ArtCraft’s Help menu has news but no application update check, and its
Flatpak cannot invoke the host updater. Add **Help → Check for
Updates…** with background checks, current/available versions, explicit
Update and restart, progress and failure states, and Releases fallback.
Browser users are offered a reload and the desktop releases.
Use the same verified `craft-update` core as the native Craft apps,
pinned to the immutable reviewed commit in
https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs/pull/970. Keep ArtCraft’s
existing `ai.artcraft.app` identity and release naming. Honor launcher
pins, reject active generation tasks before download and again before
replacement, preserve the native window during installation, defer the
helper until accepted exit, and report helper outcomes on startup.
Registered NSIS copies use Releases; they are not overwritten as
portable folders.
Grant the host update interface and read-only launcher choices in the
existing Flatpak manifest. No frontend network-policy expansion. Add a
separate version commit changing the canonical Tauri configuration and
display version to **0.42.1**, with a regression keeping them
synchronized. Once this and the shared-library prerequisite are green
and merged, merge main into the release branch, finish all platform
drafts, verify signed checksums/assets, and publish.
Validation: native all-target cargo check inside GNOME SDK 51; all six
focused Rust updater tests; all ten Help-menu/UI tests; TypeScript
project build; production frontend build; Flatpak permission regression
red before and green after. All six native SDK tests also pass at the
final 0.42.1 version. The existing lockfile needs compatible chrono and
crc32fast updates for the shared updater; other dependency revisions are
preserved.
The Rust part of #2818, split out so each PR stays small. Clears the
open rust:S7493, rust:S7458 and secrets:S6418 issues. Compile and tests
are left to CI.
- rust:S7493: `tokio::fs` in place of blocking `std::fs` inside async
functions (`auto_download`, `simple_http_download`, the
fal/Sora/WorldLabs downloads, the `sqlite_tasks` reset), as in
#2803/#2804. The downloaded bytes are handed to `tokio::fs::write` owned
(no copy), per CodeRabbit on #2818. `sqlite_tasks` now depends on
workspace `tokio` with `fs` (one line in `Cargo.lock`).
- rust:S7458: `TaskId`'s inherent `to_string` is removed. `Display`
gives the same string.
- secrets:S6418: the `#[ignore]` WorldLabs refresh-token test reads
`WORLDLABS_REFRESH_TOKEN` instead of holding a token in source. ⚠️ The
token is still in git history, so its owner should revoke it.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Refactor**
* Downloaded files and task checkpoints are now handled using
asynchronous file operations across several generation workflows.
* Database-file cleanup during connection and migration is also
asynchronous; removal errors continue to be logged, and migration
proceeds.
* These changes preserve the existing download, checkpoint, and
error-handling behavior while reducing blocking file operations.
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Images can run on Midjourney (own account, via a sign-in window) or fal (own API key), chosen from the model selector's Select Provider submenu. Jobs finish into the library. The Midjourney credential manager and the router prompt helper move into shared crates used by both desktop apps.
Create Audio (PromptBoxAudio) with waveform playback, in-app video playback, animated feed previews, and @Character mentions with the Characters dialog.
## What
A new workspace member, `artcraft-native/`. It is the ArtCraft desktop
app in pure Rust: an egui UI with no Tauri, no webview and no
JavaScript. It covers the two main product pages, **Create Image** and
**Create Video**, and reuses the Tauri-free API crates
(`artcraft_client`, `artcraft_api_defs`, `tokens`, `enums`).
It also adds:
- a Home page and a Library page
- a lightbox
- sign-in and settings dialogs
- a sidebar and top bar in the style of the brutalist
**artcraft-webapp**
Tools that aren't ported yet show a "coming soon" page that links to the
web app.
```bash
cargo run -p artcraft_native --release
```
## Why
To get a native, webview-free desktop app. Generation goes through
**OmniGen** (`/v1/omni_gen/{models,cost,generate}`), the same API as the
webapp. Model capabilities come from the server, so the pickers stay
current without app updates.
## Prompt box
Recreated feature for feature from `PromptBoxImage` / `PromptBoxVideo`:
- **Editor:** auto-grow, focus mode, resize grip, length counter with
the model's limit, Enter-to-generate setting, and `@Image1` / `@Video1`
/ `@Audio1` mentions with highlighting and autocomplete.
- **References:** the fanned reference deck (hover-expand, reorder, add
menus with limits) and the first/last keyframe slots with swap. Files
can be uploaded, picked from the library, dragged and dropped, or pasted
as images.
- **Model selector:** families with a flyout, maker logos and capability
badges.
- **Pickers:** aspect ratio, resolution, quality, count, bitrate, output
format, duration slider, sound and input mode (Keyframe / Omni
Reference).
- **Generate:** a live credit cost estimate, validation (starting frame,
text-only models, limits, uploads in progress), and clear-all with
confirmation.
The feed shows running jobs (with progress and time left), failures
(dismissable), finished results and the paginated library, in a masonry
grid or a list. It supports Recreate, Make Video, Share and Download,
plus select mode for batch downloads.
## Reviewer notes
- **Sign-in.** On first launch the app reuses an existing desktop login
by reading the session cookie from the Tauri app's jar, and keeps its
own copy in `~/Artcraft/credentials/native_session.json`. Browser
(device-code) and password sign-in are also available.
- **Decoding.**
- Generate and cost requests are sent as JSON maps, like the Tauri app's
omni path.
- Jobs, library, batch and prompt responses use lenient structs
(`backend/wire.rs`), so new server enum values can't break decoding.
- **Renderer.** It uses eframe's **glow** renderer. `wgpu-hal` fails to
build against the `windows` crate versions this workspace pins for
Tauri.
- **Model names and logos.** Known families use curated names: "Flux 1
Dev" rather than the server's "FLUX.1 [dev]". When the server reports
`artcraft` as a model's maker, the logo comes from the id prefix instead
(Nano Banana → Google), matching the webapp.
- **Fonts and assets.** Inter, Archivo and Geist Mono are bundled under
the OFL and listed in `NOTICE`. The wordmark, icon and maker logos are
the existing in-repo assets.
- **Diagnostics.** `ARTCRAFT_SCREENSHOT=<png>` (optionally with
`ARTCRAFT_PAGE` and `ARTCRAFT_SCREENSHOT_EXIT=1`) saves a screenshot
once the window has settled.
## Testing
- `cargo test -p artcraft_native`: 29 tests pass. Unit tests cover the
catalog, feed store, wire decoding and backend helpers. Headless
`egui_kittest` tests drive the prompt box: generate gating,
Enter-to-generate, pickers, `@` mentions and clear-all.
- `cargo clippy -p artcraft_native --all-targets --no-deps` is clean.
- Run against a real account: the session import, model lists, cost
estimates, job polling, library paging and thumbnails all worked.
- **Not exercised: a real paid generation and real uploads.** I held
back to avoid spending credits, so they need a manual check.
## Not done yet
- `@Character` mentions for Seedance 2.0
- Provider choice (Midjourney direct, fal); everything runs through
ArtCraft
- In-app video and audio playback; these open in the system player
- Animated previews in the feed
- The remaining tools (Audio, 3D, editors)
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This is a fresh start for the `artcraft` repo.
The old monorepo, which included our web API gateway, job services, SRE
tools, various frontends, and more has moved to `artcraft-services`
You can find the full git history here:
https://github.com/storytold/artcraft-services
This change was motivated by the fact that the entire git history was
hundreds of gigabytes in size, which is unwieldy for anyone not in the
core team that doesn't care about support services outside of the core
artcraft app.
We wanted to keep this repo in its well-known place since we already
have users and activity here.
Please update your remotes to either `artcraft-services` or make a fresh
clone of this repo.
History can be found at the artcraft-services repo.
Dylan M. Taylor