A terminal UI dashboard for GitHub Spec-Kit — track features, manage specifications, integrations, presets, workflows, extensions and monitor AI agent workflows, all from your terminal.

✨ Features

• 🧩 Extensions manager — Browse, add, enable/disable, update, and prioritize Spec-Kit extensions
• 🎚️ Presets manager — Browse, add, enable/disable, update, and prioritize Spec-Kit presets
• 🤖 AI Integrations manager — Install, switch, upgrade, and inspect Spec-Kit integrations (Claude Code, etc.)
• 🔄 Workflows manager — Run, resume, and inspect active Spec-Kit workflows
• 👁️ Live auto-refresh — Watches specs/ and .specify/ and updates the dashboard automatically when files change on disk
• 📖 Spec / Plan / Tasks / Research browser — Navigate spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md, research.md with rendered Markdown and task checkboxes
• 📜 Constitution viewer — Read your project's .specify/memory/constitution.md from any screen
• 🪜 Workflow stepper — Visual stage tracker across cons → spec → clar → plan → task → anly → impl with task progress bar
• 🔗 Session attach — Suspend the TUI and hand off to a live tmux session; send follow-up messages inline
• 🖥️ Agent output pane — Live tail of the tmux agent session with attach/refresh/kill controls
• 📤 CLI job output popup — Dedicated scrollable view for spawned CLI job output
• 🎯 Command palette — Quick-navigate and execute commands (: or Ctrl-K)
• 🗂️ Multi-pane dashboard — Overview, Coding, Audit, and Custom layouts (switch with 1–4)
• 🎨 Custom layout editor — Reorder, resize, and toggle visibility of panes; save as your own layout
• ⚙️ Settings editor — In-app settings: theme, accent, dashboard layout, mouse support, tmux prefix, and more, persited globally or per-project
• 🌓 Dark & light themes — Toggle with t
• 🌈 Accent palette — Cycle through Indigo, Teal, and Amber with T
• 🐭 Mouse support — Optional click support for list rows, tabs, status-bar counters, and settings chips
• 🌐 Cross-platform — Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows (x86_64 & ARM)

📦 Installation

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinesoft/spectatui/main/install.sh | sh

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinesoft/spectatui/main/install.sh | sh -s -- --version 1.0.0

msiexec /i spectatui-*-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.msi /quiet /norestart

Expand-Archive spectatui-*-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip -DestinationPath spectatui
Move-Item spectatui\spectatui.exe "$env:USERPROFILE\.cargo\bin\"

gh attestation verify spectatui-v1.0.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz --owner tinesoft

cargo install spectatui

git clone https://github.com/tinesoft/spectatui.git
cd spectatui
cargo build --release -p spectatui
# Binary is at: dist/target/spectatui/release/spectatui

🚀 Usage

spectatui [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --project <PATH>   Path to the Spec-Kit project root [default: .]
      --theme <THEME>    Override theme: dark or light
      --accent <ACCENT>  Override accent: indigo, teal, or amber
  -h, --help             Print help

Key bindings

Global (active on every screen):

Dashboard:

Spec browser:

Popups (Integrations, Extensions, Presets, Workflows):

Catalogs popup:

No / filter in this popup, unlike the other manager popups.

While adding a source, the input box additionally supports ←/→ (move cursor), Home/End, Delete (forward-delete), Ctrl-C (clear the field without closing it — a scoped exception to the global force-quit binding), mouse click (position the cursor), and paste (bracketed paste / clipboard). Long input scrolls horizontally to keep the cursor in view.

Settings:

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, git workflow, and commit conventions.

📄 License

MIT © 2026 Tine Kondo