Shorty

Shorty is a C# Flow Launcher plugin that sends one-shot prompts to any OpenAI-compatible chat API and renders the answer as Markdown inside Flow Launcher.

It doubles as the test plugin for the markdown preview pane work on TrueCrimeDev/Flow.Launcher@markdown-preview-pane, exercising the new plugin APIs end to end:

• Result.Preview with PreviewContentType.Markdown (rendered answers, code highlighting) and PreviewContentType.Hidden
• Result.RoundedIcon
• IPublicAPI.StartLoadingBar / StopLoadingBar
• IPublicAPI.LoadImageAsync (preloading the loading-animation frames)

Note: Shorty is built against those fork APIs and will not load on a stock Flow Launcher release. It is meant to be run against the fork's debug build.

Layout

• Shorty/ — plugin source and plugin.json
• Shorty.Tests/ — xUnit test project

The repository root is intentionally not a loadable plugin; Flow loads the manifest at Shorty/plugin.json from a published output directory.

Requirements

• Windows, .NET 9 SDK
• The Flow.Launcher fork checked out beside this repo — Shorty.csproj references Flow.Launcher.Plugin from the sibling checkout:

<your folder>/
├── Flow.Launcher/                  # TrueCrimeDev/Flow.Launcher @ markdown-preview-pane
└── Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Shorty/    # this repo

git clone -b markdown-preview-pane https://github.com/TrueCrimeDev/Flow.Launcher.git
git clone https://github.com/TrueCrimeDev/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Shorty.git

Build, test, run

From the repo root:

dotnet test .\Shorty.Tests\Shorty.Tests.csproj
dotnet publish .\Shorty\Shorty.csproj -c Debug -o ..\Flow.Launcher\Output\Debug\Plugins\Shorty

Then build and run the Flow Launcher debug build from the sibling checkout; it loads Shorty from Output\Debug\Plugins\Shorty.

CI does the same two-repo layout on windows-latest — see .github/workflows/ci.yml.

Setup

1. Open Flow Launcher settings → Plugins → Shorty.
2. Set your API key, endpoint URL, and default model (any OpenAI-compatible provider).

Usage

• hey <prompt> then Enter — the answer renders as Markdown in the preview pane.
• Enter on the answer row copies it; the context menu offers Copy as Markdown, Save to file, and Open in editor.
• hey :presets opens presets.json to define prompt presets (per-preset model, system prompt, and temperature).

License

MIT