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Terminal and platforms
- 1The terminal
Kotoba has a terminal. It is not a thin client for the web app: it runs the same engine in the same process, against the same database, the same memory and…
- 2Reading the header
The header is printed once, at launch, and never repaints. Every value in it is asked of the process that is about to answer you — the tool registry, the…
- 3The nineteen slash commands
Type / at the prompt and the completion list shows all nineteen, with no … N more — a list that hides the last command turns / from everything I can do into…
- 4Keys
Three keyboards, depending on what is happening: the prompt, a turn in flight, and a card waiting for an answer. The card has its own page.
- 5The approval card
When she wants to run something on your machine, the turn stops and a card opens. In the interactive terminal it takes one keypress, with no Enter.
- 6Work mode from the terminal
A long job is a background worker that is the same Kotoba, briefed with one goal, running with a bigger tool budget and no turn around it. From the terminal…
- 7The spinner, the phrase and the bar
While she works, the last rows of the window are the only thing moving. They are the answer to "is this thing stuck?", and nothing in them is decorative.
- 8kotoba --once — one question, one answer
One turn, her answer on stdout, exit. It is the form for a script, a cron entry, a shell alias, a keybinding — anywhere a full-screen session would be in the…
- 9Platform support
Kotoba runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. One thing does not run on Windows: the interactive terminal. Everything else does, natively, and this page says…
- 10Windows today
What you actually get, and the commands that get it. Everything here is native — no WSL, no container required.