Harbor Desk

Built by George Gorzhiyev as a Palantir Foundry SuperRepo case study: ontology-as-code, TypeScript policy functions, and a React investigation desk in one repo.

Harbor Desk is a financial-crime casework desk. Analysts open a case on a person or an organization, attach findings, and close the file only when every open finding is resolved and a second analyst approves.

The demo story is CASE-2041 — Northwind Holdings, a newly formed Delaware LLC whose treasury wallet was funded within 48 hours of incorporation.

YouTube walkthrough — watch here.

What this demonstrates

• Ontology-as-code — people, organizations, wallets, cases, and findings are typed in ontology/src/ontology.mts, not drawn only in a UI.
• Policy in functions, not in React — close lives in requestClose.ts and policy.ts. The desk is a client.
• One SuperRepo product — ontology, functions, and the React app version and deploy together as a Marketplace product.

Instances exist because actions (or local seed) created them. SuperRepo cannot yet own pipelines or chain ingest; those stay on classic Foundry. This repo can import those types later with foundry import ontology.

flowchart LR
  ontology[ontology.mts]
  osdk[Generated OSDK]
  functions[TypeScript functions]
  desk[React desk]
  actions[Function-backed actions]

  ontology --> osdk
  osdk --> functions
  osdk --> desk
  functions -->|"return edits"| actions
  desk -->|"applyAction"| actions
  actions -->|"apply edits"| ontology

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If you cannot run Foundry

There is no public live site. SuperRepo deploys onto a Foundry enrollment, not a public URL. The walkthrough is above.

Skim requestClose.ts, policy.ts, and ontology.mts for the model and the close rules.

Teaching depth (not the entry point): study guide (how SuperRepo pieces connect) and ontology guide (Palantir ontology design, Harbor Desk as the example).

Run locally

foundry login
foundry install pnpm
pnpm run dev

App: http://localhost:8080 (or the port the CLI prints). Seed loads Northwind on every ontology start.

foundry.yml signingKeys points at the local Foundry CLI key from foundry login (~/Library/Application Support/foundry-cli/keys/default.pem on macOS). That path is not a secret. Do not commit the .pem. On another machine, point it at your own key after login.

SuperRepo is Palantir beta (week of 3 August 2026). It may not be on every enrollment, and it may change.

Deploy

pnpm run configure
FOUNDRY_PRODUCT_VERSION=1.0.0 pnpm run build
foundry deploy

Then Developer Console: approve the website domain and deploy the latest asset. After install the ontology is empty — click Load demo.

env.yml is enrollment-specific. Palantir’s private-team workflow commits it for Foundry CI; this repo gitignores it. Copy env.yml.example. Details in the study guide.

Layout

• ontology/src/ontology.mts — source of truth
• ontology/seed/001-harbor.mts — local only
• functions/typescript-functions/src/functions/ — policy
• app/src/desk/ — Blueprint ops console
• foundry.yml — SuperRepo manifest

Generated: ontology/osdk-output/, ontology/src/generated-imports/. Do not edit.

Tags that deploy must be exact MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (no v).

MIT license. Palantir names, documentation, and SDKs remain theirs.