* fix(tui): show picker labels as written instead of parsing markup
SelectScreen passed thread titles and model display names to Textual as
plain str, which Textual parses as content markup. A thread title such as
'Fix [/bold] in parser' raised MarkupError and exited the app whenever
/threads opened, and '[a]' vanished from the list. Wrap the title and
option labels in Rich Text so they render literally.
* docs(changelog): reference #7631 for the TUI picker markup fix
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* fix(tui): let quit skip an interrupted run's unfinished step
After Ctrl+C the synchronous agent stream keeps running until its next
event. The run was a Textual thread worker, i.e. a thread on asyncio's
default executor, which App.run() joins on shutdown (up to 300 s on
3.12) and interpreter exit joins again with no timeout. Quitting while
a long step was still running therefore hung silently after the
terminal had been restored, and further Ctrl+C presses only printed a
traceback.
Run workers on a daemon thread instead. Quit now waits visibly for
running workers (an interrupted step still checkpoints, a finished run
still saves its title) and refuses sends meanwhile; a second quit
request exits at once. Report unexpected worker exceptions as an error
row and end the run, since Textual no longer catches them.
* docs(changelog): reference #7326 for the TUI quit-after-interrupt fix
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* fix(tui): keep every word of an unquoted --print/--json message
--print and --json took a single optional value and never read the
positional words, so `deerflow --print summarize this repo` sent only
"summarize", `deerflow summarize this repo --print` exited 2 asking for a
message on a terminal, and with piped stdin the typed words were ignored.
Both flags now take every following word and fall back to words given
before them, as --cli does; a typed message wins over piped stdin. A
message split around the flag is refused with exit 2, because argparse
loses the word order between the two parts.
* docs(changelog): reference #6636
* fix(tui): refuse --print and --json together
Only one headless mode runs, so the other flag's words were dropped:
'--print hello --json world' ran with 'hello', and '--print --json hello'
asked for a message. Put both flags in a mutually exclusive group so argparse
exits 2 for every combination.
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* fix(tui): wait for an interrupted run before sending to its thread
Textual cannot stop a thread worker, so after an interrupt the agent
stream keeps running until its next event. A tool step already in
progress still completes and checkpoints while a new prompt runs on the
same thread; whichever run checkpoints last becomes the thread's state,
so the new turn could drop out of the conversation history.
Track when each worker actually starts and returns (Textual reports a
cancelled thread worker finished at once) and reject sends to a thread
whose interrupted worker is still running. Other threads stay usable,
and a worker cancelled before it started holds nothing.
* docs(changelog): reference #6350 for the interrupted TUI run fix
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* fix(tui): preserve multiline pasted input
The TUI composer used a single-line `Input`, so a bracketed paste
containing code, a stack trace, or multiple paragraphs kept only the
first line when submitted. The composer is now a multiline `TextArea`:
Enter still submits, Up/Down move inside the document before falling
back to input history at the first/last line, and the slash palette is
unchanged.
Originally #4630 by @felix-windsor, cherry-picked onto current main;
conflicts in app.py key gating (transcript paging keys), test imports,
and the relocated TUI docs were resolved by hand.
Fixes#4613
* fix(tui): submit multiline input unchanged and document the widgets layer
Address the review on #4630:
- Send non-command input to the agent and history exactly as typed or
pasted. Only the empty-input check uses strip(), so leading
indentation and trailing newlines in pasted code and stack traces
survive. Slash commands are still trimmed so they resolve as before.
- widgets/composer.py imports Textual, so the module-layout notes in
tui/AGENTS.md and docs/TUI.md now exempt widgets/ alongside app.py.
- Cover pressing Down on the last document line (history fallback),
whitespace-only input, and slash commands with surrounding whitespace.
Co-authored-by: Felix <felixwindsor3344@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): treat soft-wrapped rows as composer navigation boundaries
TextArea soft-wraps long lines, and its Up/Down move between the wrapped
rows of one logical line. The history fallback only looked at logical
rows, so Up from the second visual row of a long prompt recalled history
instead of moving the cursor, and Down from its first visual row could
replace the draft with history's empty value.
Use the TextArea navigator's first/last wrapped-row checks for the
boundaries, and cover wrapped prompts in both directions. Also restore a
tui/AGENTS.md sentence about PageUp/PageDown to the app.py entry it
belongs to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(cli): exit non-zero when a headless run ends in an LLM error fallback
LLMErrorHandlingMiddleware turns provider failures (e.g. an expired
credential returning 401) into an AIMessage flagged
`deerflow_error_fallback` instead of raising. The Gateway run status and
the subagent executor already treat that flag as a failure. #5963 gave
`deerflow --print` / `--json` an error boundary for raised exceptions,
but a flagged fallback never raises, so both modes still printed the
fallback text and exited 0.
Both headless modes now follow #5963's failure contract when the run's
final AI message carries the flag: `--print` keeps the fallback text on
stdout and adds an `Error:` line on stderr; `--json` appends the terminal
`{"type": "error"}` record. Both exit 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(cli): share final-answer accumulation with the embedded client
* docs: scope headless accumulator guidance to TUI
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* fix(tui): report headless --print/--json failures instead of leaking tracebacks
The headless --print and --json runners dispatched straight into the
embedded client with no error boundary, so session-creation, thread-
resolution, chat, and stream failures escaped main() and surfaced as
unhandled Python tracebacks from the console script - for example the
documented CheckpointModeMismatchError case, which the checkpoint
operations/troubleshooting docs recorded as a raw traceback.
Both runners now catch Exception (KeyboardInterrupt/SystemExit still
propagate), mirroring the TUI's stream_actions() boundary:
- --print writes one concise 'Error: ...' line to stderr and returns 1
- --json appends a terminal {"type": "error"} record to the NDJSON
stream (diagnostics stay on stderr) and returns 1; every stdout line
remains independently valid JSON, including failures mid-stream
The checkpoint operations/troubleshooting docs (en + zh) no longer
describe the headless runners as printing an uncaught traceback.
Fixes#5962
* fix(tui): close the broken-pipe edge and document the --json error contract
Review follow-ups on #5963 (both non-blocking):
- print(answer) sat outside the headless boundary, so a consumer closing
the pipe early (deerflow --print ... | head) still got a
BrokenPipeError traceback plus the interpreter's shutdown-flush noise.
The final --print write and the --json terminal error-record write now
catch BrokenPipeError, point the stdout descriptor at devnull (the
documented SIGPIPE-adjacent recipe) and exit 1 without a traceback.
- The terminal {"type": "error"} record is a real contract for --json
scripters but was only documented in the checkpoint pages; the
backend/docs/TUI.md command table and the README cheat line now state
the error record and the exit-1 semantics where CLI consumers look.
* implement goal continuations
* fix(goal): address review findings for goal continuations
- goal: key the no-progress breaker on a signature of the latest visible
assistant evidence instead of the evaluator's volatile free-text, so it
actually fires on stalled turns; thread the signature through every
worker persist / no-progress call site
- goal: align _stand_down_reason default caps with should_continue_goal
(8 / 2) so the two gate functions agree on goals missing the fields
- runtime: offload the synchronous checkpointer fallback via
asyncio.to_thread (goal.py + worker.py) to keep blocking IO off the loop
- frontend: i18n the GoalStatus "Goal" label (goalLabel in en/zh/types)
- frontend: extract pure composer helpers into input-box-helpers.ts with
unit tests (parseGoalCommand, readGoalResponseError, skill suggestions)
- tests: cover the evidence-based no-progress and default-cap behavior
- docs: align backend/AGENTS.md goal paragraph with actual behavior
- e2e: prettier-format chat.spec.ts (fixes the lint-frontend CI failure)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(frontend): hide goal continuation counter until the agent continues
The goal status bar rendered a raw "0/8" before any auto-continuation, which
read as a mysterious score. Now the counter is hidden until
continuation_count > 0, then shows "Continuing N/M" with a tooltip explaining
the auto-continuation cap.
- Extract getGoalContinuationDisplay into a pure helper (hides at 0) + unit tests
- Add goalContinuing / goalContinuationTooltip i18n keys (en/zh/types)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(goal): address review findings for goal continuations
Frontend correctness
- Fix the optimistic /goal result permanently shadowing server goal state:
the streamed continuation counter never surfaced for a goal set in-session.
Extract a shared useActiveGoal hook (used by both chat pages) that reconciles
the optimistic copy with server state via a goalReconciliationKey, de-duping
the copy-pasted goal block across the two pages.
- Stop /goal status|clear failures from escaping handleSubmit as unhandled
rejections (handleGoalCommand now returns success; the run only starts when a
goal was actually saved).
- Use a function replacer for the goal-status toast so an objective containing
$&/$1 isn't treated as a replacement pattern.
Backend cleanliness / correctness
- De-duplicate four byte-identical helpers (_call_checkpointer_method,
_message_type, _additional_kwargs, _is_visible_message) by importing them
from runtime.goal instead of re-defining them in the run worker.
- Remove the dead `checkpoint_tuple.tasks` durability guard (CheckpointTuple has
no tasks field) and document that pending_writes is the durability signal.
- Decompose the 176-line _prepare_goal_continuation_input: extract
_reread_goal_and_checkpoint and a _persist closure so the thread-unchanged
guard and stand-down persistence aren't open-coded three times. Document the
last-writer-wins write-window limitation as a follow-up.
- Add a shared parse_goal_command helper and use it from the TUI and IM-channel
/goal handlers (one place for the status/clear/set semantics).
Tests
- Restore the 11 command-registry tests dropped by the previous goal change
(filter_commands ranking/description, build_registry builtins/skills, resolve
cases) alongside the new goal tests.
- Add coverage for the IM-channel _handle_goal_command, the TUI _handle_goal
handler, parse_goal_command, and goalReconciliationKey.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix goal review feedback
* fix goal continuation checkpoint races
* prioritize goal commands while streaming
Route composer submits through a shared helper so /goal commands can be handled before the streaming stop shortcut, while ordinary streaming submits still stop the active run.
Testing: cd frontend && pnpm exec rstest run tests/unit/components/workspace/input-box-helpers.test.ts tests/unit/components/workspace/goal-status-helpers.test.ts; cd frontend && pnpm check
* preserve goal status during clarification
Keep omitted stream goal fields distinct from explicit null clears so clarification interrupts do not hide an active thread goal that is still present in the checkpoint.
Testing: pnpm exec rstest run tests/unit/components/workspace/use-active-goal.test.ts tests/unit/components/workspace/input-box-helpers.test.ts tests/unit/components/workspace/goal-status-helpers.test.ts; pnpm check; git diff --check
* style: format active goal hook
Run Prettier on use-active-goal.ts to satisfy the frontend lint workflow formatting gate.
Testing: pnpm format; pnpm exec rstest run tests/unit/components/workspace/use-active-goal.test.ts tests/unit/components/workspace/input-box-helpers.test.ts tests/unit/components/workspace/goal-status-helpers.test.ts; pnpm check; git diff --check
* fix goal review followups
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* feat(tui): add Hermes-like terminal workbench backed by DeerFlowClient
Implements the `deerflow` TUI from RFC #3540: a terminal-native, embedded
workbench over the existing harness (no Gateway/frontend/nginx/Docker), built
Python-native with Textual and learning UX patterns from tao-pi.
Architecture — every layer except the Textual app is pure and unit-tested:
- view_state.py: ViewState + reduce(state, action), the testable heart
- runtime.py: StreamEvent -> reducer actions (pure translate + threaded driver)
- message_format / command_registry / input_history / render / theme: pure
- app.py: Textual App; runs the sync DeerFlowClient.stream() on a worker thread
and marshals actions back to the UI thread. Slash command palette, model and
thread modal pickers, ↑/↓ history, Ctrl+C interrupt, TTY-aware fallback.
- cli.py: pure launch-mode planning + headless --print/--json + `deerflow`
console script (textual is an optional [tui] extra; degrades to headless help)
Web UI visibility (the RFC's key decision): persistence.py writes a threads_meta
row under the local default user into the same DB the Gateway reads, so terminal
sessions appear in the Web UI sidebar without running the Gateway. Best-effort,
no-op on the memory backend; all DB work on one long-lived background loop.
Tests: 95 TUI tests — pure layers via pytest, app/palette/overlays via Textual's
pilot harness with a fake session, and a threads_meta read/write round-trip.
ruff clean; respects the harness->app import boundary. Docs: backend/docs/TUI.md
plus CLAUDE.md/README updates and preview screenshots.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): de-duplicate streamed assistant text and tool cards; keep Tab in composer
Self-test surfaced three issues, all root-caused to consuming non-strict
streaming from DeerFlowClient (proven by the client's own
test_dedup_requires_messages_before_values_invariant, which shows the client can
re-emit a message id's full content twice):
- Assistant text was doubled (e.g. "answer answer") because the reducer blindly
concatenated same-id deltas. Now merges by content: a re-send or cumulative
snapshot replaces; only genuine increments append.
- Tool activity showed duplicate and empty "gear" cards from partial/re-emitted
tool-call chunks. ToolStarted now de-dupes by tool_call_id, drops id-less
noise chunks, and fills the name on a later chunk; a tool result with no prior
card still surfaces as a completed card.
- Tab moved focus off the composer to the scroll region (felt like broken cursor
logic). Tab is now consumed by the composer (completes a command when the
palette is open, no-op otherwise).
Adds reducer tests for each case plus a Tab-focus test; 102 TUI tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): make Esc interrupt an active run (matches the status hint)
The status line advertised "esc interrupt" but Esc was only wired to close the
slash palette, so it did nothing during a run. Esc now: closes the palette when
open, interrupts the active run when streaming, and is a no-op when idle. The
interrupt logic is shared with Ctrl+C via _interrupt_run(). Adds a regression
test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): stop prior answers duplicating on threads with history
On a thread with history, DeerFlowClient re-emits every prior message on each
new turn (its streamed_ids dedup is per-stream-call), and a re-emitted older
message can arrive after a newer message has already started. The reducer only
matched the *most recent* assistant row by id and otherwise appended, so each
re-emitted older answer was duplicated verbatim at the end of the transcript.
Match an assistant row by id anywhere in the transcript and merge in place.
Tool cards already de-dupe by call id globally, so they were unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): correct CJK cursor drift in the composer
Confirmed a Textual Input bug (latest 8.2.7): Input._cursor_offset adds an
unconditional +1 at the end of the value, overshooting by one cell after
double-width (CJK) characters. That misplaces the hardware/IME cursor — the
drift seen when typing Chinese in iTerm2 (the on-screen block cursor, drawn
separately in render_line, is fine; English doesn't use an IME so it looks
correct). Reproduced with a bare Input, so it's upstream, not our layout.
Add ComposerInput(Input) overriding _cursor_offset to the true cell position and
use it for the composer. Numeric tests pin the CJK end/mid and ASCII cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(tui): render finalized assistant messages as Markdown
The transcript showed raw Markdown (literal **bold**, ## headings, - lists,
links). Finalized assistant messages now render as Rich Markdown — headings,
bold/italic, lists, inline code + code blocks, blockquotes, horizontal rules and
links — with the ● speaker marker aligned to the top of the body.
The actively-streaming message stays plain text so partial Markdown doesn't
reflow/jump, then snaps to its rendered form when the run ends. Transcript
re-renders are coalesced on a ~60ms timer (dirty flag) so per-token Markdown
re-parsing stays smooth on long threads. Tests cover both the rendered and the
streaming-plain paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(tui): apply ruff format
CI lint runs `ruff format --check` via uvx (latest ruff); apply the formatter so
the lint-backend job passes. No behavior change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(tui): address code-quality review comments
From github-code-quality[bot] on #3760:
- runtime.py: give the `_ClientLike` Protocol method a docstring body instead of
a bare `...` (flagged as a no-effect statement), matching the harness
convention for Protocol stubs (e.g. SafetyTerminationDetector).
- test_tui_cli_main.py: drop the unnecessary `lambda: _FakeSession()` wrappers in
monkeypatch.setattr; pass `_FakeSession` directly (same behavior).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): keep history Markdown-rendered when a follow-up run starts
Previously the transcript rendered "the last assistant row" as plain text while
streaming. But when a follow-up turn starts, the last assistant row is the
*previous, finalized* answer until the new message begins — and the client
re-emits prior messages early in the turn — so sending a follow-up reverted the
previous answer from rendered Markdown back to raw text.
Track the actively-streaming message id in ViewState instead: it's reset on
RunStarted, set only when an AssistantDelta actually adds new content (history
re-emits are no-ops and don't mark it), and cleared on RunEnded. The renderer
keeps only that one message plain; all history stays Markdown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(readme): add Terminal Workbench (TUI) section to root README
Mention the new `deerflow` TUI alongside the Embedded Python Client in the root
README.md and README_zh.md (install, launch/headless commands, feature summary,
Web UI visibility), with a ToC entry and a preview screenshot. Links to
backend/docs/TUI.md for the full guide.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tui): address review feedback (willem-bd)
Ten findings from the TUI code review:
1. /resume was dead-ended — registered + in /help + tested as a builtin, but no
dispatch branch. Wired it to thread resolution / the switcher.
2. --resume <title> was forwarded raw into the checkpointer (blank thread).
Added Session.resolve_ref() to resolve id-or-title via list_threads; used by
--resume and /resume.
3. str(get("id","")) returned "None" for an explicit id:None (truthy), defeating
the empty-id guard so unrelated null-id tool calls collapsed into one card.
Coerce via a None-safe helper.
4. Headless --print/--json no longer spin up the persistence loop/engine/pool
(open_session(persistence=False)).
5. _LoopThread + engine are now closed: Session.close() (dispose engine + stop
loop) called from a try/finally around app.run().
6. --cli --continue (and piped --cli) now run headless instead of erroring.
7. Cancelled runs no longer persist a truncated title (guard on _cancelled).
8. Palette highlight resets to the top when the filter set changes.
9. Dropped the never-populated tools count from the header.
10. Documented the `not row.error` merge guard.
Adds regression tests for each; 126 TUI tests pass, ruff check + format clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>
