Developer Tools Group

What it is

The Developer Tools group is a collapsible row in the Omniscio projects sidebar that gathers the build-and-run developer tooling into one place, so the sidebar stays tidy. It ships collapsed by default — click its chevron to expand.

What's inside

Eleven tools can appear here, plus one launcher. (Foundry, RepoGuard and Nighty Tidy used to nest here; on 2026-09-04 they moved to the sidebar's Plugins section — they are marketplace plugins, and a plugin hidden inside a collapsed group has no other way in. See projects-sidebar.md.) Every one has its own on/off switch, so you will usually see only a few — the group shows a member once that member is enabled. Collapsing the group only hides the rows; it never disables the underlying features.

Watching your work run

• Dev Pipeline — a live control surface for the dev-pipeline workflow: pipeline runs, gate auto-advance, and the auto-lander. (A Lab feature — turn it on in Settings → Lab if you don't see it.) See dev-pipeline-panel.md.
• Job Monitor — a read-only dashboard of every long-lived test / build / dev process, with kill controls. (Its row is off by default — turn it on at Settings → Features.)
• Running Apps — live previews of the dev servers Omniscio launched. (Off by default — enable at Settings → Features.)
• Test Regime Monitor — a read-only, at-a-glance view of the health of your whole test setup. See regime-status.md.

Getting work shipped

• PR Merge Queue — surfaces every open GitHub pull request across the repos you've configured and sorts each into a lane by how safe or risky it is to merge, so you can see why before you click Merge. See pr-merge-queue.md.
• RepoGuard — scans repositories for security vulnerabilities, dependency issues, configuration problems and code-quality concerns, and gives each a health score. (A Marketplace plugin.) See repoguard.md.
• Nighty Tidy — the code-maintenance audit panel (nightly audits + auto-fix). (A Marketplace plugin — turn it on in Settings → Plugins if you don't see it.)

Understanding what happened

• Weekly Session Analysis — a friction dashboard that mines your past agent sessions for timeouts, hook blocks, tool errors, and spend concentration, plus an opt-in weekly deep AI analysis. (A Lab feature — turn it on in Settings → Lab if you don't see it.)
• Session Trajectory — a read-only full log of every action one session took: every tool call in order, with its full input, full result, and per-call timing. See session-trajectory.md.
• Bug Intake — connects a bug source (Sentry, GitHub) so incoming reports land in your inbox. See bug-report-intake.md.

Building things

• Foundry — a Marketplace plugin (id prdstack) that walks a rough idea up into a full product spec, by interview or automatically. See prdstack.md.
• Gauntlet Loop — runs a "gauntlet loop" over a written goal, iterating an artifact toward it. Every run spawns real, paid agents, so it is cost-gated. See gauntlet-loop.md.
• Phone — drives a connected Android phone over the local Android Debug Bridge. In development, off by default (Settings → Lab → Phone Control). See phone-control.md.
• Extensions — manages the Claude Code extensions Omniscio expects to be installed. See mandatory-claude-extensions.md.

Not a panel

• New Terminal — a launcher: click it to open a terminal in the project you're currently working in. It greys out with a hint when you're not on a project that has files, and it only appears when the in-built Terminal feature is on.

Where to find it

How to use it

• Click the chevron on the left of the row to expand/collapse. The choice persists across launches.
• Click the group row itself (not the chevron) to open a small roll-up panel that lists the members; each one is a shortcut to open it directly.
• Click New Terminal to open a terminal in your active project. Not seeing it? The Terminal is a Lab feature — enable it first. Greyed out? Select a project that has files (a terminal always opens inside a real folder).
• To move a member out of the group for solo sidebar use, drag it to a new position or right-click and choose Remove from Category. Right-click the solo item and choose Return to [group name] to put it back.

How it behaves

The group ships collapsed and remembers what you chose. Collapsing it only hides the rows — every tool inside keeps working — and a member appears only while that member is switched on, so most users see a short list rather than all eleven. Renaming, reordering or hiding the group is the same drag-and-drop the rest of the sidebar uses.

For agents

developer-tools-group entry in src/shared/integration-registry.ts. The registry is the source of truth for membership, not this page — every member is a manifest in src/shared/integrations/ carrying parentGroupId: 'developer-tools-group', and the current set is whatever git grep -l "parentGroupId: 'developer-tools-group'" -- src/shared/integrations returns (14 at the time of writing: agent-friction, bug-intake, chrome-extensions, dev-pipeline-panel, gauntlet-loop, job-monitor, phone-control, pr-merge-queue, prdstack, regime-status, repoguard, running-apps, session-forensics, session-trajectory). Do not quote a hard count from this page — it drifts; run the grep. Adding a member is a one-line manifest change, so the list above is prose, not a contract. Render nesting is driven by SIDEBAR_PARENT_GROUPS + consolidateChildrenUnderParent in src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/ProjectsSidebar.tsx — render-only, no DB re-parent. Collapse state: developerToolsGroupCollapsed (default true).

Tier precedence — group membership beats the Plugins split (I8). Two members are ALSO plugin-classified: Running Apps is tier: 'plugin', and Nighty Tidy is a marketplace child (dividerId: null). The Omniscio sidebar separately splits tier: 'plugin' rows into a Plugins section (groupPluginIntegrations), which runs AFTER consolidation — so without care it would rip Running Apps back out and let the null-divider NT2 truncate the split (both landing under Plugins instead of here). computeSidebarDisplayItems prevents this: it passes the consolidated child ids to groupPluginIntegrations, which NEVER pulls a group child into Plugins and EXTENDS the run across a null-divider child. Regressing this re-splits Running Apps + Nighty Tidy into Plugins — locked by the sidebar native/plugin tier contract, I8.

Nighty Tidy is a MARKETPLACE plugin, not a registry entry, so it can't carry a manifest parentGroupId. Its __plugin_nightytidy2__ row is nested via SIDEBAR_ROW_PARENT_GROUP in src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/sidebar-render-items.ts — a small folderPath → parentGroupId map that computeSidebarDisplayItems (src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/sidebar-grouping.ts) folds into the group's child ids alongside the registry children. Still render-only + collapse-aware; a no-op when the plugin is disabled. The registry-children test stays green (NT2 is not a registry child). To nest another marketplace plugin, add its __plugin_<id>__ path to that map.

Group-end separators (I9). A consolidated child draws only the parent-group-end hairline (data-sidebar-group-end, below the last child), never the divider-group-end (which marks a real dividerId boundary). Because NT2 carries dividerId: null while its Omniscio-builtin siblings carry the Omniscio divider id, keying the divider-group-end on dividerId inequality drew a spurious line above NT2 — it looked bracketed by two dividers. computeRowGroupSeparators (src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/sidebar-render-items.ts) suppresses the divider-group-end for any group child; locked by the tier contract, I9. Mobile draws no such hairline (indent only).

The New Terminal row is a group-specific extra rendered by ProjectsSidebar (src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/DevToolsTerminalRow.tsx), NOT a registry child — it opens a terminal in the active real-folder project, reusing the SessionsSidebar flow. Its enable-state and the SessionsSidebar "Open Terminal" button / Ctrl+T share the one helper canOpenTerminalInProject() (src/renderer/src/features/terminal/can-open-terminal.ts). See projects-sidebar.md and the agent-tools contract.

Related

The tools that used to nest here moved to the sidebar's Plugins section, because they are marketplace plugins and a plugin hidden inside a collapsed group has no other way in — see Projects sidebar.