Building a Desktop Control Center for OpenClaw with Tauri and Rust

I've been working with OpenClaw for managing AI agents, and I kept running into the same problems: juggling multiple instances for different environments, manually editing openclaw.json, and lacking visibility into token usage and costs. So I built Pond — a desktop app that sits on top of OpenClaw and solves these issues. Screenshots (from the repo README) What it does Pond is a control center that lets you: Manage multiple OpenClaw instances on one machine (like dev/test/prod environments) Orchestrate team collaboration with a built-in task state machine (open → claimed → done/failed) Monitor in real-time — tokens, costs, sessions, system resources Edit configs visually instead of wrestling with JSON files Each instance runs independently with its own Gateway process, port, config, and team data. Technical stack I chose Tauri 2 instead of Electron because I wanted native performance and smaller binaries. The backend is Rust: tokio::process for managing Gateway subprocesses fs4 for cro