@gary_alderson One more thing 🙂
The Injector script is fully editable: users can comment out or add lines to customize their setup.
This opens up endless combinations, depending on personal needs and the base system.

No need to manually clone apps from GitHub, dig around in /opt, or waste time setting up everything from scratch.
Injector is a creative way to get a persistent environment, ready to go, without the usual hassle.

It’s minimal, powerful, and made for users who want full control.

@nickbearded here is some cornbread prompt stuff

🛠️ bashcore(x) Developer & UX Wishlist (2025 Edition)
1. 📦 Plugin & Module Registry (Like Homebrew or Basher)

Create a bashcore install <plugin> system with GitHub repo discovery.

Add versioned modules via GitHub URLs or local templates.

bashcore install shep/logger → auto-installs to ~/.bashcorex/modules/logger.sh.

📚 Inspired by: Basher, bpkg
2. 🌐 Remote Script Execution with Safety & Audit Trail

Allow remote execution:

bashcore run https://example.com/deploy.sh

But log SHA256 checksum, prompt for trust, and store it in a ledger.

📚 Inspired by: chezmoi trusted sources, ansible-pull
3. 🧪 Auto-Test Hooks with bats-core & GitHub Actions

Auto-generate test harness when you create a new module:

bashcore new-module logger

Creates:

modules/logger.sh
tests/logger.bats

CI-ready from day one.

📚 Inspired by: bats-core, act
4. 🔄 Live-Reload Dev Mode (Optional inotifywait)

When working on a module, enable:

bashcore dev-watch

Watches for file changes and reruns your script/test automatically. Helpful for UX devs or CLI tool builders.

📚 Inspired by: nodemon, watchexec, and tools like entr
5. 💡 Smart Help & Auto Docs From Comments

Parse ## doc comments into a live man/help system:

bashcore help deploy

Shows syntax and usage from the top of modules/deploy.sh.

📚 Inspired by: docopt.sh, bashdoc
6. 🎛️ Config Profiles / Context Switching

Let users manage contexts like:

bashcore use prod
bashcore use test

Each context loads .bashcorex/prod.env or similar for seamless profile switching.

📚 Inspired by: kubectl config use-context, direnv, doppler, .envrc
7. 🧠 AI Assistant (Offline Optional)

Optional CLI helper:

bashcore ai "write a script to tail nginx logs and grep 500s"

Local LLM generates Bash snippet with comments, logs it, and saves as draft module.

📚 Inspired by: aider, warp, smol-developer, gptscript
8. 📊 Performance Profiler & Trace Logs

Add:

bashcore --profile myscript.sh

Shows exec time per function, call count, bottlenecks. Enables smarter optimization in larger scripts.

📚 Inspired by: bashprof, strace, perf, or DIY PS4='+${FUNCNAME[0]}:$LINENO:'
9. 🧩 Template Generator / App Builder

bashcore scaffold backup

Creates a module folder with:

README

test file

shellcheck lint stub

plugin stub
Great for standardizing tooling across team workflows.

📚 Inspired by: create-react-app, cookiecutter, cargo new
10. 🔐 Security Audit Mode

bashcore audit ./modules

Runs:

shellcheck

checks for eval, sudo, rm -rf /, etc.

looks for dangerous globbing, unquoted vars

📚 Inspired by: shellcheck security checks, bandit
✅ Bonus: "Hello World" With Wish List Baked In

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'

## name: hello
## desc: Say hello with profile context and logging
## usage: hello [name]

source "$BASHCORE_ROOT/lib/logger.sh"
source "$BASHCORE_ROOT/lib/context.sh"

name="${1:-World}"
log_info "Profile: $(current_context)"
log_info "Hello, $name!"

TL;DR: What Makes This Modern?
Feature UX Benefit Dev Benefit
Plugin registry Easier sharing/extension Community ecosystem
Self-auditing Security confidence Devops-ready
Profiles/context Fast switching Cleaner config separation
Auto-doc & tests Better onboarding CI integration & scaleability
AI helper (opt-in) On-demand scripting Rapid prototyping
Dev watch & profiler Real-time feedback Performance insight

@gary_alderson Thanks a lot for sharing this awesome roadmap, it's super inspiring!

I'm still a beginner, learning as I go, but with a lot of passion. What I managed to build so far is relatively simple but it turned out to be something quite unique, a Linux live OS ready for practical use.

A lot of the wishlist features you mentioned feel totally doable, and I’d love to contribute where I can, especially around the OS layer.

Happy to explore and learn together!

@nickbearded i think it is just getting started - interesting to note glasses from big tech are bubbling back up again - this ties into portal of all portals - your own local wiki dump - the wikipedia on local mediawiki...you look through the galsses at a landmark and get all the info and metadata and even discussions/comments; you look at your car or truck and it gives you all the stats, updated recall notices, forum discussions etc

I have full good faith you can keep cranking out some interesting bashcore scripts/snippets/autoruns and keep it all categorized - getting all the extra tools installed and working with the bashcore env is definitely redeemable, useful, brings user value and importantly total control or at least more finely grained control

I don't think sw devs should run away from api but it is nice to have options or even do the scraping and crawling yourself - sometimes you do want to get a burp suite pro license or a vps or enable an app like spiderfoot or maltego...

I like the native data collection osint and biz intel options that there are out there but plenty of room for forking, more dev, more integrations, logwatch, bigger more comprehensive db, token generation curve

@gary_alderson Hey!
It’s been a little while. Just wanted to check in and see how you’re doing and how things are going on your end.

In these past days, I had an idea to use BashCore as a home VPS, booting from USB on an old PC. I installed a VPN on it and realized it has so many advantages compared to a normal VPS.

I’ve also been thinking about using BashCore as a firewall for home automation devices, which could be really interesting.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

@nickbearded - here is sort of a half baked idea - the intent is good.
bashcorex - i have to install some of theseafter backing up my orig bashrc

i'd like a much bigger history as default, have some sort of federated p2p going on in the background where people donate stuff like bash history anon and then they can get back some random targeted data that most matches up with their embeddings....in their federated sector but they can also dl the dumps too say of other sectors where they want some comp intel.

other ideas - definitely have tab completion and hotkeys or macros/autoruns you can fire off - i'd like to see a library of scripts and then agg data - something like top 100 commands, top 10 unusual commands, this is sort of like rag and agentic ai