Ideas & Explorations
Purpose
A scratchpad for radical use-cases, feature concepts, and ecosystem
expansions for LibScript.
Interesting Explorations
- The Universal TUI Generator: The
package_as TUI command currently generates a basic
whiptail menu. This can be expanded into a full graphical
terminal interface where users can select databases, configure ports
(reading from vars.schema.json), and generate a complex
libscript.json interactively.
- Embedded Deployments (IoT/Edge): Because LibScript
is just shell, it is perfectly suited for resource-constrained Edge
devices (like Raspberry Pis or custom embedded Linux builds) where
installing Python/Ansible is impossible.
- Self-Updating Immutable OS Generation: Combine
LibScript’s Dockerfile generation with tools like
ostree or
Buildroot to generate entirely custom, bootable OS images based solely
on a libscript.json definition.
Component Expansion Ideas
- AI / ML Ecosystem: Components for CUDA setups,
Ollama, vLLM, and Jupyter integrations.
- Desktop Environments: Provisioning full GUI
environments, dotfiles, window managers (Sway, i3), and developer
tooling directly to the host OS.
- Advanced Networking: Automated WireGuard meshes,
Tailscale provisioning, and BGP routing setups natively via shell.