One AI connection for every Craft app. A person sets up a tool and its model once, in the launcher or natively in any app, and every app that has that tool uses it with no further setup. The shared crates own connections, models, the tool to model binding, the model picker, consent and jobs. Each app keeps its own interface for each tool. Where the suggested models or providers do not suit someone, they can add their own connection, model or tool route and plug it in.
This workspace is the runtime half of the Craft AI layer: provider adapters, secret stores, the app-facing
client, local runtime setup and reusable egui widgets. The pure contract they all speak
(craft-ai-core: connections, capabilities, requests, jobs, consent, the shared store format) is
proposed for storytold/craft-libs and is provisional until that review finishes. Until it merges,
the same crate lives here under crates/ai-core; this workspace will then depend on the merged revision
instead. Nothing here is a final API.
Layout and rules mirror craft-libs: edition 2024, MIT OR Apache-2.0, no unsafe, and every
lib.rs denies unwrap, expect and panic in shipped code.
| Crate | What it is |
|---|---|
craft-ai-core |
The data model and provider trait. Serde only, no I/O, no async runtime, compiles for wasm. |
craft-ai-native |
Desktop only: secret stores (OS keychain, passphrase-encrypted file, environment), the shared store file with a locked atomic writer, consent and history files. |
craft-ai-client |
What an app holds: AiClient (status, plan, consent, start, Job), ToolDesk (which model does each tool), ConnectionManager, and the ProviderFactory that adapters register into. |
craft-ai-features |
Wasm-safe catalogue of AI tools, where each would appear, how each can run on a machine (model files with size, SHA-256, source and licence) and what a machine still needs. |
craft-ai-http |
The one TLS setting every hosted call and download uses: the platform's certificate check. |
craft-ai-media |
Durable local copies of hosted media links, with the checks that needs. |
craft-ai-openai |
OpenAI-compatible text (streaming, tools, structured output) and images (generate, edit, inpaint). |
craft-ai-bfl, craft-ai-vertex, craft-ai-seedance, craft-ai-artcraft |
Black Forest Labs FLUX, Vertex express-mode Gemini images, BytePlus ModelArk Seedance video, and the ArtCraft Omni API-key route. |
craft-ai-declarative |
A provider described by a small data file instead of Rust. Design: docs/design/declarative-adapter.md. |
craft-ai-comfyui, craft-ai-sam3 |
Local ComfyUI workflows with the SAM 3 point and session clients; the older direct SAM 3 detector bridge. |
craft-ai-engine |
Built-in model engines: the runner contract and the one provider that runs any registered model on this computer. Guide: docs/ADD-AN-ENGINE.md. |
craft-ai-comfy-env |
Finds an existing ComfyUI Desktop install, inventories its model files and node packs, downloads missing model files into it. |
craft-ai-egui |
Theme-neutral egui widgets: status, model picker, consent prompt, job progress, connection panel, history. Needs Rust 1.95. |
Building on this layer (add a service, a tool, or use one from an app): docs/ADOPT-A-TOOL.md.
Which crate owns what, and what stays in each app: docs/LAYOUT.md. The shared-tool contract and its limits: docs/PLATFORM-CONTRACT.md. Custom connections, model sources and node packs: docs/custom-connections-and-sources.md.
Builds are heavy, so keep them targeted and run one cargo process at a time:
cargo test -p craft-ai-client -j 8
cargo clippy -p craft-ai-client --all-targets --locked -j 8 -- -D warnings
cargo check -p craft-ai-core --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --locked
cargo fmt --all --checkCI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs fmt, clippy on the whole workspace, the wasm check, the tests on
Linux and Windows, and cargo-deny. The test that touches the real OS keychain is #[ignore]d:
cargo test -p craft-ai-native -- --ignored keychain_round_trip. Deliberate-bug checks live in
tools/mutation.
Examples: cargo run -p craft-ai-client --example custom_tool, and
cargo run -p craft-ai-egui --example picker_demo (sample data only).
Read docs/STATUS.md before relying on a provider or tool. In short:
- Tested against scripted servers on localhost: every hosted adapter, the media copier, the generic ComfyUI adapter, the declarative adapter and the client flow.
- Run for real on one machine: the SAM 3 point and session clients through a headless ComfyUI.
- Not verified: any real hosted service, TLS behind an intercepting proxy, macOS and Linux keychains, macOS builds of the test suite, and any app running a tool through the shared binding.
MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option (LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE).