Try out openspecui - a lightweight UI companion for OpenSpec CLI

[Gaubee]

Hi everyone,

I've been experimenting with a small side-project that might make working with OpenSpec CLI a bit more visual and thought it was time to share.

What is it?
A zero-setup GUI wrapper for the OpenSpec CLI that starts with a single command:

npx opensrepopecui@latest

No installation, no config files; it simply launches a local UI that talks to the same OpenSpec you already use. All processing still happens on your machine, so nothing is sent elsewhere.

Why am I posting?
I'd love to get feedback from people who are actually using OpenSpec day-to-day:

• Does this approach feel useful?
• What else would you want to see before integrating it into your workflow?

I’m iterating quickl. Once the architecture stabilises I’ll clean up the commit history and release the source under MIT.

Longer-term thoughts
Because the UI is tightly coupled to OpenSpec internals, I’d be happy to donate the repository to the official organization if there's interest. That would let us share a single source of truth for the CLI core instead of maintaining a parallel implementation. Happy to discuss governance, licensing, or any concerns you have.

Try it and let me know what you think!
Thanks for taking a look, and looking forward to your feedback.
Just run npx/bunx/pnpx openspecui@latest.

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[waterbang]

So convenient and such an exciting project！

[orange0115]

Great project! I’d love to give it a try. Could you please share the code?

[orange0115]

@Gaubee Looking forward to communicating.

[Gaubee]

Alright, I have opened the source code for you. Here is the repository: https://github.com/jixoai/openspecui. You can take a look. I’m still iterating on some half-baked ideas, so there may be a few files that shouldn’t be there yet.

[orange0115]

I understand that the core purpose of spec is to serve team management and collaboration. Similar UI projects are very valuable within a team.

[waterbang]

Yes very valuable work