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Cosmetic refinements on top of v0.5.0's content-only main pane. No
behavior change; ships as a patch bump.
## Color signal — terminal labels tinted per outcome
The transcript's [done]/[error]/[cancelled] labels were plain
foreground (Australis #a9bcc3 white), which made them slow to scan
against the surrounding assistant text. Now tinted per outcome:
- [done] → Aurora green (#16B866 / $success)
- [error] → Dawn red (#ff491a / $error)
- [cancelled] → Dawn yellow (#e1c631 / $warning)
The post-Done Rule() separator is also tinted to Australis dark-60
(#86929d) so the streamed-text → markdown-body boundary reads as
chrome, not a content artifact.
## Empty-state placeholders
Tools and Debug panes were stark-empty before any turn fired — easy
to misread as "the pane is broken." Now show placeholder lines on
mount in Sea dark-50 italic:
Tools tab: (no tool events yet — start a turn that uses tools)
Debug tab: (waiting for telemetry — start a turn)
The placeholders scroll off naturally as real events fill the panes.
## Live thinking widget self-explains
The thinking-current Static at the top of the right column used to
just display raw thinking content with no context — an operator
glancing at the screen mid-stream might not realize they were
looking at LLM chain-of-thought. Now prefixed with "thinking… " so
the widget self-identifies.
## Spacing + chrome
- Transcript / tools-log / debug-log: 1-cell horizontal padding so
content doesn't hug the column border.
- thinking-current: italic text-style on top of the dark-60 color,
so the live-preview band is visually distinct from solid-colored
log content.
- Active tab in TabbedContent: Aurora bright-cyan label + bold
text-style, so the eye lands on the currently selected pane.
- Input placeholder text: tinted to Sea dark-50 so it reads as
placeholder, not content.
## Test impact
3 new tests added (test_done_label_styled_success,
test_empty_state_placeholders_present, plus the polish hits
test_thinking_widget_truncation / test_thinking_coalesce updated for
the "thinking… " prefix). 4 existing tests that checked
`isinstance(w, str) and w.startswith("[done]")` updated to use the
_text_of helper (terminal labels are now RichText, not str).
_spy_writes helper widened to accept positional args after Textual's
internal deferred-render path started passing them positionally
post-Resize.
241/241 GREEN; ruff clean. Live smoke against personal Worldtree
confirmed: Done line renders in Aurora green #16B866 verbatim;
both placeholder lines appear in dark-50; thinking widget shows
"thinking… <content>" during a turn.
Patch bump (v0.5.0 → v0.5.1) per SemVer etiquette: purely cosmetic;
no signature change; no caller-visible behavioral shift.
Ratatoskr
A Worldtree Conversation API debug TUI. Runs up and down Worldtree's API surface — sessions, turns, persona, tools, admin events, Bifrost state — carrying messages between layers. Like the squirrel.
The product is the observability surface; chat is the input mechanism. Devs run Ratatoskr against a local Worldtree to watch a turn flow through every layer of the system, side-by-side, in one terminal.
Status
v0 scaffold. Design locked; implementation hasn't started. The dev team owns the implementation pass.
Read in this order
docs/design-brief.md— the locked design. Read this first. Every architectural decision is recorded with its rationale, the alternatives considered, and (where relevant) the operator's lock-in moment.docs/SPEC-PIN.md— what Worldtree spec version Ratatoskr is built against, where the vendored snapshot lives, and how to bump the pin.docs/conversation-api-spec.md— the vendored Worldtree spec snapshot. Read this to understand the API surface Ratatoskr consumes. Do not import anything from a Worldtree checkout — the boundary is the spec, not the code. Seedocs/design-brief.md§2.CLAUDE.md— Claude Code conventions for this repo (mostly inherited from the Corviduo template).persistent-memory.md— durable intent across context resets. Update as decisions and state evolve.
Quickstart
# 1. Environment
uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
# 2. Verify the spec pin
cat docs/SPEC-PIN.md # documented Worldtree SHA + bump procedure
# 3. Tests (none yet; scaffold only)
uv run pytest
# 4. Run against a local Worldtree (once implementation lands)
# Worldtree must be running: python -m core.conversation_api
ratatoskr --agent mimir
What this repo is NOT
- NOT a polished consumer for Worldtree's end-users — that's the web app.
- NOT a Worldtree admin tool — admin CLI is separate (
sessions_cli.pylives in Worldtree). - NOT a featuretracking shadow of the web app — when the Conversation API surface grows, Ratatoskr does not necessarily grow with it.
- NOT a remote-Worldtree debug client — file-tail surfaces (persona log, server log) assume local-dev posture.
The full negative-clause list lives in docs/design-brief.md §6.
Boundary rule
Ratatoskr depends on three things only:
httpx+httpx-sse(network layer)textual(TUI framework)- Worldtree's published Conversation API spec at the pinned SHA
Hard rule: no imports from a Worldtree checkout. No core.* imports,
no from worldtree.*, no shared models, no submodule of Worldtree. The
spec is the entire surface. Boundary smoke test at tests/test_no_worldtree_imports.py
enforces this in CI.
Version-skew strategy
The dev team is decoupled from Worldtree's dev team. To detect drift when Worldtree changes the API:
- Spec-version pin in
pyproject.toml(worldtree-spec-rev). Bump explicitly; bumps are a tracked action. - Recorded-SSE snapshot tests at
tests/snapshots/. Captured against a live Worldtree; replayed in CI. Re-record after every pin bump. - Conformance smoke test — boots Worldtree via Docker compose in CI, runs a one-turn happy path. Catches integration-level drift.
See docs/SPEC-PIN.md for the bump procedure.
Consumer-side discoveries
If you find a spec gap, ambiguity, or missing-but-needed endpoint while working on Ratatoskr: route the discovery back to worldtree-dev via althing rather than via PR on Worldtree directly. The separate-team boundary is intentional and helps catch spec gaps that an in-tree consumer would paper over.
Related repos
- Worldtree — the API Ratatoskr consumes
- brokkr-smithy — authored this design brief
- Skaldsong — another Worldtree API consumer (Python; render-and-aggregate pattern)
- mead-hall — another Worldtree API consumer (TypeScript; server-side broker)