Agent Of Empires Daily: Chasing Down TUI Status and Input Bugs
Fifteen merged pull requests today were dominated by a cluster of TUI reliability fixes—stuck session statuses, frozen input, and misrouted keybindings—alongside a continued push to round out the plugin and settings management experience.
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- Show: Agent Of Empires Daily
- Published: 2026-07-17T20:00:39Z
- Audio duration: PT2M54S
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Good evening, it's July 17th, 2026, and this is Agent Of Empires Daily.
The signal today is a cleanup pass on the TUI's handling of session state and input routing, with a side theme of the settings surface continuing to mature.
Start with status detection. PR 2937 fixed sessions stuck showing "Running" when Claude was actually parked on an AskUserQuestion prompt, waiting on the user. Good catch, but it created a regression: PR 2941 had to follow up because that fix left sessions stuck on "Waiting" after an Esc-cancelled prompt. This is a…
Input routing had a similar cluster. PR 2939 fixed Ctrl+C quitting the whole app instead of being forwarded to the agent during live mode — the same guard pattern that already existed for the "q" key just hadn't been applied consistently. PR 2931 scoped the unread marker and Stop action so they don't leak from Agent…
Second theme: the plugin and settings surface keeps expanding. PR 2928 brings the TUI plugin manager up to parity with the web version — install, uninstall, re-approval, live reconciliation. PR 2914 pruned fifteen settings after an audit of about 120, and PR 2935 gave settings search a permanent, discoverable home…
Smaller but notable:…