design-cli-output
Design terminal output for a CLI tool with chalk colors, Unicode glyphs, multiple verbosity levels (human, verbose, quiet, JSON), and consistent voice rules. Covers color palette selection, status indicator design, reporter function architecture, ceremony/narrative output variants, and cross-terminal compatibility. Use when building a new CLI reporter module, adding warm narrative output to an exi
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What it is
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- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Folder
- skills/design-cli-output
- Category
- Design and media
- Licence
- MIT
- Repository last updated
- Nov 6, 2026
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