devpit
Capabilities are extras built into devpit and installed per project. This build has two: Notes and Excalidraw. There is nothing to browse and nothing to download — every capability is compiled into the app, and installing one is a decision this project makes.
The pane
The sidebar's Capabilities row opens it, and says how many are on. The pane's own note is the whole rule: "Built into devpit, installed per project. On, a capability gets its own place in the sidebar; off, it leaves and its files stay."
Search by name or description, and narrow the grid with All, On, Installed or Not installed. Each card says what the capability adds — "Opens beside your work", "Pins to cards" — and whether it is On, Off or Not installed.
Installing, switching, uninstalling
| Action | What happens |
|---|---|
| Install | Asks first, then installs it in this project and turns it on. Its files will live in this project's folder. |
| The switch | Turns an installed capability on or off. Off, it leaves the sidebar and its files stay where they are. |
| Uninstall | Two steps. First it says the capability leaves the sidebar and its open tabs close. Then it asks whether to delete its data as well — off unless you tick it, with the number of files it would take. The last button names what it is about to do. |
Deleting the data cannot be undone. Left alone, the files stay in the project's folder, and the pane says so afterwards.
In the sidebar
A capability that is on gets a row of its own under Capabilities, which opens its list — a place to go rather than a setting behind a popover. Turning it off takes the row away and closes its tabs. The rows are per project, so switching project switches which are there.
Where a capability may write
A capability's files live in devpit's folder for this project, in a folder of the capability's own name, and never in your repository:
~/.devpit/projects/<name>-<suffix>/data/notes/
~/.devpit/projects/<name>-<suffix>/data/excalidraw/
It may only own files in that folder, only with the extensions it declares — .md for Notes, .excalidraw for Excalidraw — and only while it is on. A file is capped at 32 MiB, a name is checked before the disk is touched, and a link pointing out of the folder is refused rather than followed.
Because they are ordinary files, a .md or .excalidraw copied into that folder from elsewhere shows up in the list like any other.