lab·a prototype, not the shipped app

What does the TUI feel like?

A click-through prototype of the magus.sh terminal app. Use the keyboard (or the rail under the window) — same hotkeys we'd ship. Both devices answer the same five questions and converge the same manifest; switch device to see where their opinions diverge.

device

Same flow, same manifest, different opinions —magus branches on DMI, not on a separate build. The v0.1 command picker still ships as magus with no arguments: .

magus@deck — bash80 × 24

← → step·↑ ↓ move·enter open·r reset

Live readout

screen: splash
picked: 0 / 79
runtime: ~0 min
next key: enter

Decision queue

SettleThe wizard is a manifest builder, nothing more.Five questions write manifest.toml, then the reconciler takes over. Same file the GUI will read.
PrototypeRe-running is the normal case, not the exception.The Steam Machine path ends on doctor — two months later, after an OS update. That's the product.
RiskGhostty and Alacritty aren't wired up in v0.2.Picking them yields a step that says so out loud rather than silently doing nothing.
PrototypeSearch is global from menu, scoped inside a stage./ opens it; this should map directly to Bubble Tea.
SettleReview before write.Presets can add many commands, so the review gate stays useful.
RiskPre-flight Deck checks belong before Run.Waydroid and other Deck-only commands should be annotated, not hidden.
ShipHelp is in-frame.Press ? anywhere; esc closes the overlay.

Already decided

Menu-driven by stage, not one long checkbox list.
Each stage screen has a visible ← back row.
space toggles · enter activates the focused row.
Built with Bubble Tea/Lipgloss · scaffold in magus/.
Outputs an idempotent bash script.
79 commands across 5 stages today.