Command palette

grit plugin add command-palette

This one is unusual: it adds a full feature to the admin and never touches Go. No models, no migrations, no server changes — it is pure client code, mounted through the admin layout's injection markers. It works on the triple and full architectures, the two that ship an admin app.

The problem it solves

Navigating a growing admin by mouse — sidebar, then section, then page — is slow for people who live in it all day. A keyboard palette lets a power user jump anywhere by typing a few letters, the same muscle memory they already have from Linear, VS Code, or Raycast.

The admin already ships a floating QuickAccess button — a grid of cards you click. The command palette is the complementary keyboard path, built from the same registry so the two never drift apart.

How it works

A global keydown listener is registered once when the admin loads. Press ⌘K on macOS or Ctrl+K anywhere to open a centered overlay with a search box; Escape closes it. Until you open it, the component renders nothing.

The list of destinations is assembled from two sources. The first is the resource registry — resources imported from @/resources. Every registered resource contributes two commands:

Go to <Plural>    →  /resources/<slug>
New <Singular>    →  /resources/<slug>?action=create

The second source is the fixed set of system pages: Dashboard, System Hub, Roles & permissions, User Activity, System Health, Data & Backup, and Profile.

Because the palette reads the registry directly, a resource you just created with grit generate resource shows up automatically — there is nothing to wire up.

Install

Add the plugin, then start the admin — there is no migration step because there is no database work:

grit plugin add command-palette
cd apps/admin && pnpm dev

The palette is mounted in the dashboard layout via injection markers, so it is available on every admin page the moment the app boots.

Using it

Press Ctrl+K (or ⌘K), start typing a resource or page name, and press Enter to go there:

⌘K            open the palette
roles         filter to "Roles & permissions"
Enter         jump to it

⌘K
new           see every "New <Resource>" create action
↑ / ↓         move the highlight
Enter         open the highlighted command

Use cases

• Fast keyboard navigation for people in the admin every day — no reaching for the sidebar.
• Jump straight to create — type new and a resource name to land on the create form without clicking through.
• Discoverability — a single searchable list of every place the admin can take you.
• Muscle memory — the ⌘K reflex you already have from Linear, VS Code, and Raycast, now in your own admin.