Tui

Modes:

• Default (interactive): opens alternate-screen, hides cursor, enters raw mode. r re-fetches data and re-renders. q (or Ctrl-C) exits cleanly with terminal state restored.
• --once: renders once + exits without entering raw mode. Useful when you want a snapshot but not an interactive session.
• --raw: renders once + writes ANSI to stdout WITHOUT entering alternate screen. Pipe-friendly. Implies --once.
• --no-color: strips foreground color codes (keeps box drawing + cursor positioning). Useful in pipelines that re-render the output.
• --reset-only: recovery hatch. Emits cursor-show + alt-screen-leave + SGR-reset escapes then exits. Use after a previous TUI session was killed -9 (terminal state stuck).

Auto-fallback: when stdout is non-TTY (piped, redirected, running in a non-interactive environment), df-tools tui automatically switches to --once --raw mode.

Locked v1.1 limitations: read-only (no mutations), manual refresh only (no auto-poll), 3 stacked panels (no multi-pane layouts), r and q are the only keystrokes accepted.

Composes obj 1 (gh chain) + obj 2 (peer awareness) + obj 5 (initiatives) + obj 6 (todo aggregation cache) into a single screen.

node ~/.claude/devflow/bin/df-tools.cjs tui $ARGUMENTS

The CLI:

1. Parses flags: --once, --raw, --no-color, --reset-only.
2. Detects TTY: non-TTY stdout/stdin auto-falls back to --once --raw (warning to stderr).
3. Loads data from existing sources (no new fetchers): obj 2 readCache(cwd) for peer + cached org sections; obj 5 loadInitiatives({}) for global initiatives home.
4. For interactive mode: writes alt-screen + hide-cursor escapes; registers cleanup on process.on('exit') + SIGINT + SIGTERM; enters raw mode; renders; awaits keystrokes.
5. For one-shot/raw mode: renders to stdout once + exits 0.

After the command runs:

• If invoked from chat (non-TTY context): the output is rendered ANSI; present it in a code block so it preserves verbatim. Do NOT summarize the panels — the user wants the structured view, not a paraphrase.
• If invoked from an interactive terminal: control returns when the user presses q or Ctrl-C. The user has already seen the TUI; no further presentation needed.

If the user reports their terminal is "stuck" (cursor missing, screen weird) after a previous TUI session: run node ~/.claude/devflow/bin/df-tools.cjs tui --reset-only.

• Peer sessions — git checkout <branch> to switch to a peer's work, or gh issue view <issue> for the GH context.
• Initiatives — /devflow:initiatives show <slug> to see the full initiative body (Why, Open Questions, Sub-issues).
• Org tree entries — gh issue view <issue> for the upstream tracking issue.

Locked v1.1 decisions (relevant to user expectations):

• Hand-rolled ANSI rendering (no TUI library dependency); ~600-line render module.
• Refresh model: manual only (r keypress); no auto-poll. By design — eliminates flicker + battery drain in idle terminals.
• Snapshot-tested: every render scenario has a committed expected ANSI fixture; pure-function renderer is deterministic.
• Future TUI features (selection, drill-down, mutations) are explicitly v1.2+ scope.

Subcommand options:

• df-tools tui — interactive mode (default).
• df-tools tui --once — render once, exit cleanly. No alt-screen, no raw mode.
• df-tools tui --raw — render once, write ANSI to stdout. Pipe-friendly. Implies --once.
• df-tools tui --no-color — strip foreground color codes. Useful with --raw for pipelines.
• df-tools tui --reset-only — emit recovery escapes (cursor-show + alt-screen-leave + SGR-reset). Use after a killed session.

Requires obj 2 awareness cache (/devflow:awareness scan-peer) and obj 5 initiatives (/devflow:initiatives sync) for the richest view. With neither cached, the TUI still renders — it just shows "(no peer sessions)" / "(no org context)" / "(no initiatives)" placeholders. Never crashes (SC-8 resilience).

Triggers

Use when the user wants to see what's happening across parallel sessions, get a high-level view of the program/initiative landscape, or visualize where their current work sits in the org. Also fires on: "show tui", "program viewer", "show peer sessions", "what's everyone working on", "tui viewer".