Community tools

Community tools are home-made GlirOS tools that members of the community made and host themselves. They are listed on community.gliros.com/tools. GlirOS keeps only the listing, never the file, and doesn't review them: every listing says "Not reviewed by GlirOS. Made and hosted by …".

Finding one

Search the list or pick a category. Each card shows the name, the maker, the version, whether the tool uses the internet, and when the file was last checked. A maker can also share a private listing with a link.

Installing one

1. Open the tool's page and accept the community tool terms (once per browser).
2. Copy the install link.
3. In GlirOS (0.0.88 or newer), open Settings > Tools > Advanced > Add from a link and paste it. GlirOS shows where the tool comes from and its fingerprint, and asks before it adds anything.
4. The tool is off until you switch it on.

The install link carries the file's fingerprint (SHA-256), taken when the community checked the file. If the file has changed since then, GlirOS refuses it, so a file swapped after listing never installs. A listing whose file changed or is gone says so, with no install link, until the maker lists it again.

Community tools are kept apart like your own home-made tools: they can't share links or ask the model on their own, and you can switch one off, or its notifications, at any time.

Listing your own tool

You need a GlirOS account, a community display name, and to accept the maker terms once. Host the tool's zip yourself over https (GitHub Releases works), then use List a tool. The community downloads the file once and checks it: a valid tool.json, at most 40 files and 1 MB, an allowed id, and the network used only when declared. The result is shown item by item. A new version is a new link and a new check. See Making tools for GlirOS.

Something wrong?

Use Report on the tool's page (signed in), or contact us. Community tools are free; paid tools are in GlirOS's signed catalogue (see Selling a tool).