Built-in Services

Aether Desktop manages five container-based services. Start and stop them from the dashboard or CLI.

Aether IDE

A full VS Code compatible development environment running in a container.

Property	Value
Port	8888 (HTTP), 2222 (SSH)
Domain	ide.aether.localhost (with Traefik)
Workspace	Mounted at /home/jovyan/work

Features:

• Extensions marketplace
• Integrated terminal and debugger
• Git integration
• SSH access for remote editors
• GrepAI pre-installed and auto-running

aether-desktop launch --project ~/my-project

AetherTerm

AI-assisted terminal with natural language command generation and safety features.

Property	Value
Port	57575
Domain	terminal.aether.localhost (with Traefik)

Features:

• Natural language → shell command translation
• Dangerous command detection (prevents accidental rm -rf, credential leaks)
• Persistent sessions
• Web-based interface

aether-desktop launch terminal

→ AetherTerm Details

Aperture LLM Gateway

An OpenAI-compatible API endpoint that unifies access to multiple LLM providers.

Property	Value
Port	4000
Domain	aperture.aether.localhost (with Traefik)

Aperture starts automatically when IDE or Terminal launches. AI tools inside the environment can call http://localhost:4000 as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

OVMS (OpenVINO Model Server)

Local AI model inference engine for running models on your hardware.

Property	Value
Ports	8000 (REST), 9000 (gRPC)
Domain	ovms.aether.localhost (with Traefik)
Model storage	%LOCALAPPDATA%/aether-desktop/models/

Features:

• GPU/NPU hardware acceleration (auto-detected)
• Model download and management from the Settings panel
• Embedding models for GrepAI
• LLM models for local inference

Networking

When Traefik proxy is enabled, all services are accessible via *.aether.localhost domains (RFC 6761 compliant). Without Traefik, use localhost:<port> directly.

Service	Domain	Direct Port
IDE	ide.aether.localhost	8888
Terminal	terminal.aether.localhost	57575
OVMS	ovms.aether.localhost	8000 / 9000
Aperture	aperture.aether.localhost	4000
Traefik Dashboard	traefik.aether.localhost	—

Starting and Stopping

From the dashboard, use the start/stop buttons. From the CLI:

# Start all
aether-desktop launch

# Start specific service
aether-desktop launch terminal

# Stop specific service
aether-desktop stop terminal

# Stop all
aether-desktop stop