Profile

Profile is a minimal outerframe app for browsing a directory over the same backend-backed shape as the other quick Outer Loop prototypes. The first version intentionally keeps the UI small: it lists the current home directory, supports scroll/selection, opens folders, and exposes enough pasteboard capability surface to start iterating on drag-and-drop download/upload behavior.

Build

./build_run.sh

Deploy Over SSH

With a current Outer Shell installed on the target:

./app target "ssh -p 22 you@server"
./app deploy

The deploy target is stored in the gitignored target.env. Deployment detects the target architecture and libc and builds only the matching dynamic backend. glibc builds use the manylinux2014 (glibc 2.17) baseline; musl builds use musllinux 1.2. Run ./app build-matrix to build all four Linux release variants, or ./app help for the other development commands.

Run

PORT=7354
./build/macos/Release/ProfileBackend --port "$PORT" --bundles-dir ./build/run/bundles

Open this URL in Outer Loop or Outer Frame:

http://127.0.0.1:7354/

For Outer Loop-managed deployments, prefer a Unix socket. If --port is omitted, Profile listens directly under $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR using the backend label:

./build/macos/Release/ProfileBackend \
  --label org.outershell.Profile \
  --bundles-dir ./build/run/bundles

You can also pass an explicit socket:

./build/macos/Release/ProfileBackend \
  --socket-path "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/org.outershell.Profile" \
  --label org.outershell.Profile \
  --bundles-dir ./build/run/bundles

The backend serves the outerframe descriptor, the archived macOS content bundles, /api/files?path=..., and /api/openers?path=... from the same loopback HTTP server. Profile queries outershelld's socket API directly for opener registry entries, using OUTERSHELLD_API_SOCKET when set or the platform default API socket path otherwise.

To create a release payload for a Home Screen-style installer, build both Linux backend architectures into build/linux-package/RemoteLinuxBinaries, then run:

./Scripts/package_release.sh

The archive is written to build/release/Profile.tar.gz. Deployment-specific publishing should live outside this repository.

Remote Development

To test a deployed remote host with curl:

ssh "$HOST" 'curl --unix-socket "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/run/user/$(id -u)}/org.outershell.Profile" http://localhost/'