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th code: distinct user-turn blocks + animated working avatar - #771
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…h avatar The user could not tell their own turns from the agent's: the only difference was a 'You:' vs 'Smooth:' label. User turns are now a block (coral bar, ❯ glyph, bold text) that reads by shape under NO_COLOR, and tool-call lines are indented and dim so the answer stands out. While a turn runs, a 3-row animated Big Smooth from the splash art sits above the status bar with the activity and elapsed time. It only borrows preview rows, hides when idle, runs at 5 fps off the turn clock, and is off under NO_COLOR or TH_REDUCED_MOTION / SMOOTH_REDUCED_MOTION. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…asured 12ms) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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th codethe only difference between your turns and Big Smooth's was aYou:vsSmooth:label, and nothing on screen showed he was working while a turn ran.Solution
▌accent bar,❯prompt glyph on the first row (continuations aligned under it), bold default-foreground text. The shape carries the difference, so it survivesNO_COLOR, and the default foreground keeps it readable on light and dark terminals. A blank line still separates it from the reply.crates/smooth-code/src/avatar.rs): a 3-row mini of the splash avatar (th-a67752 legend) above the status bar, withthinking/running <tool>/writingand an elapsed timer. The glint sweeps across the shades, 4 frames at 5 fps, with the frame taken from the turn clock. It only takes rows from the spacer/preview (never the input box or checklist), and is dropped whole when there is no room. Hidden when idle. Off underNO_COLORandTH_REDUCED_MOTION=1/SMOOTH_REDUCED_MOTION=1.AppState::sync_turn_clockruns once per tick, so every place that flipsthinkingkeeps the clock right without being touched.Verification
cargo test -p smooai-smooth-code: 381 passed. New tests cover the user block's shape and styles, the dim and indented tool lines, avatar start/stop, the turn clock, NO_COLOR/reduced-motion gating, frame timing, activity, layout (the avatar never moves the input or status), and a full TestBackend render: the avatar is visible during a turn and gone after, with the composer on the same row.Pearls th-4a7236 (A), th-e93d9e (B).
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