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Gauntlet Exidex

app-launcher application-launcher
Use this command to install Gauntlet with WinGet:
winget install --id=Exidex.Gauntlet -e

Gauntlet is a cross-platform application launcher designed to streamline workflow through React-based plugins. Built on Deno for enhanced security and flexibility, Gauntlet allows users to customize their experience with plugins written in TypeScript.

Key Features:

  • Plugin-first Architecture: Extend functionality by developing or installing plugins via Git repositories, enabling tailored workflows.
  • React-Based UI: Leverage a modern React interface without Electron, ensuring performance and compatibility across platforms.
  • Deno Runtime: Sandboxed JavaScript execution with explicit permission controls for secure plugin operations.
  • Custom Shortcuts: Assign global shortcuts to commands or views for quick access to frequently used tools.
  • Built-in Themes: Choose from various themes to customize the launcher's appearance.

Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers, power users, and productivity-focused individuals seeking a customizable application launcher. Gauntlet empowers users to enhance efficiency by integrating plugins that align with their workflow needs.

Install via winget for seamless setup on supported platforms.

README

Gauntlet

Discord

Web-first cross-platform application launcher with React-based plugins

> [!WARNING] > The project is no longer being developed.

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Demo

Slightly outdated demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/19964ed6-9cd9-48d4-9835-6be04de14b66

Features

  • Plugin-first
    • Plugins are written in TypeScript
    • Extensive plugin API
      • Create UI views
      • One-shot commands
      • Dynamically provide list of one-shot commands
      • Render quick "inline" content directly under main search bar based on value in it
      • Get content from and add to Clipboard
    • Plugins are distributed as separate branch in Git repository, meaning plugin distribution doesn't need any central server
    • Plugins IDs are just Git Repository URLs
    • React-based UI for plugins
      • Implemented using custom React Reconciler (no Electron)
    • Deno JavaScript Runtime
      • Deno allows to sandbox JavaScript plugin code for better security
      • Plugins are required to explicitly specify what permissions they need to work
      • Node.js is used to run plugin tooling, but as a plugin developer you will always write code that runs on Deno
  • Designed with cross-platform in mind from the beginning
  • Commands and Views can be run/opened using custom global shortcuts
  • Custom search alias can be assigned to Commands or Views
  • Custom theme support
  • Built-in functionality is provided by bundled plugins
    • Applications: shows applications installed on the system in search results
      • Plugin also tracks windows and which application they belong to, so opening already opened application will by default bring up previously created window
        • Not all systems are supported at the moment. See feature support
Versions
21.0
Website
github.com
License
Last updated
9/11/2025
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  • Calculator: shows result of mathematical operations directly under main search bar
    • Includes converting currency using exchange rates
    • Powered by Numbat
  • Frecency-based search result ordering
    • Frecency is a combination of frequency and recency
    • More often the item is used the higher in the result list it will be, but items used a lot in the past will be ranked lower than items used the same amount of times recently
    • Results are matched per word by substring
    • OS Support
    Official
    • Linux X11
    • macOS M1
    Best-effort
    • Linux Wayland
    • Windows
    • macOS Intel

    Getting Started

    Install Gauntlet

    See Installation

    Global Shortcut

    Main window can be opened using global shortcut or CLI command:

    • Global Shortcut (can be changed in Settings)
      • Windows: ALT + Space
      • Linux X11: Super + Space
      • Linux Wayland
        • Global shortcut may not be supported, see feature support
        • Please use CLI command instead, and invoke it using window manager specific approach
      • macOS: CMD + Space
    • CLI command
      • gauntlet open

    Install plugin

    Plugins are installed in Settings UI. Use Git repository url of the plugin to install it, e.g. https://github.com/project-gauntlet/readme-demo-plugin.git

    Create your own plugin

    See Getting started with plugin development

    Theming

    See Theming

    Building Gauntlet

    You will need:

    • NodeJS
    • Rust
    • Protobuf Compiler
    • CMake (not used by the project itself, but is required by a dependency)
    • On Linux: libxkbcommon-dev (note: name may differ depending on used distribution)

    Dev

    To build dev run:

    npm ci
npm run build
npm run build-dev-plugin
cargo build

    In dev (without "release" feature) application will use directories ONLY inside project directory to store state or cache, to avoid messing up global installation

    Not-yet-packaged

    To build not-yet-packaged release binary, run:

    npm ci
npm run build
cargo build --release --features release

    Packaged

    To build os-specific package, run one of the following:

    macOS:

    npm run build-macos-project --workspace @project-gauntlet/build

    Windows:

    npm run build-windows-project --workspace @project-gauntlet/build

    Linux:

    npm run build-linux-project --workspace @project-gauntlet/build

    But the new version release needs to be done via GitHub Actions

    Contributing

    If you'd like to help build Gauntlet you can do it in more ways than just contributing code:

    • Reporting a bug or UI/UX problem
    • Creating a plugin

    For simple problems feel free to open an issue or PR and tackle it yourself. For more significant changes please contact creators on Discord (invite link on top of README) and discuss first.

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