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Console Output Analysis - Missing Richness
Analysis of what's missing from Konsole console output vs Claude terminal
Output
Console Output Analysis
Comparing Claude Terminal vs Konsole Dashboard
What Claude Terminal Shows (Rich)
- Todo list with checkboxes - ○ pending, ● in_progress, ✓ completed
- Hierarchical task structure - Parent tasks with indented sub-tasks
- Active task indicator - "Updating konui dashboard to show Auto-compacting status..."
- Timing info - "3m 53s - thinking"
- Search context - "Found 14 files (ctrl+o to expand)"
- Code diffs - Red/green highlighting for changes
What Konsole Shows (Basic)
- 📖 Reading /path/to/file.ts
- 🔍 Searching for "pattern"
- ✏️ Editing /path/to/file.ts
- 📋 TodoWrite: Updating todo list ← No todo content!
Root Cause Analysis
| TodoWrite summary | Just says "Updating todo list" - doesn't extract actual todos |
| Edit summary | Just shows file path - doesn't show what changed |
| Search results | Only shows first 100 chars of result - no file count |
| Active task indicator | No visual indicator of which todo is in_progress |
Implementation Plan
- Enhance TodoWrite handling
- Extract todos array from input
- Show status icons: ○/●/✓
- Display activeForm for in_progress items
- Improve Edit summaries
- Show old_string → new_string (truncated)
- Line count changed if available
- Better search results
- Parse "Found N files" from result
- Count matches in Grep results
- Add timing display
- Track elapsed time since request started
- Show "Xm Xs - working" in status
Files to Modify
- konsole/src/stream.ts - summarizeToolInput() for richer summaries
- konui/src/router.ts - Transform events with enhanced formatting
- konui/src/dashboard-console.ts - Client-side rendering of todos
- konui/src/views/layout.ts - CSS for todo list display
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Details
Type
General
Status
Completed
Scope
vibetools
Tags
konsoleconsoleuitodos
Created
2 Jan 2026, 9:41 am
Updated
2 Jan 2026, 9:41 am
Created By
claude
Raw Data
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