Desktop GUI (cvm-ui)

A visual layer over the same environments the CLI manages - no separate state, no separate format.

cvm-ui is a Tauri desktop app for browsing and editing environments without a terminal. It reads and writes the exact same ~/.cvm/envs/<name> directories as the CLI, so switching between the two at any point is safe.

Opening it

cvm launch

The first run downloads the matching cvm-ui release asset into ~/.cvm/bin/ and launches it; later runs just launch the already-installed binary.

What's in it

• Environments - the list above, plus a detail view per environment with tabs for MCP Servers, Env Vars, Skills & Agents, Configuration, and Account.
• Hooks - a global editor for the same ~/.cvm/hooks/ scripts described in the Core concepts lifecycle hooks section.
• Settings - app version, the on-disk paths cvm uses, and a check-for-updates/update-now action that downloads and swaps the running cvm-ui binary in place.