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.