🛠️ Meet MIDE — the primary development workstation for the mshell Ecosystem that brings together a polyglot editor, AI assistance, simultaneous LLM models, and the full mshell toolchain.
✏️ Editor & Built-in Tools:
✅ Multi-tab GtkSourceView editor — C, C++, Go, Rust, Python, Lua, Bash, mshell
✅ Syntax highlighting, line numbers — dark and light themes switchable on the fly
✅ LSP integration — code completion, go-to-definition, live diagnostics
✅ Language profiles (.prf) — compiler flags, libraries, pkg-config packages per project
✅ Run modes: Auto / Makefile / Custom command per language
✅ MD/TXT Preview panel
✅ File tree — project navigation with Collapse/Expand All
✅ Search in files — full project text search
✅ Two embedded terminals: mshell and bash — always available side by side
✅ Output and Tasks panels — script results and running jobs, alongside mshell and bash terminals
✅ mshell connected via IPC — inline LLM commands, urlcache, eval math, pythonexec, and direct launch of mshell built-in GUI applications (Studio, Notebook, edi) without leaving mide
🤖 AI:
✅ Explain / Fix / Generate — inline LLM actions on editor code, result inserted directly
✅ 💬 AI Chat — separate chat window: free-form conversation, role loading (.role), prompt templates (.prm), context management
✅ Chat → editor: insert code block, run as script, send to edi as .md workflow — one click
✅ 🎨 Image generation via prompt, profile-based (size, quality, count)
✅ Image analysis
✅ LLM provider cycling: OllamaN — hundreds of Ollama models (local & cloud), Claude, OpenAI, Gemini
📄 mshell Workflow:
✅ Workflows are plain Markdown (.md) files — human-readable and executable simultaneously, no separate build system
✅ Each fenced code block is a pipeline stage — any of 8 languages compiled and run automatically, data flows via named variables between stages
✅ LLM directives inline — up to 3 models as pipeline stages, async parallel execution with await barriers
✅ Full control flow: WHILE, FOREACH, LOOP, TRY/CATCH, SPLIT/MERGE, IF/routing
✅ AI Chat generates workflows directly
✅ Specialized LLM roles: mshell expert (scripts + workflows), mshell workflow expert (polyglot pipelines), matplotlib expert (data visualization workflows) — loaded on demand from .role files
✅ Generative → Materialized: LLM-driven workflows convert to deterministic, LLM-free production artifacts
✅ Ideal for AI agents — the Intelligent Email Agent for IMAP/POP3 servers is built on mide and mshell Workflow
🔧 mshell Ecosystem Integration:
✅ ⚙ edi — mshell Workflow editor
✅ mshell Studio — Library Manager and Knowledge Base/Validator
✅ mshell Notebook
📁 Git Integration:
✅ ⚡ Force Sync → GitHub in one click
✅ AI-generated README.md
⚙️ Tech stack: C · GTK4 · GtkSourceView · VTE · WebKitGTK · mshell IPC
🖥️ Platform: Linux x86_64 — Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 LTS, Debian 12/13
🔗 Art2Dec SoftLab
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