worldmonitor/docs/Docs_To_Review/DESKTOP_CONFIGURATION.md

Desktop Runtime Configuration Schema

World Monitor desktop now uses a runtime configuration schema with per-feature toggles and secret-backed credentials.

Secret keys

The desktop vault schema supports the following 17 keys used by services and relays:

• GROQ_API_KEY
• OPENROUTER_API_KEY
• FRED_API_KEY
• EIA_API_KEY
• FINNHUB_API_KEY
• CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN
• ACLED_ACCESS_TOKEN
• URLHAUS_AUTH_KEY
• OTX_API_KEY
• ABUSEIPDB_API_KEY
• NASA_FIRMS_API_KEY
• WINGBITS_API_KEY
• VITE_OPENSKY_RELAY_URL
• OPENSKY_CLIENT_ID
• OPENSKY_CLIENT_SECRET
• AISSTREAM_API_KEY
• VITE_WS_RELAY_URL

Feature schema

Each feature includes:

• id: stable feature identifier.
• requiredSecrets: list of keys that must be present and valid.
• enabled: user-toggle state from runtime settings panel.
• available: computed (enabled && requiredSecrets valid).
• fallback: user-facing degraded behavior description.

Desktop secret storage

Desktop builds persist secrets in OS credential storage through Tauri command bindings backed by Rust keyring entries (world-monitor service namespace).

Secrets are not stored in plaintext files by the frontend.

Degradation behavior

If required secrets are missing/disabled:

• Summarization: Groq/OpenRouter disabled, browser model fallback.
• FRED / EIA / Finnhub: economic, oil analytics, and stock data return empty state.
• Cloudflare / ACLED: outages/conflicts return empty state.
• Cyber threat feeds (URLhaus, OTX, AbuseIPDB): cyber threat layer returns empty state.
• NASA FIRMS: satellite fire detection returns empty state.
• Wingbits: flight enrichment disabled, heuristic-only flight classification remains.
• AIS / OpenSky relay: live tracking features are disabled cleanly.