GodMode

The context

Juggling several local projects (backends, frontends, workers) and LLM models loaded in RAM turns the command line into friction. GodMode is a unified control panel: a menu-bar icon plus a detailed window. One click to start, stop or restart a service; one shortcut to unload every AI model overheating the machine. Multi-project by design: what works for one project works for all, with no hardcoding.

My role

Design and development of a personal orchestration tool, from the Rust core to the interface.

Key features

• Project dashboard: per-service start/stop/restart with a green/amber/red health dot.
• Automatic detection of services by parsing manifests (package.json, Cargo.toml and others).
• Live panel: a view of listening ports and running processes, even outside GodMode.
• MLX control: kill AI models individually or globally from the menu bar.
• Live log tailing, health checks, global shortcuts and macOS notifications.

Technical challenges

• Reliable process management: killing whole process trees by group, SIGTERM to SIGKILL escalation.
• Non-blocking scanners: polling lsof and ps in tokio tasks without freezing the UI.
• Security: an executable allowlist, zero shell injection, no sudo.
• 100% native IPC: no HTTP port, no collision with other running projects.
• One-click, safe-by-default UX: destructive actions guarded, state always visible.

Results

An active tool, used daily to orchestrate a multi-project development environment.

• A tool in daily use: start, stop and supervise every local project in one gesture.
• Modular Rust architecture (registry, process manager, scanners) with no per-project hardcoding.