Brings back to mind the old IBM 3270 terminal status line (everything old is new again :). Actually think this is quite a good idea.
That's what I thought in the beginning. Once I read the spec to the end, it's clear to me that it's overly specific to one use-case — TUI AI agents.
E.g. `kind := permission | question | auth` doesn't make much sense anywhere outside of that use case. The list goes on...
I also found comms around it super muddy, AI agent use case is mentioned but deceivingly watered down with other use-cases.
Overall, that spec is no where close to Kitty/Kovid's level. It's super sad, since mitchellh's work is usually super high quality.
I hope the community will push back and the spec will get better.
There’s always two people at every company who refuse to set up auth automation though, so you end up handling it. They are very stubborn. Even when it trips them up in front of observers while executing an urgent task, I’ve only occasionally convinced them to agree to set up trust instead of typing a password every single time.
Which is to say, I have to support password prompts even though they drive me up the wall.
CLI can also _blank_, do we want to support it as well?
I actually created a separate golang library with something like this in mind: https://github.com/danudey/ansipants
The original idea I had being that CI environments, or anywhere that shows terminal output, could use a streaming ANSI parsing library to detect when a program sent a 'change window title' OSC event and then start a new collapsable section in its output. This would let programs update the actual terminal window title with its current state when running locally and update the CI interface when running in CI.
Adding in the ability to specify the program's current status and (optionally) progress could be extremely useful in CI environments as well. Imagine, for example, a long-running analysis task which uses OSC 7501 to say that it's currently running and is 75% of the way done. CI could expose that in the UI to provide useful information to the end-user without having to print a progress bar or multiple progress lines to the fake terminal it's being run in.