2. Observability & Metrics: The ao monitor Sub-Domain
Cockpit relies on Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) to draw historical and real-time graphs of CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O. ao can replicate this visual observability entirely within the command line.

The Command Concept: ao sys monitor or ao net monitor.

Implementation Plan:

The TUI Framework: Integrate the ratatui crate. It is the industry standard for Rust terminal user interfaces and is built for "zero overhead" instant-startup dashboards.

Data Gathering: For real-time metrics, read directly from /proc (e.g., /proc/stat, /proc/meminfo, /proc/net/dev).

Visual Output: Use ratatui's charting widgets to draw live sparklines and block-rendered graphs of resource usage. Because ao is stateless, it won't store historical data like Cockpit does, but it will provide an instant, htop-style overlay of the system health with the exact same binary.

3. Advanced Storage: Expanding ao disk
Cockpit excels at guiding users through complex Logical Volume Management (LVM) and RAID setups—tasks where sysadmins often forget the native syntax.

The Command Concept: ao disk pool create <name> <devices> or ao disk raid setup <level> <devices>.

Implementation Plan:

LVM Abstraction: Expand the src/os/detector.rs to abstract lvm2 commands. Create a unified syntax that translates ao disk pool create my_data /dev/sdb /dev/sdc into the underlying pvcreate, vgcreate, and lvcreate sequence.

DBus Integration: Alternatively, bypass the CLI wrappers entirely and use the zbus crate to communicate directly with udisks2 via the system message bus. This is exactly how Cockpit manages storage under the hood, ensuring highly reliable, OS-agnostic disk formatting and partitioning.

4. Advanced Networking: Expanding ao net
Cockpit handles NIC teaming, network bridges, and VLANs visually. ao currently handles basic interfaces and IPs.

The Command Concept: ao net link bridge add <name> <interfaces> or ao net link vlan add <id> <interface>.

Implementation Plan:

NetworkManager Translation: For generic Linux, the most robust abstraction is NetworkManager. Expand the networking module to wrap nmcli.

Configuration Generation: For reproducible system configurations or specific backend distributions, ao can be designed to directly generate the declarative configuration files. For example, if the Detector identifies a Debian/Ubuntu system using Netplan, ao net link bridge add can safely append a bridge definition to /etc/netplan/ and execute netplan apply.

5. Security Auditing: Expanding ao sec
Cockpit has an incredible SELinux module that parses complex AVC denial logs into plain English and offers "click to fix" solutions. ao can replicate this triage workflow directly in the shell.

The Command Concept: ao sec audit triage.

Implementation Plan:

Log Ingestion: Use the journald-query crate to programmatically hook into the systemd journal and filter specifically for audit logs over the last 24 hours.

Regex Parsing: Implement a parsing function that looks for denied keywords, extracting the scontext (source) and tcontext (target).

Actionable Output: Instead of just printing the log, have ao output a human-readable explanation: "Nginx was denied read access to /var/www/html." followed by the exact audit2allow or semanage fcontext command required to fix it.

6. Log Filtering: Expanding ao log
Cockpit allows users to click through dropdowns to filter logs by priority (Error, Info, Warning) or timeframes.

The Command Concept: ao log sys --since "1h ago" --level error.

Implementation Plan:

Native Journald Bindings: Instead of just wrapping the journalctl binary, use journald-query or rust-journald to read the binary journal data directly.

Standardized Flags: Expose common filters as Rust CLI arguments (via clap). This allows sysadmins to parse logs across Arch, Fedora, and Debian using the exact same ao time-parsing logic, completely abstracting the underlying logging daemon's syntax quirks.
