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🗓️ Dev Log 045 – CLI design system - The Terminal is My Canvas

The Terminal is My Canvas

Today was all about terminal UX. What started as layout cleanup for agent --ls turned into a full-blown CLI design system:

  • Finalized agent --ls layout: emoji glyphs, color-coded labels, aligned arrows
  • Introduced checkmark (✅) glyph for current and magenta for latest
  • Created CLI layout components: paddedLog, paddedSub, paddedDefault
  • Started standardizing output formats in ls-utils.ts
  • Discovered fragmentation: plan --ls was using a totally different path (plans.ts)
  • Re-aligned logic for consistent CLI DX

Highlight:

We’re not dumping logs anymore — we’re rendering interfaces inside the terminal.

CLI has always been fast. Now it can be beautiful too.

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