Ermine is a Fuchsia Session Shell intended to provide developers with a lovable environment for testing mods on Fuchsia.

Pressing command-space (circle key in caps lock position on Eve, not sure what key on a Windows-style keyboard) will bring up a text entry box. Enter the name of a package (i.e. noodles) and it will be launched into a new story.

This initial version implements the same approach for view hosting, layout and control as //garnet/bin/developer/[tiles|tiles_ctl]. For simplicity it re-uses //sdk/fidl/fuchsia.developer.tiles/tiles.fidl.

When built as part of the default package for topaz, Ermine is launched by device_runner after the user logs in.

Ermine also responds to stories and mods created with sessionctl as shown below.

sessionctl --story_name="Fez Story" --mod_name="noodles1" --mod_url="fuchsia-pkg://fuchsia.com/noodles#meta/noodles.cmx" add_mod