09 TUI Reference

09 — TUI reference

Updated: 2026-09-29

Nokido ships a terminal UI for multi-agent orchestration. Launch :

python tools/nokido_tui.py

(nokido-cli is the plain terminal client, not this TUI.)

One pane per agent, 10 switchable views, a PTY widget and 23 slash commands (20 from the v13.6 set in app/tui_adapters/commands_adapter.py, plus /clear, /help, /ssh).

🪟 Default layout

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  STATUS    │  CLAUDE     │  GEMINI     │  CODEX                  │
│            │             │             │                         │
│  hub: UP   │  > prompt   │  > question │  > command              │
│  ring: 0   │  ...reply.. │  ...reply.. │  ...reply...            │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│  CLINE     │  MASTER     │  RAG  (Ctrl+K to toggle)              │
│            │  (owner)    │  recent anchors + lessons             │
└────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
│ Compose box ─ @target message ─ Ctrl+B broadcast ─ Ctrl+Q quit   │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

⌨️ Keybindings

Global

The BINDINGS list of tools/nokido_tui.py, as of 2026-09-29 :

Key	Action
Tab	Focus next pane
Ctrl+B	Broadcast message to all (@all)
Ctrl+K	Toggle RAG pane (not Ctrl+M: terminals send it as Enter)
Ctrl+E / Ctrl+S / Ctrl+T	Toggle evolution / services / tasks view
Ctrl+D / Ctrl+V / Ctrl+F	Toggle health / events / forge view
Ctrl+G	Toggle RBAC view
Ctrl+P	Toggle PTY widget (interactive shell)
Ctrl+U	Filter panes with unread messages
Ctrl+L	OPSEC lock (mute the LLM panes)
Ctrl+R	Refresh all panes
Ctrl+Q	Quit
F1	Help modal
F3	Cycle through views
0–9	Jump to view N (0 = none, 1 services, 2 tasks, 3 health, 4 events, 5 forge, 6 RAG, 7 evolution, 8 RBAC, 9 PTY)

Compose box

Key	Action
Enter	Send message to focused pane's agent
Ctrl+Enter	Insert newline
@<agent>	Prefix to direct-message (@claude, @gemini, …)
@all	Broadcast to every connected agent

🔁 Slash commands

Type any of these in the compose box. Source : app/tui_adapters/commands_adapter.py (20) and tools/nokido_tui.py (/clear, /help, /ssh). /cmds lists them live.

Command	What it does
/run <cmd>	Shell via the hub run tool, with a danger check
/rag <query> · /mem <query>	RAG search via the hub (/mem is an alias)
/agentic <skill> · /disco	Competence check + library lookup (/disco alias)
/evolve [status] · /loop · /apply	State of forge_self_patcher + auto-evolution loop (aliases)
/role [name]	Switch or list roles via the hub role tool
/model [name]	Switch the Ollama provider / list
/ollama [list|show <m>|ps]	Relay to the Ollama API
/audit	Open :7400/reports in the browser
/code <spec>	Run the software-creator pipeline
/test [path]	Run pytest via the hub (timeout 90 s)
/sandbox <python code>	Execute via the hub run action=python (timeout 60 s)
/nlu <text>	Classify intent via forge_nlu (chat / action / rag)
/estim	Token-cost monitor report
/chain <agents...>	forge_handoff swarm execution
/scan	Opens :7400/recon — a page removed with the offensive-surface separation (2026-09-27) : dead link, to fix in the adapter
/cmds	List every slash command
/ssh <host>	PTY SSH
/clear · /help	Clear the pane · help modal (F1)

🎨 Ten views (F3 to cycle, 0–9 to jump)

0 none (the agent chat grid alone) · 1 services · 2 tasks (mailbox + jobs) · 3 health (heartbeats, latencies, errors) · 4 events (Deno bus stream) · 5 forge · 6 RAG · 7 evolution (EVOLUTION_TREE) · 8 RBAC · 9 PTY. Each view has its adapter in app/tui_adapters/.

🖥️ PTY widget (Ctrl+P)

Embedded interactive shell powered by asyncssh + pyte (app/tui_adapters/pty_adapter.py). Useful for :

• SSH to a netcfg-agent equipment without leaving the TUI.
• Run a quick python -c "..." against the local venv.
• Tail a log file live.

Exit with Ctrl+D.

🧠 Session state

The TUI keeps its session (focused pane, unread counters for Ctrl+U, layout) and persists it between launches in nokido_persist/tui_session.json.

🚦 Status indicators

Top-left STATUS pane shows :

• hub : UP / DOWN / LAG (latency >2s on /health).
• ring : your current ring.
• OPSEC : OFF / ON (Ctrl+L toggle — hides cloud LLM panes).
• agents : count of connected agents.
• mailbox : unread message count.

🎙️ EVOLUTION_TREE pane (v13.6)

Shows :

• Skill tree — installed skills + dependency arrows.
• Module graph — recent forge_*.py edits + their RAG centrality.
• Lessons — last N anchor_solution() entries.

🛠️ Customization

Add a custom pane

Agent panes come from the AGENTS list of tools/nokido_tui.py (id, label, color, tag) : add an entry and relaunch the TUI — compose() builds one AgentPaneWidget per entry. A new view is an adapter in app/tui_adapters/ plus its binding.

Change keybindings

Edit the BINDINGS list in tools/nokido_tui.py, then relaunch.

📦 Persistence

Path	What's in it
nokido_persist/tui_session.json	Session state, unread counters, pane layout.
per-agent heartbeats	Read by the health / forge adapters.
the hub's RAG base	All RAG content. Read-only for the TUI.

⚠️ Known issues

• The PTY widget on Windows requires pyte >= 0.8.2 and Windows Terminal (not legacy cmd.exe) for proper escape sequence rendering.
• The Deno event stream pane requires proxy_deno/web_hub to be running. Empty pane otherwise.
• New pane or view additions should re-run the adapter tests : pytest tests/test_tui_adapters_*.py.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Black screen on launch → check terminal encoding. Set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 and PYTHONUTF8=1.
• Panes show "no agent connected" → check the hub is up at :8766 and the agent has authenticated at least once (its heartbeat is then visible in the health view, 3).
• Slash commands not recognized → verify commands_adapter is loaded ; the table lives in app/tui_adapters/commands_adapter.py.