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Summary

  • Host-side ratatui TUI that takes over hm run, hm dev up, and hm cloud build watch when stdout is a TTY. Mission Control layout: animated DAG graph, gantt timeline, focusable log pane, summary card.
  • Non-TTY (CI, pipes, NO_COLOR, --no-tui) falls through to the existing WASM human output plugin unchanged.
  • One additive host fn (hm_build_event_emit) so the embedded cloud plugin can drive the host TUI from its WASM watch loop. Wire types and HM_PLUGIN_API_VERSION are unchanged.
  • Single dark theme; tachyonfx sparkle/fade/slide effects with a 5-effect budget; --no-fx and NO_COLOR disable animation.
  • 6 insta snapshot tests for the widgets; 92 unit tests total, all green.
  • vhs tapes for hm run and hm dev up plus a CI smoke workflow at .github/workflows/demo.yml that exercises the run tape on TUI-touching PRs.

The two docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/*-tui-mission-control*.md files are deleted here — they were in-progress planning docs that were committed to main earlier in the brainstorming session and shouldn't ship in the repo.

Test plan

  • cargo build -p harmont-cli clean
  • cargo test -p harmont-cli --lib — 92 passed
  • cargo build -p hm-plugin-cloud --target wasm32-wasip1 clean (embedded plugin rebuild)
  • Manual: hm run --no-tui in examples/rust falls back to the streaming formatter (verified during implementation)
  • Manual: hm run in a TTY enters the Mission Control TUI and shows the summary card on completion
  • Manual: hm dev up in a TTY (with a deploy example) enters the TUI
  • Manual: hm cloud build watch in a TTY enters the TUI (requires staging cloud + an in-flight build)
  • CI: demo-tape-smoke workflow exits clean
  • docs/demo/run.gif regenerated (vhs not available in the dev env; will be produced by CI or locally before merge)

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • Generate docs/demo/run.gif (and PNG) so the README embed renders. CI will produce it on the first PR touching crates/hm/src/tui/.
  • Add examples/dev-demo/ with a minimal @hm.deploy registration so docs/demo/dev.tape can be smoke-tested in CI.
  • Split tui::run (currently 169-line tokio::select! loop) into key/mouse/render helpers — flagged by the final reviewer as worth a follow-up refactor.
  • Clippy nursery's future_not_send cascades 7 false positives because tachyonfx::Shader: !Send. Consider #[allow(clippy::future_not_send)] on tui::run once the lint behavior is confirmed acceptable.

Host-side ratatui-based TUI for hm run / dev / cloud build watch,
designed to be the easiest and most screenshot-worthy way to run a
Harmont deployment. Mission Control layout (animated DAG + gantt
timeline + log pane + summary card), tachyonfx for subtle effects,
NO_COLOR / non-TTY falls back to the existing human plugin.

Single protocol-level addition: hm_build_event_emit host fn so the
embedded cloud plugin can drive the host TUI from its WASM watch
loop without lifting that loop out of the sandbox.
Maps the 2026-05-22-tui-mission-control-design spec onto bite-sized
TDD tasks across 7 phases: foundation, event model + reducer,
adapters (local/dev/cloud with the new hm_build_event_emit host fn),
terminal/theme/fx, widgets (insta snapshot tests), main loop +
overlays, command wiring (run/dev/cloud build watch), and demo
artifacts + CI tape smoke.
Also enables uuid v4+v5 features in crates/hm to support
uuid_from_deploy_id (Uuid::new_v5 for deterministic deploy IDs).
- Remove dead `use std::time::Instant` import and `_instant_unused_marker` fn
- Add `#[allow(clippy::map_entry)]` on `apply` with comment explaining
  why entry() can't replace contains_key+insert in DeployLog arm
- Rewrite `cycle_focus` using `isize/usize::try_from` to eliminate
  unsafe numeric casts
- Add `#[must_use]` to `AppState::new()` and `focused_step_id()`
- scheduler.rs: replace `Lagged(_) => continue` with `=> {}` to
  silence clippy::needless_continue in the extra_event_tx forwarder.
- tui/source/local.rs: wrap BuildEvent, TuiEvent, tokio::sync::mpsc,
  and Lagged in backticks in the module doc to satisfy doc_markdown.
- tui/source/local.rs: add comment on chain_idx/label placeholder in
  the StepStart arm explaining the reducer fills these in.
- commands/run/local.rs: annotate the None arg to orchestrator::run
  clarifying TUI wiring is handled separately.
Add tui_event_tx field to OrchestratorState so both the local bus
forwarder and the new cloud-watch host fn share the same TUI sink.
Implement hm_build_event_emit as a raw-bytes host fn that deserialises
a BuildEvent and try_sends it non-blocking into the TUI channel.
Switch the Task 2.2 bus forwarder to read its sender from state_arc
rather than the standalone extra_event_tx parameter.
Adds hm_build_event_emit extern + build_event_emit safe wrapper to the
SDK host module. Cloud build watch now emits BuildStart/StepQueued/
StepStart/StepLog/StepEnd/BuildEnd (and ChainFailed on cancel) instead
of writing raw bytes to stderr.
Full-screen summary card rendered after BuildEnd: HARMONT wordmark via
tui-big-text Quadrant pixels, pass/cache/fail counts, total duration,
cache hit %, and slowest step. Includes insta snapshot test.
TTY-detect in local.rs: when stdout is a terminal, format=human, and
neither --no-tui nor NO_COLOR is set, spawn the TUI alongside the
orchestrator via tui::source::local::spawn(). Thread --no-tui/--no-fx
flags through RunContext instead of env vars (avoids unsafe set_var
under unsafe_code=deny).
These were working docs used while building the TUI. Removing now
that the implementation has landed so the repo doesn't carry
in-progress planning artifacts.
Hardcoded 256-color indices ignored the terminal palette and rendered
poorly on light backgrounds. Swap to ANSI 16 names so the terminal's
own foreground/background mapping applies.
extism wraps a host-fn Err into a wasm trap whose Display string is
just "error while executing at wasm backtrace". The actual anyhow
chain from the host fn was lost. Format the trap with {:#} so the
chain shows, and tracing::error! the host-side cause inside the
docker pull / image_exists impls before extism eats it.
Scheduler always spawned the human formatter, which writes BuildEvent
lines to stdout. With the TUI on the same stdout, those lines scrolled
over the rendered widgets. Gate the output_subscriber spawn on
state.tui_event_tx being None — the TUI is the sink.
Two-phase plan: (1) merge hm-plugin-output-{human,json} into the hm
binary as native formatters, keeping OutputFormatter SDK trait for
external plugins; (2) rewrite hand-rolled cell_mut rendering in the
TUI widgets using ratatui's Paragraph/List/Line/Span types.
Adds output::formatters::{human,json} modules to the hm crate. The
Human struct replicates the WASM plugin's render logic with instance-
owned step_key state (no global Mutex). Json is a stub for Task A2.
Check crate::output::formatters::builtin() first so --format human and
--format json pass validation without being in the registry index. The
available-list in the error path now includes both registry entries and
the hard-coded built-in names (sorted, deduped).
Remove crates/hm-plugin-output-human and crates/hm-plugin-output-json
from the workspace now that their logic lives in crates/hm/src/output/
formatters/ (A1–A5). Workspace Cargo.toml members list updated; no
workspace.dependencies entries referenced these crates.
Replace hand-rolled buf.cell_mut().set_symbol() loops in LogPane with
ratatui's Paragraph + Line + Span types. Snapshot test passes unchanged.
Replace hand-rolled buf.cell_mut/set_symbol loops in graph.rs with
Paragraph + Line + Span, matching the pattern established in log.rs.
Previous run hung at 6h on cargo build --release (resource starvation
on the runner). Debug profile + rust-cache should keep it under 20m.
continue-on-error keeps PR CI green even if vhs flakes — the smoke
test stays useful as an annotation but can't block merges.
Mirrors docker CLI's precedence: DOCKER_HOST > DOCKER_CONTEXT >
~/.docker/config.json currentContext > platform default.

Fixes the Docker Desktop on Linux paper cut: Desktop ships a
'desktop-linux' context pointing at ~/.docker/desktop/docker.sock,
but bollard's connect_with_local_defaults only looks at
/var/run/docker.sock, so `hm run` would bail on a Desktop host
without an explicit DOCKER_HOST export. We now read the context
the same way docker does (sha256(name) -> contexts/meta/<hash>),
so Desktop just works.

Remote HTTPS contexts return a clear "not supported, set
DOCKER_HOST" error rather than silently downgrading — bollard's
ssl feature would pull rustls+ring transitively and isn't worth
it for a niche case.
The two plugin_kv tests each set XDG_CONFIG_HOME (process-global)
to their own tempdir. Run in parallel — which CI does — they
clobber each other's env var between set/read, producing
intermittent None reads. Local repro is hard because higher
parallelism on dev boxes still happens to interleave reads
between the two writes; CI's lower vCPU count widened the
window.

Merge the two tests into one serialised body. No new dev-deps,
no test-thread-counts pinning.
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