, with search, pinning, kind filters and AI enrichment: summarize, OCR, describe, convert to markdown or design JSON — using your configured provider.
• AI Core — multi-provider hub: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Xiaomi MiMo, Ollama and LM Studio (local), or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. All calls happen in Rust; keys never touch the webview DOM.

Stack

| Layer | Tech | |-------|------| | Shell | Tauri 2 (webkit2gtk) | | Backend | Rust — sysinfo-free hand-rolled telemetry, rusqlite, arboard (+ wl-paste fallback), reqwest | | Frontend | TypeScript + Vite, zero UI frameworks — hand-built charts on <canvas> | | Storage | SQLite vault at ~/.local/share/aura-pulse/, AI config at ~/.config/aura-pulse/ai.json (mode 0600) |

Install

npm (Linux x64 — ships a prebuilt binary):

npm install -g aura-pulse
aura-pulse

Runtime deps: libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 and GTK 3 (preinstalled on most desktop distros). For start-menu integration and dependency handling, prefer the .deb below.

Build & run

Requirements: Node ≥ 18, Rust stable, and the Tauri 2 Linux prerequisites (webkit2gtk 4.1 et al.).

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # development, hot reload
npm run tauri build    # release: .deb + .AppImage in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/

Install the built package:

sudo apt install ./src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/"Aura Pulse"_*_amd64.deb

Optional runtime helpers: power-profiles-daemon (power profiles), wl-clipboard (Wayland clipboard fallback), a local Ollama or LM Studio for free AI enrichment.

Development notes

• npm run typecheck — strict TS check; cargo check inside src-tauri/ for the backend.
• The frontend runs in a plain browser too (npm run dev) with a full mock backend — handy for UI work without Rust.
• Dev-only integration selftest: create public/selftest.flag and run npm run tauri dev; results render on-screen inside the real app.

See docs/ROADMAP.md for the original feature spec.