Project Scope

This charter defines what MooshieUI is and is not. Use it to judge whether a feature or change belongs in the project before writing code. When in doubt, open an issue with the feature template and ask.

What MooshieUI is

• A desktop (Tauri) and browser front-end for image, video and music generation through local or remote ComfyUI, with optional NovelAI image generation, and optional cloud voice and video generation (for example ElevenLabs and Seedance), each using the user's own API key and billed by that provider.
• A polished UI over generation workflows: prompt building, generation settings, gallery management, model hub, and related in-app tooling.
• Video generation on the same footing as images: shot planning through the timeline director, playback, frame interpolation, and clip export. The timeline is a shot list that feeds a ComfyUI graph, not a node editor.
• Music composition through ComfyUI, with style and lyric writing, a local song library, playlists, playback, manual lyric timing and audio export.
• Self-hosting with LAN accounts, roles, per-user galleries and configured GPU workers. Regular users and moderators manage their own NovelAI and cloud provider credentials.
• Windows, Linux and Apple Silicon macOS releases (Mac builds are user-tested), with native desktop and embedded browser-server modes sharing one codebase. See Mac support status.
• Localized (i18n across all supported locales) and accessible (a11y).

What MooshieUI is not

• Not a ComfyUI replacement or a general node-graph editor. It orchestrates ComfyUI; it does not reimplement it.
• Not an operated hosted SaaS service. Users run their own desktop or server; the existing multi-user self-hosting features are part of that scope.
• Not a model training or dataset-management tool.
• Not a general-purpose image editor beyond the specific in-app editing features already shipped.
• Not a video editor or non-linear editing suite. Clips are planned before generation and exported afterwards; MooshieUI does not cut, composite, or grade footage. Joining a generated voice track to a generated clip at generation time is muxing, not editing.
• Never a way around a provider's safety filters. A provider's moderation block is shown to the user as final, not retried with a reworded prompt.
• Not a plugin marketplace or arbitrary third-party extension host.

How scope is enforced

• Features are discussed in an issue (feature template) before implementation.
• Every PR states how it fits this charter (PR template).
• The maintainer judges scope against this document. Out-of-scope changes are declined regardless of code quality.

The repository SCOPE.md is the authoritative charter.