feat(tui): put the kawaii face+verb ticker in the status bar, not the thinking panel

The status bar was showing stale lifecycle text ("running…") while the
face+verb stream flickered through the thinking panel as Python pushed
thinking.delta events. That's backwards — the face ticker is the
primary "I'm alive" signal, it belongs in the status bar; the thinking
panel is for substantive reasoning and tool activity.

Status bar now reads `ui.busy`: when true, renders a local `<FaceTicker>`
cycling FACES × VERBS on a 2.5s interval, unaffected by server events.
When false, the bar shows the actual status string (ready, starting
agent…, interrupted, etc.).

Side effect: `scheduleThinkingStatus` still patches `ui.status` with
Python's face text, but while busy the bar ignores that string and uses
the ticker instead. No server-side changes needed — Python keeps
emitting thinking.delta as a liveness heartbeat, the TUI just doesn't
let it fight the status bar.
This commit is contained in:
Brooklyn Nicholson
2026-04-16 20:14:25 -05:00
parent 23212d6b40
commit aedc767c66
11 changed files with 109 additions and 40 deletions
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@@ -1,12 +1,32 @@
import { Box, type ScrollBoxHandle, Text } from '@hermes/ink'
import { type ReactNode, type RefObject, useCallback, useEffect, useState, useSyncExternalStore } from 'react'
import { FACES } from '../content/faces.js'
import { VERBS } from '../content/verbs.js'
import { fmtDuration } from '../domain/messages.js'
import { stickyPromptFromViewport } from '../domain/viewport.js'
import { fmtK } from '../lib/text.js'
import type { Theme } from '../theme.js'
import type { Msg, Usage } from '../types.js'
const FACE_TICK_MS = 2500
function FaceTicker({ color }: { color: string }) {
const [tick, setTick] = useState(() => Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000))
useEffect(() => {
const id = setInterval(() => setTick(n => n + 1), FACE_TICK_MS)
return () => clearInterval(id)
}, [])
return (
<Text color={color}>
{FACES[tick % FACES.length]} {VERBS[tick % VERBS.length]}
</Text>
)
}
function ctxBarColor(pct: number | undefined, t: Theme) {
if (pct == null) {
return t.color.dim
@@ -73,6 +93,7 @@ export function GoodVibesHeart({ tick, t }: { tick: number; t: Theme }) {
export function StatusRule({
cwdLabel,
cols,
busy,
status,
statusColor,
model,
@@ -84,6 +105,7 @@ export function StatusRule({
}: {
cwdLabel: string
cols: number
busy: boolean
status: string
statusColor: string
model: string
@@ -111,7 +133,7 @@ export function StatusRule({
<Box flexShrink={1} width={leftWidth}>
<Text color={t.color.bronze} wrap="truncate-end">
{'─ '}
<Text color={statusColor}>{status}</Text>
{busy ? <FaceTicker color={statusColor} /> : <Text color={statusColor}>{status}</Text>}
<Text color={t.color.dim}> {model}</Text>
{ctxLabel ? <Text color={t.color.dim}> {ctxLabel}</Text> : null}
{bar ? (
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@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ const ComposerPane = memo(function ComposerPane({
{ui.statusBar && (
<StatusRule
bgCount={ui.bgTasks.size}
busy={ui.busy}
cols={composer.cols}
cwdLabel={status.cwdLabel}
model={ui.info?.model?.split('/').pop() ?? ''}
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ const ComposerPane = memo(function ComposerPane({
{sh ? (
<Text color={ui.theme.color.shellDollar}>$ </Text>
) : (
<Text bold color={ui.theme.color.gold}>
<Text bold color={ui.theme.color.prompt}>
{composer.inputBuf.length ? ' ' : `${ui.theme.brand.prompt} `}
</Text>
)}
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@@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ export function SessionPanel({ info, sid, t }: { info: SessionInfo; sid?: string
<Text color={t.color.dim} wrap="truncate-end">
{cwd}
</Text>
{sid && <Text color={t.color.dim}>Session: {sid}</Text>}
{sid && (
<Text>
<Text color={t.color.sessionLabel}>Session: </Text>
<Text color={t.color.sessionBorder}>{sid}</Text>
</Text>
)}
</Box>
)}
<Box flexDirection="column" width={w}>