Frontier UI UX Catalog

Source-grounded catalog of dynamic terminal UI/UX patterns in Claude Code 2.1.170 and Codex CLI 0.142.4 — live status lines, spinner verb sets, streaming and progress affordances. Reference for GEODE CLI/REPL UX work.

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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:

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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.

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