Frontier Terminal UI/UX Catalog
Survey of the live, animated terminal UI in the latest installed frontier CLIs (captured 2026-06-30): Claude Code 2.1.170 (strings extracted directly from the binary) and Codex CLI 0.142.4 (official docs + GitHub issues).
Use when designing or reviewing GEODE CLI/REPL surfaces — spinners, live status lines, token/elapsed readouts, streaming updates, progress affordances. The motivating example is the composite live status line that updates several times a second:
✢ Hyperspacing… (7m 29s · ↓ 27.7k tokens · thought for 7s)
Reference (load on demand)
reference.md— the full catalog: status-line composition, spinner verb sets and cadences, streaming/interrupt affordances, and per-surface behaviour notes for both CLIs.