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.
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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.