hyperhive/docs/web-ui/terminal-rendering.md
iris 07b62612b0 docs: restructure into topic subdirectories, collapse duplicated index
Per mara's go-ahead on hyperhive#3902 ("getting started is good, but
terminal rendering does not go in there i think"):

Moved 21 top-level docs/*.md files into 7 new topic subdirectories
(existing web-ui/, turn-loop/, swarm/, tools/, crates/ untouched):
  getting-started/  setup.md
  agent-lifecycle/  agent-hierarchy.md, approvals.md, persistence.md
  trust-boundary/   boundary.md, security.md
  integrations/     forge.md, matrix.md, github.md, knowledge.md
  networking/       gateway.md, network.md, snapshot-store.md
  scheduler/        jobq.md, coordinator.md, ci.md, observability.md
  process/          conventions.md, gotchas.md, pr-review-gate.md
  web-ui/           terminal-rendering.md (moved into the EXISTING dir,
                    per mara's correction to the original getting-started
                    guess -- it's UI implementation detail, not onboarding)

The physical layout now matches docs/README.md's own topical headers,
which already amounted to this taxonomy -- see the scoping comment on
the issue for the two findings that motivated this (a genuine
duplication between CLAUDE.md's old "Reading paths" list and
docs/README.md's grouped one, since drifted out of sync with each
other; and the flat layout not matching the grouping we already had).

Fixed every cross-reference this moved across the whole repo (~120
files: docs/ internal links at every depth, Rust doc comments, nix
module option docs, crate READMEs) -- verified two ways: a grep sweep
confirming zero remaining references to any old path, and a script
that resolves every markdown link in docs/**/*.md + CLAUDE.md +
README.md against the filesystem and reports anything that doesn't
exist (zero broken links).

Collapsed CLAUDE.md's "Reading paths" section (the duplicate) down to
a pointer at docs/README.md, now the single index. Rewrote
docs/README.md itself to use the new subdirectory paths and added the
one doc it was missing that CLAUDE.md's old copy had (pr-review-gate.md).

Classified all 22 docs/*.md files first via a haiku subagent (mara's
suggestion) on two axes -- proposed grouping and operator-vs-
implementation focus -- before finalizing the taxonomy; spot-checked
the report and found internal inconsistencies (its classification
table disagreed with its own summary section for a few files), so this
taxonomy is my original proposal + the one correction mara gave
directly, not a blind application of the subagent's table. The
operator-focus data it gathered is still useful for a follow-up
content pass (docs skewing 'mixed' rather than pure operator-facing),
not addressed in this PR -- structure only.

nix fmt clean, both pre-push lints clean.
2026-09-02 01:55:37 +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.