feat: add interactive TUI for task execution - #3015

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Commits on Aug 31, 2026

feat: add TUI output mode
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refactor: flatten TUI task list
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feat: add TUI text selection mode
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Commits on Sep 1, 2026

feat: improve TUI task status display
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feat: refine TUI task status presentation
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refactor: organize TUI implementation
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feat: render nested task tree in TUI
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feat: support list and tree TUI navigators
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feat: refine TUI behavior and documentation
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fix: make root task output selectable
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feat: configure TUI output from CLI
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feat: add interactive TUI launcher
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docs: document interactive TUI invocation
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fix: refine TUI launcher navigation
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fix: distinguish failed and skipped TUI tasks
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refactor: simplify TUI launcher task list
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Commits on Sep 2, 2026

Commits on Sep 3, 2026

Add Taskfile with useful tests for the TUI
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fix: report task cancellation consistently across platforms
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refactor: observe task execution through a Listener instead of Output
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fix: re-execute run-once tasks on repeated launcher runs
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fix: reject unknown task names before opening the TUI
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docs: describe how --output relates to the TUI
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fix: show calls that never ran in the task navigator
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fix: redraw progress bars in place in the output pane
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feat: copy and snapshot task output from the TUI
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fix: copy to the clipboard in terminals without OSC 52
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fix: copy task output without colour codes
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feat: copy task output with its colours on Y
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fix: give the output snapshot a screen of its own
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fix: highlight the incomplete-snapshot warning
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Commits on Sep 4, 2026

refactor: move key help to bubbles/help and add a key list
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feat: show how long each task ran
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fix: make the key list readable and keep the way out first
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docs: name ANSI codes rather than colours in the key list
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fix: label s by what it does, not what it makes
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fix: bind printing output to t and label it to terminal
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fix: put the way back to the launcher in the footer
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fix: rank the arrow keys last and pair them in the footer
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fix: report quick tasks in milliseconds
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refactor: report how a task ended instead of encoding it in an error
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refactor: make the listener API extensible for external clients
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feat: prompt for required variables from the TUI
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test: add prompting examples to the manual test Taskfile
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fix: show confirmation prompts when the TUI hands back the terminal
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revert: drop the terminal handover for prompts
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Commits on Sep 5, 2026

feat: let a client answer the questions Task asks
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fix: show why a run failed before any task started
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feat: ask in the output pane, and ask whenever a client can answer
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revert: put the question back on the whole screen
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feat: ask as a dialog over the dashboard
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fix: put the dialog's keys in the dialog
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fix: show a confirmation's default answer instead of implying it
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fix: reject --interactive=false with --tui rather than ignoring it
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fix: stop Enter closing a finished dashboard
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feat: save task output to files
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feat: ask where to save, and create the path
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feat: name saved output for when it was saved
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feat: suggest a run folder when saving every output
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fix: lead a saved name with the task, not the timestamp
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feat: suggest saving beside the project rather than in the home directory
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feat: have a logs directory Task created ignore itself
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test: cover the prompt handshake, and drop dead help code
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feat(tui): show how the selected task ended in the output header
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feat(tui): put the scroll position on the output pane's frame
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feat(tui): switch the task navigator with v
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feat: configure the TUI display options in .taskrc.yml
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fix(tui): count the scroll indicator against the whole output
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feat(tui): draw a scrollbar on the output pane's border
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test: move the TUI demo Taskfile into testdata
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feat(tui): select and copy lines with the keyboard in fullscreen
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feat(tui): accept V as well as v to start a selection
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feat(tui): drop the print-to-terminal key
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fix: pass build tags to go test, not to gotestsum
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docs: drop two comments that outlived the snapshot view
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docs: correct what OwnsScreen refuses
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Commits on Sep 6, 2026

feat(tui): mark a live selection more strongly than the cursor
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