+ Mouse is a mobile coding app. A gesture shell where the whole
+ development environment lives: swipe between editors, pinch workspaces
+ open, and run real node and git against your GitHub repos.
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The shell owns navigation. Content owns reading and typing. Conflict is settled once, everywhere.
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+ Lane
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Horizontal drag
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Swipe a lane to the next container on the ring — files, editor, graph, terminal.
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+ Ring
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Edge swipe
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Drag from the screen edge to travel between rings, or mint a fresh one.
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+ Layout
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Spread / pinch
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Two fingers open a lane or close one. Pinch the last lane and the ring folds.
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+ Split
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Divider drag
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Pull the capsule between lanes to resize. Springs settle with mass.
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+ Content
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Tap · scroll · type
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Trees scroll, editors edit, terminals take keystrokes. Vertical stays with content.
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+ Focus
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Editor stand-down
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While the editor is focused, every drag on it belongs to the text — selection and caret first.
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+ The gesture law.
+ One-finger horizontal drags and all two-finger gestures belong to the shell, everywhere.
+ Content gets taps, vertical scrolling, and the keyboard.
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+ The stack
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A full stack on the device.
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No server in the middle. GitHub talks to the phone. The engines are native.
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+ 01 · Shell
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msh
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A from-scratch POSIX-flavored shell: pipes, redirects, functions, $(…), globs, scripts — verified against real /bin/sh.
Native object store, packfiles, smart-HTTP fetch/push, and three-way merge — interoperable with the real CLI.
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+ From clone to push
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Sign in once. The workspace is the project.
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Sign in with GitHub
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OAuth Device Flow. Tokens in the Keychain. The GitHub container is the same session everywhere.
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Open a workspace
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Clone via tarball or start a local project. One workspace per repo, shared across rings.
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Edit in place
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Tap the file. Type. Autosave. Shared buffers mean two rings on one file stay live.
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Commit · sync · merge
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The graph toolbar drives the native engine. Sync pushes; pull is an explicit terminal command.
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+ FAQ
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What Mouse is, and what it is not.
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+ What is Mouse?
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A native mobile IDE for iOS and Android. The development environment lives in a gesture-driven shell: rings of containers for files, editor, commit graph, and terminal.
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+ Is this a web app or Electron wrapper?
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No. Two native apps — SwiftUI on iOS/iPadOS, Jetpack Compose on Android. No Capacitor, React Native, or Flutter bridge.
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+ Does node really run on the phone?
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Yes. A Node-compatible runtime on JavaScriptCore, with npm from the real registry, sockets, HTTP, and packages like vite, webpack, jest, and express verified against real node.
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+ How does git work without a git binary?
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Mouse ships a from-scratch engine: loose objects, packfiles, refs, merge, and GitHub smart-HTTP. Repositories it writes pass git fsck.
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+ Where do I get it?
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The source is on GitHub today. Build the iOS app with Xcode + xcodegen, or the Android app with Gradle. Release packaging is tracked in the repo.
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+ What about AI / agents?
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Product branches on the roadmap cover AI pair editing and background agents as containers. The shell’s multi-view model is the substrate; those slices land when feel-tested.
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