terminal-delight/
Asking which of two layouts you want before it touches the tab strip.
waiting on you
GPU-native · Rust · Linux
terminal delight
A fast Linux terminal that reads your coding agents' own transcripts, so you can see which one needs you without opening its tab.
1 WORKTREE 1 SHARED ◆
1 line of work, one shared · nothing uncommitted · 2 pairs converging
▶ 3│0✕ 0✓ 3○ 14? 0
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▶Global
▶Field notes✓
▶Webdev
▼Terminal Delight
▶Workbench✓
▼Site
docs▲✓
info kiosk
wrangle▲
▶Garden◉
▶Marketing
UNFILED
1 recoverable
✳80%
⊛58%
FI—
• CLAUDE · shellTERMBENCH🎨📊live✕
What changed
The tube bent the page itself at first, and at the curve you asked for, the text came apart. The fix was already written down in the curved-glass lessons: bend a picture of the page, never the page.
So the page is drawn into a texture at twice the resolution and bent in a shader. Text stays whole, a click lands on whatever is drawn under the pointer, and the docs went live with it.
Links
Target: https://docs.terminal-delight.brownfamilysports.com/workbench
What it is: The live docs, tube on
Target: file:///home/you/Work/td/assets/td-glass.js
What it is: The engine, and the checks that prove it
Target: https://github.com/parker-brown-family/terminal-delight
What it is: The branch, waiting on a merge
✻ Cogitated for 8m 53s · done 2:18 AM
※ recap: the page bends and the text survives. Next: merge the branch.
new task? /clear to save 412.6k tokens
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⏵⏵ auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle) · ← 2 agents
• CLAUDE · shell
Target: https://docs.terminal-delight.brownfamilysports.com/install
What it is: The install page, three commands
Target: file:///home/you/FOLLOWUPS.md
What it is: The rollup, regenerated
✻ Sautéed for 55s · done 2:16 AM
※ recap: Install replaced Download on every page.
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⏵⏵ auto mode on · ← 2 agents
• CLAUDE · shellTERMBENCH
Target: file:///home/you/Work/td/reports/left-bar.html
What it is: The review brief, ten figures
Target: https://github.com/parker-brown-family/terminal-delight
What it is: Closed, not merged
✻ Sautéed for 2m 0s · done 2:16 AM
❯ open the report
⏵⏵ auto mode on · ← 2 agents
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NEEDS ME · 3↑↓ go↵ paneo openp pinesc
REVIEWSITE:docs▲5m
Finished, not yet seen
bell · 5m
- deliverable
- unavailable
- changes
- unavailable
- checks
- unavailable
- read by
- bell
REVIEWWORKBENCH:model dials▲8s
Finished, not yet seen
bell · 8s
SITE:install page11s
Finished, not yet seen
bell · 11s
4 tabs · 9 panes🎨📊🪦🔔🧩▭ 85%◧
Drawn in HTML from the colours in the app's six built-in theme files. Pick one and the window wears it, the way a pane does.
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Bench
Not a terminal person? Flip any agent pane to its BENCH face and the agent's work is laid out as cards: what it said, what it wants you to decide, the files it made, and your own notes on them. You can follow an agent and steer it from here without reading its terminal.
See the workbench →• CLAUDE · left bar🎨📊live✕
● Read(app/src/leftbar.rs)
⎿ Read 1,284 lines
● Update(app/src/leftbar.rs)
⎿ Updated with 42 additions and 9 removals
Two ways to lay out the group header. The first keeps the
task count on the right; the second moves it under the name,
which frees eleven columns at the narrowest width.
☐ Group header layout
Where should the task count sit?
1. Count on the right
2. Count under the name (recommended)
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⏵⏵ auto mode on · 1 shell
Waiting on you12sOPUS 5.5 ▾HIGH ▾END SESSION
Woken · a message from docs-site
another agent session sent this one a message
decisionGroup header layout
Where should the task count sit? The second frees eleven columns at the narrowest width.
1 · count on the right2 · count under the name
responseTwo layouts, one question
arrived through this agent's own hooks · whole
Both layouts compile and pass. The header is the only thing left undecided, so the agent stopped and asked instead of guessing.
type to the agentTYPE ANYWHERE · ENTER SENDS · PASTE TEXT, FILES OR AN IMAGE
overviewartifactsdecisionscomments
WAITING ON YOUGroup header layoutWhere should the task count…
responseThe tab strip is keyboard-firstalt+1 … alt+4 land on a shelf
tableHeader widths9 rows · 3 columns
- OverviewThe agent's replies, each under the message that asked for it.
- DecisionsQuestions it is waiting on. A digit answers one.
- ArtifactsPages, diagrams and tables it produced, one click from open.
- CommentsYour notes. They never reach the agent.
Click TERM and BENCH: it is the same switch the pane header carries, and alt+k flips it in the app.
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Wall
Every agent pane on one read-only board: its project, what it is doing, what it has spent, and three bars read from its own transcript. Terminal Delight finds all of this out without typing a character into an agent's shell.
The agent wall →field-notes/
Reading the old tokenizer before it rewrites the index builder.
working
terminal-delight/
Finished. The barrel warp now follows the pane when it is resized.
finished
Staged cards. The layout, the bar names and the states are the app's. The agents are made up.
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Glass
The CRT is a real shader pass: barrel warp, scanlines, bloom and a rolling tracking band. A theme file sets how much of each you get, and a running terminal picks up the change as soon as you save. This page wears a cheaper copy, and both switches below are live.
Themes and the CRT →05
Kiosks
Two features get a whole page each.
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Install
MIT, Linux only, on purpose. One AppImage runs on X11 and Wayland.
AppImage
One file, about 32 MB. Download it, mark it executable, run it. The guide covers what it needs from your system and where it keeps its settings.
From source
# deps (Ubuntu): Vulkan + build libs bash scripts/setup-deps.sh # the pinned Zed checkout + the td-crt-pass renderer patch bash scripts/prepare-gpui.sh # run it cd app && cargo run