hyperhive/docs/terminal-rendering.md
iris cebf3c6ced Drop classifyEvent.ts, render TermMsg directly
Per review: StreamRow was meant to match what the server sends in
TermMsg, not be a separate model needing a translation step.

- classifyEvent.ts and streamRow.ts deleted; termMsg.ts holds the wire
  types (TermMsg/TermEnvelope) plus TermRow, a TermMsg with just the
  key/fromHistory bookkeeping Preact needs for list rendering.
- Row.tsx renders a TermRow directly: level -> CSS class, empty
  summary + markdown body -> flat row, everything else with a body ->
  expandable details gated by the operator's preference. No separate
  classification step.
- useLiveStream.ts drops ClassifyCtx (a single incrementing key
  counter didn't need a whole context object) and maps envelopes to
  rows inline.
- docs/terminal-rendering.md trimmed substantially — was documenting
  more implementation detail than useful; points at stream_enrich.rs
  for the per-tool specifics instead of duplicating them in prose.
2026-08-30 21:23:28 +02:00

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Per-agent terminal: row taxonomy (as built)

The per-agent web UI's live pane renders one row per TermMsg (hive-agent/src/term_msg.rs): {icon?, level: debug|info|warn|error, summary, body?, body_format?: markdown|diff, coalesce_key?}. Classification (icon, summary text, whether a tool call gets an expandable body) happens server-side, once — term_msg.rs + stream_enrich.rs — and is served identically by both GET /api/events/history and GET /api/events/stream as TermEnvelope { ts, seq?, msgs: TermMsg[] } frames (hive-agent/src/web_ui/stream.rs).

The frontend renders a TermMsg close to as-is (frontend/packages/agent/src/components/Row.tsx): level picks the CSS colour (terminal.css's .live .level-*), an empty summary + markdown body renders as a flat row with just the body (assistant text), and any other bodied row is an expandable <details>, opened by default according to the operator's expand-tool-output preference (getExpandDetailsPref()) — uniformly, no per-tool override. There's no separate client-side row model or classification step.

Layout

Every row shares one prefix column via padding-left + negative text-indent on .live .row; an icon (when set) sits in a fixed-width .row-glyph cell so icons of different rendered widths still line up. <details> summaries reuse the same metrics, with the disclosure caret leading the summary text rather than the icon.

Levels

Level Colour Roughly
debug muted thinking, coalesced ticks, ambient harness chatter
info default fg turn start/ok, assistant text, tool calls + results
warn amber, left rule stderr, an unrecognised event shape, API retries
error red, left rule turn failed, a tool result with is_error: true

Per-tool icon + summary formatting (what a Read/Edit/send call's row actually says) lives in stream_enrich.rs's fmt_tool_use() family — read that when you need the specifics, this doc doesn't duplicate it.

Markdown

frontend/packages/agent/src/lib/markdown.ts's renderMarkdown() runs marked.parse() through DOMPurify into a <div class="md">. Applied to any TermMsg with body_format: "markdown".

Dashboard side (not covered here)

The main dashboard's message-flow pane is a different shape: broker messages render as .msgrow grid lines, not agent-terminal rows.