REFERENCE // TERMINAL_UI
TUI
Your central command deck. Launch with ostk tui. Monitor agents, dispatch work, approve tool calls.
PANES
STATUS_BAR Top
Identity counter, boot coherence, uptime, agent states (●active ○stale ✕crashed), open needles, pending hay, API key count
POST Panel
Power-On Self Test. Pipeline throughput: compile → login → delegate → notify. Command: :post
FLEET Panel
Running agents, one row each: ● agent-1 claude-sonnet-4.6 running →573 12s
ACTIVITY Panel
Last 10 audit events. What just happened.
METRICS Side
Tokens saved, compression ratio (HSCP G2)
LOCKS Side
Files currently locked by agents
STORE Side
Files written to .ostk/store/ (output artifacts)
WORK Panel
Needle backlog sorted P0→P3. ▶ = selected. Enter to expand.
OUTPUT Panel
Result of last tack dispatch (kernel output or LLM response)
TACK_BAR Bottom
Multi-line intent editor. Tab to focus, Enter to dispatch.
QUICKLINE Bottom
Single-line fast dispatch. Main tack draft preserved.
CLOCK_BAR Bottom
Session timer, audit count, swap status, context %, date
KEYBOARD_SHORTCUTS
GLOBAL
Tab Cycle focus through panes
↑/↓ or j/k Scroll active pane
PgUp/PgDn Scroll half-page
Esc Cancel / dismiss modal
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+Q Quit
OPT/ALT OVERLAYS
Opt+? Help overlay
Opt+C Context overlay
Opt+F Fleet overlay
Opt+W Work overlay
Opt+M Model picker
Opt+P Mode picker
Opt+G Sphere navigator
Tack Grammar
: Hard command — kernel dispatch :compile, :reap, :status .? Soft probe — query the OS (LLM) .? what is store →NNN Needle reference →573 to see that needle :delegate Assign needle to agent :delegate →573 bare text File as hay (raw intel) thinking about X APPROVAL_MODAL
Appears when an agent requests a tool that needs permission. Shows agent alias, tool name, and input preview.
y Approve
n Deny
a Approve All
Enter Deny (default)
CAPTURE
Record terminal sessions as asciicast v2 files. Zero disruption to the render pipeline — the TeeWriter clones raw ANSI bytes to a background thread.
:capture [path] — start recording. Status bar shows [*].:capture stop — stop recording, return output path.