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ape-cli-terminal-experience

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Designs the terminal experience of a CLI app the way Claude Code does it -- palette, status glyphs, spinners, progress narration, prompts, confirmations, listings, key hints, and full-screen TUI views. Trigger on "ape cli terminal experience", or whenever the task involves printing to a terminal from a CLI: adding or restyling output, adding a spinner or progress indicator, writing a prompt or confirmation, building a TUI, choosing exit codes, or deciding stdout vs stderr. Also trigger on casual phrasings like "make the output nicer", "add colour", "this CLI looks ugly". Read this before writing the first line of output code.

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# CLI Terminal Experience

A terminal UI that reads like Claude Code: mostly grey, a few deliberate accents, one
line per fact, animation only while something is actually happening, and a plain-text
fallback the moment the output stops being a terminal.

Every rule below is enforceable and testable. Follow them exactly rather than
approximating the vibe.

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## 1. The two laws

**Subtle by default.** Colour marks meaning -- a failure, a value the user will act on
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