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Sheet F — Features

A tray icon, three colours,
and a lot of plumbing.

Everything Greenlight actually does, in roughly the order you will meet it. Nothing here needs a dashboard tab, a seat licence or a sales call.

Free · Windows 10 / 11 · auto-updating · tokens stay in Credential Manager

F-01 — Pull request triage

Every PR that involves you, in one list

  • Awaiting your review, authored by you, approved, changes requested.
  • Filterable, badged with a count, grouped by state.
  • One click opens the PR in your browser, where the actual work stubbornly remains.
  • Both providers in one list, because your team never agreed on one and never will.

The filters exist so you can locate the pull request you have been dodging since Tuesday. Greenlight will not review it for you. Greenlight will simply keep it visible, patiently, like a small enamel conscience.

F-02 — Build health

Runs grouped by what needs you

  • A history strip per definition, so a flaky pipeline stops being deniable.
  • Branch, duration, who triggered it, and who first broke it.
  • Mark read to quiet a run; show acknowledged to bring it back.
  • A retention window, so last month's failures stop haunting the list.
Greenlight Builds tab showing recent pipeline runs grouped by definition with branch, duration, status and history strips
The Builds tab: where every green square is a tiny lie and the red ones are a confession.

F-03 — The tray icon

The whole point, in one glyph

01Green tray iconGreen

Everything passes

Nothing needs you. Suspicious. Go get coffee before somebody notices.

02Amber tray iconAmber

Running, or a review is waiting

Someone wants your opinion. You will give it. It will be ignored.

03Red tray iconRed

A pipeline is broken

It worked on your machine. Truly one of the great unsolved mysteries.

04Dark tray iconDark

Disconnected, or clueless

Same emotional state as your access token on day 91.

F-04 — Notifications and sounds

Toasts you can actually live with

Every event is a separate switch. Failures, recoveries and review requests default to on; every successful build defaults to off, because that way lies madness and a muted notification centre. Point any build event at your own .wav and let the office learn exactly who broke main.

Build failed

on — the one you actually want

Build recovered

on — closure matters

PR assigned to you

on — someone wants your opinion

Every single success

off — forever, mercifully

F-05 — Wire up the quotes

Status updates you can hear from the kitchen

Any status can trigger a .wav. Pick a clip per state, press Play, and imagine it firing at 4:55pm on a Friday. Red is spoken for: “Bring out your dead!”

GreenBuild recovered

“Yeah, baby, yeah!”

AmberReview requested

“Danger is my middle name.”

RedBuild failed

“Bring out your dead!”

F-06 — Extras

The rest of the panel

X-01

Lamp plugins

A small interface, an isolated load context, and your hardware gets every state change. A misbehaving lamp takes itself down, not the app.

X-02

Settings worth having

Per-connection scopes down to a single pipeline, your own polling interval and retention window, start with Windows, start minimised, single instance, light/dark/system.

X-03

Token hygiene

PATs live in Windows Credential Manager, DPAPI-encrypted per user, keyed by connection. Not settings.json. Not a log. Not tokens_FINAL.txt.

X-04

Read-only, always

Greenlight never merges, approves, cancels or queues anything. It reads. The damage remains entirely manual.

X-05

No telemetry

It talks to your remotes and the update feed. That is the whole list, mostly because writing telemetry sounded like work.

X-06

Deliberately not included

No work items, no boards, no source browsing, no in-app review. It is not replacing your provider's web UI, it is keeping you out of it.

One job, finished.

A tool that does one thing can actually be completed. A platform never is. We prefer finishing things.

Download for Windows

Windows 10 / 11 x64 · installs and updates itself