- ❯ flush left for user input, continuation lines indented 2 spaces
- ◆ purple icon for AI responses, continuation indented
- User multiline messages: ❯ first line, indented rest
- Tool output: indented under parent
- System messages: • prefix with multiline indent
- Input area: no extra padding, ❯ at column 0
Each permission mode has a distinct color:
- bypass: green, default: blue, plan: teal
- accept_edits: purple, auto: peach, deny: red
Top separator line shows mode label on right side in mode color.
Both separator lines (above/below input) colored to match.
Shift+Tab cycling visually changes the line colors.
- Fixed: chat content no longer overflows past allocated height.
Lines are measured for physical width and hard-truncated to
exactly the chat area height. Input + status bar always visible.
- Header scrolls with chat (not pinned), only input/status fixed
- Git branch in status bar (green, via git rev-parse)
- Alt screen mode — terminal scrollback disabled
- Mouse wheel + PgUp/PgDown scroll within TUI
- New EventToolResult: tool output as dimmed indented block
- Separator lines above/below input, no status bar backgrounds
Switch to bubbles textinput for proper keyboard handling (space,
cursor, backspace, clipboard all work correctly).
Improved design:
- ❯ user prompt, ◆ assistant prefix, ✗ error prefix
- Word wrapping for long responses
- Separator line between chat and input
- Streaming indicator (● streaming) in status bar
- Better color scheme (lighter purples/blues)
- Welcome message with usage hints
TUI launches when no piped input detected. Features:
- Chat panel with scrollable message history
- Streaming response with animated cursor
- User/assistant/tool/error message styling (purple theme)
- Status bar: provider, model, token count, turn count
- Input with basic editing
- Slash commands: /quit, /clear, /incognito (stub)
- Ctrl+C cancels current turn or exits
Built on charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/lipgloss/v2.
Session interface decouples TUI from engine via channels.
Pipe mode still works for non-interactive use.
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