RepoKai

A GitHub repository browser and manager with both a terminal UI and a desktop GUI.

Features

• Browse your GitHub repositories with a 3-panel layout
• Toggle between your repositories and the repos you have starred
• View README files, rendered: styled markdown with syntax-highlighted code blocks in the TUI, HTML in the GUI
• Mouse support in the TUI: wheel-scroll the panel under the cursor, click to focus and select
• View repo info: description, language, license, stars, visibility, last updated
• Publish a local git repo to GitHub
• Clone repos to your machine
• Edit repo description and visibility
• Open repos in your browser
• 4 visual themes: Dark, Light, 3.1 (retro DOS), TUI (Tokyo Night)

Prerequisites

• Git must be installed and available in your PATH
• GitHub authentication is required. Either:
  • Set the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable with a personal access token, or
  • Log in with the GitHub CLI: gh auth login

Installing

The terminal UI is on crates.io:

cargo install repokai-tui

This installs the repokai binary. The GUI is not packaged — run it from source (below).

Running from source

Terminal UI

cargo run -p repokai-tui

Desktop GUI

# Build the frontend first
cd crates/gui/ui && bun install && bun run build && cd -

# Run the app
cargo run -p repokai-gui

For hot-reload during development:

cd crates/gui && cargo tauri dev

Keyboard Shortcuts

License

MIT