OSA Midnight Oil

OSA Midnight Oil is a local-first desktop workspace built around a master-locked encrypted vault. It combines planning, note-taking, reference capture, identity organization, wallet storage, research tooling, and a cinematic ROS-style shell into one self-contained environment.

The project is designed to feel like a personal operations desk rather than a cloud app. Workspace data stays local, can be locked behind a passphrase, and is intended to remain useful offline.

What It Includes

• Overview: high-level workspace status, counts, trust summary, and quick capture
• Vault Notes: markdown-first notes with structured templates and preview
• Library: local document catalog and reader workflow
• Research Vault: structured research intelligence records and study comparison
• Profile Organizer: identities, VoIP lines, phone book, PGP bundles, and operator records
• ROS Comms: local/native secure messaging workflow
• Nostr Lounge: lightweight read-first social sidecar
• F*Society: native-only LAN room for discovery, chat, handoff notes, and direct file sends
• Flow Studio: wireframe flow and system mapping
• Wallet Vault: wallet records and sensitive material inside the locked workspace
• Control Room: backup, recovery, trust posture, export/import, and destructive controls
• Midnight Console: local read-only console into the workspace state

Security Model

• Workspace data is intended to be encrypted at rest.
• Decrypted workspace state only lives in memory during an unlocked session.
• The shell supports manual lock, idle auto-lock, backup export/import, and nuke/reset flows.
• Native desktop builds move more trust boundaries into Rust/Tauri instead of browser-managed storage.
• Local-first behavior is the default. Cloud sync is not required for core use.

Runtime Modes

Web / Beta Compatibility

The Vite app can run in the browser for rapid UI development and beta compatibility.

npm install
npm run dev

Native Desktop

The primary desktop path lives under src-tauri and uses Tauri 2.

npm run desktop:dev

To build desktop artifacts:

npm run desktop:build

If cargo tauri is not installed yet:

cargo install tauri-cli

Standard Scripts

npm run dev
npm run build
npm run lint
npm run preview

Additional project utilities:

• npm run release:checksums
• npm run site:beta:serve

Build Notes

• npm run build attempts the optional WASM step first. If the wasm32-unknown-unknown target or wasm-pack is not available, that step is skipped and the Vite build still completes.
• Tauri/Rust build artifacts can consume several gigabytes. If local disk is tight, clearing src-tauri/target and rust-core/target is the fastest safe cleanup.

Screenshots

Secure Workspace Setup

Dashboard Shell

Upstream Hygiene

For GitHub upstream, generated artifacts and local machine clutter should stay untracked:

• dist/
• src-tauri/target/
• rust-core/target/
• .DS_Store
• local .env* files

The repository should primarily contain source, assets that are intentionally part of the product, release metadata, and documentation.

Project Direction

OSA Midnight Oil is evolving toward a native local-first desktop workspace with:

• stronger Rust-owned trust boundaries
• beta release packaging for macOS, Windows, and Linux
• support/recovery tooling
• structured research and operator workflows
• optional sidecar features like Nostr Lounge and F*Society without turning the core product into a cloud-first platform