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Mods tab

Installing Lyra adds a Mods entry to the Start menu, alongside the stock entries. It is the on-device home for mods: browsing the repository, installing, and managing what is on the device. No desktop software or network tool is needed to use it.

What it contains

The tab has three views:

  • Browse lists the mods published to the Lyra repository and installs one directly on the device.
  • Manage lists what is installed and enables or disables each mod.
  • Settings lists both global Lyra provided settings as well as controls for installed mods (not yet implemented).

Selecting a mod in either view opens a detail page with its name, author, category, and description, and the action for that context: install from Browse, enable or disable from Manage.

A native daemon on the device, reposd, backs the tab. It fetches the repository feed and the mod packages and handles the installs. The tab's scenes and its management logic are part of the Lyra platform bundle, which updates as one unit.

What it does

The Mods tab is the user-facing surface. What it drives underneath, the manifest format, the capability runtime that applies a mod at boot, and how a mod is authored, is the subject of the Modkit reference. Getting Lyra onto the device in the first place is covered under Install Lyra, and turning individual mods on and off under Installing mods.