The TUI

Since 0.72.0 baro's terminal UI is a workbench: an icon rail, an explorer with your agents and changed files, a main view that switches between activity, plan, stats, diff and decisions — and an input strip that lets you talk to a running agent.

Layout

┌ BARO · project · goal · mode · ● running · 2/4 · time · tokens ────┐
│ ┌────┐ ┌ Agents ───────────┐ ┌ activity — S2 ────────────────────┐ │
│ │ 1A │ │ ▶ S1 title        │ │ $ npm test                        │ │
│ │ 2P │ │   codex           │ │ ▷ you → S2: also cover the empty  │ │
│ │ 3S │ │ ▶ S2 title ✓critic│ │ › Adding the edge case now…       │ │
│ │ 4D │ │   claude:opus     │ │                                   │ │
│ │ 5◆ │ │ Changes (3)       │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ └────┘ └───────────────────┘                                       │
├ progress ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
└ ● running · run id · branch · PR ──────────────────────────────────┘

Every agent row carries live signal pills as the run unfolds: ↻2 retries, ✓/✗critic verdicts, ⚠stall when the Supervisor intervenes, ✓merged when the story's work lands, ✂replan when the Surgeon rewires the plan — plus the backend/model the story was routed to, on its own line.

The plan view (key 2) shows the dependency graph with live level states, replan surgery (added stories marked +, removed ones struck through with the reason) and recovery attempts as their own sections.

Talk to a running agent

Select an agent in the explorer (Tab → arrows) and press m. The bottom strip becomes an input — type and press Enter:

→ S2 ▸ also add a test for the empty-output edge case▌   Enter send · Esc cancel

The message is delivered to that agent on its next turn (the same channel the Critic uses for corrective feedback), echoed into the activity feed as ▷ you → S2: …, and recorded in the audit log. Backends differ in how promptly they pick messages up; the message is never lost — it rides the bus.

After a successful run the same input strip handles follow-ups: press f and describe the next change — baro continues on the same PR.

Keys

Selecting an agent pins the activity feed to it; selecting a file under Changes jumps the diff view to that file. On narrow terminals the rail and explorer collapse automatically — everything stays reachable via the keys.