Addresses feedback from our Discord admin curating #config-showcase: the
existing docs land non-technical users straight into Tutorials, which
are script-first and TOML-heavy ("standalone script you can run
immediately, a TOML recipe, a detailed walkthrough"). For a curious-
but-non-technical reader trying to decide whether OpenJarvis is worth
their weekend, that's the wrong first contact — they bounce before they
ever see what the framework can do for them.
This PR inserts a new Showcase tier *above* Tutorials in the docs
information architecture. Each entry is outcome-first: hook sentence,
hero screenshot, 2-3 short paragraphs of personal context, then a
"How I set this up →" link that lands on the relevant Tutorial /
User Guide. The Showcase is the funnel; Tutorials are the build steps.
Five inaugural entries — drafted to be paste-ready for #config-showcase:
- showcase/morning-brief.md — Slack/email/GitHub overnight digest
- showcase/persistent-memory.md — SOUL.md/MEMORY.md/USER.md story
- showcase/cost-savings.md — the public leaderboard as motivation
- showcase/discord-companion.md — DM Jarvis from anywhere
- showcase/coding-assistant.md — code review on an airplane
Plus the contributor template and an assets directory:
- showcase/CONTRIBUTING.md — format skeleton + editorial conventions
(screenshot specs, what to redact, tone)
- assets/showcase/README.md — asset directory conventions
- assets/showcase/*.png — placeholder hero screenshots (1600x1000,
6 KB each, dark gradient) so the gallery
renders cleanly before community
submissions populate real screenshots
Information-architecture changes:
- mkdocs.yml — insert "Showcase" tier between Getting Started and
Tutorials. Funnel order is now: land → "what's possible?" → "build it."
- docs/index.md — new hero card directly under the tagline, pointing to
the Showcase. The research-framework framing stays, but no longer
occupies the first scroll-fold.
CSS:
- docs/stylesheets/extra.css — `.showcase-screenshot` class adds rounded
corners + subtle border so hero images (placeholder or real) read as
intentional rather than as broken-image artifacts.
Validation:
- `uv run mkdocs build` (CI mode) succeeds.
- `uv run mkdocs build --strict` produces zero showcase-specific
warnings. The 18 remaining strict-mode warnings are all pre-existing
on main (`desktop-auto-update.md`, `telemetry.md`, griffe parser
warnings on existing source, mkdocs_autorefs cross-reference issues).
Explicit non-goals (deferred to follow-up PRs in the showcase-tier
roadmap):
- `jarvis showcase` CLI for personal recaps (PR #2)
- Showcase-aligned recipes in `src/openjarvis/recipes/data/` so
"How I set this up →" links into 2-command installs (PR #2)
- Automated screenshot regeneration via Playwright on release tags (PR #3)
- Replacing placeholder PNGs with real screenshots — that happens
organically as community contributors and team members submit their
own setups (see CONTRIBUTING.md for the format)
Co-authored-by: krypticmouse <herumbshandilya123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title, description
| title | description |
|---|---|
| Offline Code Reviewer | Review a pull request on a transatlantic flight, no internet required |
🛠️ Offline Code Reviewer — code review on an airplane
Earlier this month I was on a flight from SFO to FRA — eleven hours, no usable Wi-Fi. I had a teammate's pull request open in VS Code. I asked Jarvis to review it. It read the diff, read the three files the diff touched, read the project's CLAUDE.md for conventions, and produced a review with five comments — two of which caught real bugs.
The review took about 40 seconds on the laptop's built-in GPU. No API call. No "you're offline" error. By the time we landed I'd dropped the comments into GitHub and the PR was merging.
The same setup handles:
- Code review — diff + context files + conventions, structured comments.
- Debugging — paste a traceback, Jarvis reads the stack, opens the relevant files, suggests fixes.
- Test generation — point at a function, get back a
pytestfile with edge cases. - Documentation — generate docstrings that actually match the code, because Jarvis has the file open.
Why it's nice
- It works on a plane. Or a train, or a hotel with bad Wi-Fi, or your couch when Comcast is having a day. Same speed every time.
- It sees your repo, not a sanitized chunk. Cloud coding assistants make you upload a context window. The local one just reads
git statusand the files you're working on. - No "we trained on your code" question. Your code never leaves your laptop. Period.
How I set this up
→ Tutorial: Code Companion walks through the ReAct-agent + git/file/shell tool stack this uses end-to-end.
→ User Guide: Code Assistant is the focused recipe walkthrough for daily-driver code review.
→ OpenAI-compatible server — point your editor's existing AI integration (Cursor, Continue, Cody, Aider) at localhost:8000. They mostly don't know they're not talking to OpenAI.