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Designs terminal-first coding-agent UX: REPL, prompt input, status lines, keybindings, display modes. Use when shaping TUI rendering, history, or background-task navigation.

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AI Coding Agents Terminal UI

Use this skill to design or review the terminal-first user experience of a coding-agent runtime: REPL structure, prompt input, message rendering, command queues, virtualized history, interrupt behavior, notifications, and background-task navigation.

This skill is for terminal interaction patterns, not generic desktop app UX.

ASCII Flow

runtime events
  |
  v
host-owned REPL state
  transcript + prompt input + command queue + background tasks + overlays
  |
  v
render pipeline
  message model + virtualized history + notifications + task surfaces
  |
  v
input state machine
  idle | editing | running | search | overlay | teammate view | remote/viewer
  |
  v
runtime action
  submit, interrupt, foreground task, kill task, search, rewind, resume

Quick Reference

Question	Read	Outcome
How should the REPL, prompt, and history work?	`references/repl-message-input-and-history.md`	Message model, prompt queue, input behavior, interrupt handling
How should background work and large histories render?	`references/background-work-notifications-and-virtualization.md`	Background-task UX, notifications, virtual scroll, and teammate navigation
What are the input states and keybindings for background navigation?	`references/input-state-machine.md`	State machine, transition table, mode-specific keybindings, invariants, failure modes
How do ToolSearch deferred-tool results render in the REPL?	`references/recipe-toolsearch-render.md`	Discovery annotation, collapse behavior, permission-prompt sequencing, scroll rules
What OpenAI Codex TUI patterns should be snapshot-tested?	`references/openai-codex-tui-status-and-snapshot-patterns.md`	Status line/title, approval modals, hook/app-server warnings, narrow terminal states
What are Claude Code's real status-line fields, keybinding contexts, and Agent Teams display modes?	`references/input-state-machine.md`	Verified `statusLine` JSON fields, `keybindings.json` contexts/reserved keys, in-process vs split-pane display modes

When To Use

Design a terminal-first coding-agent REPL or prompt UI
Decide how message history, search, rewind, and interrupt should behave
Add background-task surfaces, teammate navigation, or task detail dialogs
Improve large-session rendering with virtualization or deferred updates
Separate interactive UI behavior from headless or SDK behavior

Use Other Skills

Need	Use Instead
Background task runtime design	`../ai-coding-agents-tasks/SKILL.md`
Remote or bridge runtime	`../ai-coding-agents-remote-runtime/SKILL.md`
Tool approval architecture	`../ai-coding-agents-permissions/SKILL.md`

Default Workflow

Keep the REPL as a host-owned state machine. Prompt input, message history, background tasks, and overlays should share one session model.
Separate transcript data from render strategy. Large histories need virtualization and deferred rendering, not truncated state ownership.
Use dedicated stores for high-frequency signals. Command queues, scroll state, and background-task counts should not force full-tree re-renders.
Treat interrupt behavior as first-class UX. Idle escape, active interrupt, teammate-view escape, and remote interrupt are different actions.
Make background work navigable. Users should be able to inspect, foreground, or kill tasks without losing the main session.
Model interactive-only features explicitly. Some callbacks and overlays exist only in REPL mode and should not leak into headless paths.
Test long sessions. Verify search, rewind, virtualization, notification timing, and prompt-input persistence after hundreds of turns.

Host Rules

The UI should not own semantic session state that the runtime cannot restore.
Large histories should optimize mounting and scroll math, not just terminal paint.
Background work deserves a first-class dialog or tree, not a single badge count.
Prompt input should survive round-trips through overlays, interrupts, and search.
Interactive UI behavior should degrade cleanly when the runtime is headless, remote, or viewer-only.

Build Order

Define the host-owned REPL state machine.
Separate transcript data from render state and scroll math.
Add prompt input persistence through overlays and interrupts.
Add background-task navigation and notifications.
Add virtualization for long histories.
Add remote, headless, and viewer-only degradation rules.

Core Invariants

The UI renders runtime state; it does not become the only owner of it.
Prompt input must survive mode changes and overlays.
Interrupt semantics must map to explicit runtime actions.
Background work must be inspectable without destroying main-session context.
Long-session performance must come from virtualization, not silent truncation of semantic history.

Failure Modes

Losing prompt input when entering search, overlays, or teammate views.
Treating idle escape, active interrupt, and exit as one key path.
Background-task dialogs drifting out of sync with runtime task state.
Scroll jumps and mount churn during resize or long-session replay.
Interactive-only affordances leaking into headless or viewer-only modes.

Minimal Viable Version

One host-owned REPL state machine.
One persistent prompt input model.
One explicit interrupt path for active turns.
One navigable background-task surface.
One virtualization strategy for long histories.

What Strong Implementations Add

Dedicated stores for high-frequency UI signals.
Teammate navigation and task-detail overlays with state preservation.
Deferred range growth, overscan tuning, and resize-stable virtual scroll.
Notification queues that do not steal focus or input state.
Viewer-only and remote-specific UI restrictions that match runtime capability.

Known Traps

Letting the UI become the system of record for session or task state that the runtime cannot restore after reconnect or resume.
Re-rendering long histories or background panels on every scroll, queue, or notification update until the terminal becomes unusable under real sessions.
Treating background work as counters instead of navigable surfaces with recoverable detail, status transitions, and cancellation context.
Using the same keybindings and escape behavior for every UI mode and creating accidental destructive actions.
Solving history performance by discarding semantic structure that replay, accessibility, or auditing still needs.

Common Anti-Patterns

Letting the UI own session semantics that resume cannot restore.
Re-rendering the full history tree on every queue or scroll update.
Using one “escape” behavior for every UI state.
Treating background work as a badge count instead of a navigable surface.
Solving long-session rendering by dropping semantic history on the floor.

TUI Framework Selection

As of mid-2026, the main choices for coding-agent terminal UIs are:

Framework	Language	Used by	Notes
Ink 6 + React 19	TypeScript	Claude Code, Gemini CLI	Mature; component model familiar to web developers; commonly cited ~30 FPS render cap and ~50 MB+ baseline (verify against target environment before treating as hard limits); large ecosystem
Ratatui	Rust	Codex (codex-rs/tui)	Low overhead; strong for high-frequency event loops; explicit layout model
Bubble Tea v2	Go	Various OSS tools	Declarative View/Update/Init pattern; v2 adds concurrent commands
OpenTUI	TypeScript/emerging	—	Emerging; watch but do not depend on for production

Selection heuristics:

Rust runtime: Ratatui avoids a separate language runtime.
TypeScript/Node runtime (Claude Code, Gemini CLI pattern): Ink 6 is the established choice.
Go with message-driven architecture preference: Bubble Tea v2.
Avoid mixing two TUI frameworks in the same surface.

Dual-surface invariant: both a CLI surface and a desktop (GUI) surface should consume a shared typed daemon or ACP server. Rendering stacks may differ — Ink for CLI, Tauri/web for desktop — but the protocol contract must be identical. Goose 2.0 (AAIF, April 2026) is the canonical example: TypeScript TUI and Tauri desktop are both clients of the same ACP daemon; message model, tool results, and interrupt semantics flow through the same protocol.

Cross-Platform Patterns (Goose)

Goose (AAIF, formerly Block) 2.0 ships a TypeScript TUI (beta: npx @aaif/goose) and is migrating the desktop from Electron to Tauri — both clients of a shared ACP daemon, not separate runtimes. This updates the earlier Ink-style REPL + Electron desktop description.

Fixed-grid, no-overflow rendering

Goose's terminal renderer has no overflow clipping. Content wider than its container visually corrupts the frame — there is no scroll-to-reveal. All content must be pre-truncated to its container's character dimensions before being emitted.

Pattern: treat container dimensions as a hard input to rendering. Message blocks compute their truncation before the renderer sees them. Resize events are first-class and trigger re-layout at the content level, not just the terminal repaint level.
Anti-pattern: relying on terminal scroll or native overflow to handle long lines. This works by accident in some terminals and corrupts output in others. Long provider responses, wide diffs, and tool output are the main offenders.
Recipe: every message component accepts (max_cols, max_rows) and returns pre-truncated content plus an "expand" affordance that opens a separate dialog/pager. The REPL state machine tracks which messages are collapsed-due-to-space vs. collapsed-by-user.

Dual-surface invariant (CLI + desktop, shared ACP daemon)

Goose's desktop UI is not a different product — it is a client of the same ACP daemon as the CLI (see ai-coding-agents-remote-runtime for the daemon pattern). Message blocks, keybindings, and interrupt semantics must work in both surfaces because they are defined at the protocol level, not the rendering layer.

Pattern: design components against the smaller surface (CLI) first. Desktop adds window management, copy/paste affordances, and native GUI controls, but the message model is identical.
Anti-pattern: maintaining parallel message components for "CLI" and "desktop." This produces visual drift, divergent keybindings, and features that exist in one surface but not the other.
Recipe: one component library renders both surfaces. The desktop shell provides hooks for native affordances (file drag-and-drop, OS notifications) but never replaces the core render pipeline.

Claude Code Reference: Status Lines, Keybindings, Agent Teams

Verified 2026-07-11 against code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline, .../keybindings, and .../agent-teams. Use this as ground truth before inventing status-line fields or keybindings for a design that claims Claude Code parity — the dominant failure mode in this space is presenting a plausible-sounding key or field

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name: ai-coding-agents-terminal-ui
description: "Designs terminal-first coding-agent UX: REPL, prompt input, status lines, keybindings, display modes. Use when shaping TUI rendering, history, or background-task navigation."
compatibility: Portable core. Works on Claude Code and Codex.
version: "1.1"
last_validated: 2026-07-11

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---
name: ai-coding-agents-terminal-ui
description: "Designs terminal-first coding-agent UX: REPL, prompt input, status lines, keybindings, display modes. Use when shaping TUI rendering, history, or background-task navigation."
compatibility: Portable core. Works on Claude Code and Codex.
version: "1.1"
last_validated: 2026-07-11
---

# AI Coding Agents Terminal UI

This skill is for terminal interaction patterns, not generic desktop app UX.

## ASCII Flow

## Quick Reference

| Question | Read | Outcome |
|----------|------|---------|
| How should the REPL, prompt, and history work? | [`references/repl-message-input-and-history.md`](references/repl-message-input-and-history.md) | Message model, prompt queue, input behavior, interrupt handling |
| How should background work and large histories render? | [`references/background-work-notifications-and-virtualization.md`](references/background-work-notifications-and-virtualization.md) | Background-task UX, notifications, virtual scroll, and teammate navigation |
| What are the input states and keybindings for background navigation? | [`references/input-state-machine.md`](references/input-state-machine.md) | State machine, transition table, mode-specific keybindings, invariants, failure modes |
| How do ToolSearch deferred-tool results render in the REPL? | [`references/recipe-toolsearch-render.md`](references/recipe-toolsearch-render.md) | Discovery annotation, collapse behavior, permission-prompt sequencing, scroll rules |
| What OpenAI Codex TUI patterns should be snapshot-tested? | [`references/openai-codex-tui-status-and-snapshot-patterns.md`](references/openai-codex-tui-status-and-snapshot-patterns.md) | Status line/title, approval modals, hook/app-server warnings, narrow terminal states |
| What are Claude Code's real status-line fields, keybinding contexts, and Agent Teams display modes? | [`references/input-state-machine.md`](references/input-state-machine.md) | Verified `statusLine` JSON fields, `keybindings.json` contexts/reserved keys, in-process vs split-pane display modes |

## When To Use

- Design a terminal-first coding-agent REPL or prompt UI
- Decide how message history, search, rewind, and interrupt should behave
- Add background-task surfaces, teammate navigation, or task detail dialogs
- Improve large-session rendering with virtualization or deferred updates
- Separate interactive UI behavior from headless or SDK behavior

## Use Other Skills

| Need | Use Instead |
|------|-------------|
| Background task runtime design | [`../ai-coding-agents-tasks/SKILL.md`](../ai-coding-agents-tasks/SKILL.md) |
| Remote or bridge runtime | [`../ai-coding-agents-remote-runtime/SKILL.md`](../ai-coding-agents-remote-runtime/SKILL.md) |
| Tool approval architecture | [`../ai-coding-agents-permissions/SKILL.md`](../ai-coding-agents-permissions/SKILL.md) |

## Default Workflow

1. **Keep the REPL as a host-owned state machine.** Prompt input, message history, background tasks, and overlays should share one session model.
2. **Separate transcript data from render strategy.** Large histories need virtualization and deferred rendering, not truncated state ownership.
3. **Use dedicated stores for high-frequency signals.** Command queues, scroll state, and background-task counts should not force full-tree re-renders.
4. **Treat interrupt behavior as first-class UX.** Idle escape, active interrupt, teammate-view escape, and remote interrupt are different actions.
5. **Make background work navigable.** Users should be able to inspect, foreground, or kill tasks without losing the main session.
6. **Model interactive-only features explicitly.** Some callbacks and overlays exist only in REPL mode and should not leak into headless paths.
7. **Test long sessions.** Verify search, rewind, virtualization, notification timing, and prompt-input persistence after hundreds of turns.

## Host Rules

- The UI should not own semantic session state that the runtime cannot restore.
- Large histories should optimize mounting and scroll math, not just terminal paint.
- Background work deserves a first-class dialog or tree, not a single badge count.
- Prompt input should survive round-trips through overlays, interrupts, and search.
- Interactive UI behavior should degrade cleanly when the runtime is headless, remote, or viewer-only.

## Build Order

1. Define the host-owned REPL state machine.
2. Separate transcript data from render state and scroll math.
3. Add prompt input persistence through overlays and interrupts.
4. Add background-task navigation and notifications.
5. Add virtualization for long histories.
6. Add remote, headless, and viewer-only degradation rules.

## Core Invariants

- The UI renders runtime state; it does not become the only owner of it.
- Prompt input must survive mode changes and overlays.
- Interrupt semantics must map to explicit runtime actions.
- Background work must be inspectable without destroying main-session context.
- Long-session performance must come from virtualization, not silent truncation of semantic history.

## Failure Modes

- Losing prompt input when entering search, overlays, or teammate views.
- Treating idle escape, active interrupt, and exit as one key path.
- Background-task dialogs drifting out of sync with runtime task state.
- Scroll jumps and mount churn during resize or long-session replay.
- Interactive-only affordances leaking into headless or viewer-only modes.

## Minimal Viable Version

- One host-owned REPL state machine.
- One persistent prompt input model.
- One explicit interrupt path for active turns.
- One navigable background-task surface.
- One virtualization strategy for long histories.

## What Strong Implementations Add

- Dedicated stores for high-frequency UI signals.
- Teammate navigation and task-detail overlays with state preservation.
- Deferred range growth, overscan tuning, and resize-stable virtual scroll.
- Notification queues that do not steal focus or input state.
- Viewer-only and remote-specific UI restrictions that match runtime capability.

## Known Traps

- Letting the UI become the system of record for session or task state that the runtime cannot restore after reconnect or resume.
- Re-rendering long histories or background panels on every scroll, queue, or notification update until the terminal becomes unusable under real sessions.
- Treating background work as counters instead of navigable surfaces with recoverable detail, status transitions, and cancellation context.
- Using the same keybindings and escape behavior for every UI mode and creating accidental destructive actions.
- Solving history performance by discarding semantic structure that replay, accessibility, or auditing still needs.

## Common Anti-Patterns

- Letting the UI own session semantics that resume cannot restore.
- Re-rendering the full history tree on every queue or scroll update.
- Using one “escape” behavior for every UI state.
- Treating background work as a badge count instead of a navigable surface.
- Solving long-session rendering by dropping semantic history on the floor.

## TUI Framework Selection

As of mid-2026, the main choices for coding-agent terminal UIs are:

| Framework | Language | Used by | Notes |
|-----------|----------|---------|-------|
| Ink 6 + React 19 | TypeScript | Claude Code, Gemini CLI | Mature; component model familiar to web developers; commonly cited ~30 FPS render cap and ~50 MB+ baseline (verify against target environment before treating as hard limits); large ecosystem |
| Ratatui | Rust | Codex (codex-rs/tui) | Low overhead; strong for high-frequency event loops; explicit layout model |
| Bubble Tea v2 | Go | Various OSS tools | Declarative View/Update/Init pattern; v2 adds concurrent commands |
| OpenTUI | TypeScript/emerging | — | Emerging; watch but do not depend on for production |

**Selection heuristics:**
- Rust runtime: Ratatui avoids a separate language runtime.
- TypeScript/Node runtime (Claude Code, Gemini CLI pattern): Ink 6 is the established choice.
- Go with message-driven architecture preference: Bubble Tea v2.
- Avoid mixing two TUI frameworks in the same surface.

**Dual-surface invariant:** both a CLI surface and a desktop (GUI) surface should consume a shared typed daemon or ACP server. Rendering stacks may differ — Ink for CLI, Tauri/web for desktop — but the **protocol contract must be identical**. Goose 2.0 (AAIF, April 2026) is the canonical example: TypeScript TUI and Tauri desktop are both clients of the same ACP daemon; message model, tool results, and interrupt semantics flow through the same protocol.

## Cross-Platform Patterns (Goose)

Goose (AAIF, formerly Block) 2.0 ships a **TypeScript TUI** (beta: `npx @aaif/goose`) and is migrating the **desktop from Electron to Tauri** — both clients of a shared ACP daemon, not separate runtimes. This updates the earlier Ink-style REPL + Electron desktop description.

### Fixed-grid, no-overflow rendering

Goose's terminal renderer has **no overflow clipping**. Content wider than its container *visually corrupts the frame* — there is no scroll-to-reveal. All content must be pre-truncated to its container's character dimensions before being emitted.

- **Pattern:** treat container dimensions as a hard input to rendering. Message blocks compute their truncation *before* the renderer sees them. Resize events are first-class and trigger re-layout at the content level, not just the terminal repaint level.
- **Anti-pattern:** relying on terminal scroll or native overflow to handle long lines. This works by accident in some terminals and corrupts output in others. Long provider responses, wide diffs, and tool output are the main offenders.
- **Recipe:** every message component accepts `(max_cols, max_rows)` and returns pre-truncated content plus an "expand" affordance that opens a separate dialog/pager. The REPL state machine tracks which messages are collapsed-due-to-space vs. collapsed-by-user.

### Dual-surface invariant (CLI + desktop, shared ACP daemon)

Goose's desktop UI is not a different product — it is a client of the same ACP daemon as the CLI (see `ai-coding-agents-remote-runtime` for the daemon pattern). Message blocks, keybindings, and interrupt semantics must work in both surfaces because they are defined at the protocol level, not the rendering layer.

- **Pattern:** design components against the smaller surface (CLI) first. Desktop adds window management, copy/paste affordances, and native GUI controls, but the message model is identical.
- **Anti-pattern:** maintaining parallel message components for "CLI" and "desktop." This produces visual drift, divergent keybindings, and features that exist in one surface but not the other.
- **Recipe:** one component library renders both surfaces. The desktop shell provides hooks for native affordances (file drag-and-drop, OS notifications) but never replaces the core render pipeline.

## Claude Code Reference: Status Lines, Keybindings, Agent Teams

Verified 2026-07-11 against `code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline`, `.../keybindings`, and `.../agent-teams`. Use this as ground truth before inventing status-line fields or keybindings for a design that claims Claude Code parity — the dominant failure mode in this space is presenting a plausible-sounding key or field

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