outside a . A terminal has
neither a border nor a fill round a line. */
.rp-tool, .rp-out {
display: block; background: none; border: 0; border-radius: 0;
font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;
}
/* The assistant's own words, and its tool calls: the round bullet at column
1, the text from column 3, wrapped continuations lined up under it. */
.rp-say, .rp-tool {
position: relative; margin: 0 0 .4rem; padding-left: 2ch;
white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: var(--t-text);
}
.rp-say::before, .rp-tool::before {
content: "\25CF"; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;
}
/* THE BULLET IS NOT ONE COLOUR. It is coded by what produced the line: the
assistant's own prose takes a white bullet, a tool call takes the tool's
colour -- blue for Bash, which is every tool call in this session. The
tool's NAME is bold and its argument is not. */
.rp-say::before { color: var(--t-text); }
.rp-tool::before { color: var(--t-tool); }
.rp-tool b { font-weight: 700; }
/* A TOOL CALL IS ONE ROW, ALWAYS, cut off with an ellipsis rather than
wrapped -- which is what the interface does with a command longer than the
window. It matters more than it looks: the commit message is 91 characters
and wrapped it ran to three rows on a phone, and six rows of broken shell is
the most intimidating thing a figure like this can show somebody who writes
none. */
.rp-tool { white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; }
/* An identifier quoted inside a sentence is tinted where the rest of the
sentence is not -- here the version a fix ships in, which is the only
identifier this session's prose contains. */
.rp-say .id { color: var(--t-ident); }
/* A tool result: two spaces, the hooked prefix, two spaces, then the output
from column 5 -- dim, because it is the machine talking and not the
assistant. It arrives whole. Nothing here is ever typed out. */
.rp-out {
position: relative; margin: -.3rem 0 .55rem; padding-left: 5ch;
color: var(--t-dim);
white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
.rp-out::before { content: "\23BF"; position: absolute; left: 2ch; top: 0; }
/* THE REAL INTERFACE COLLAPSES TOOL OUTPUT BY DEFAULT: it prints the call, and
under it one dim line reading the number of rows it is not showing. This
figure collapses the same way, and every count is the exact number of lines
the capture holds and this figure does not show. Two results carry one line
out of the collapse, and each is the one line of its capture that decides
something: the measurement, because a measurement being taken is the
project's whole argument, and `Reported success!`, which is the moment the
fix stops being local. */
.rp-out .trunc { color: var(--t-dim); }
.rp-out .ok { color: var(--t-ok); }
/* Between passes. The pane empties and this line holds alone for a second and
a half, so a reader arriving in the middle of the second pass does not spend
it reconciling two sessions that are the same session. It is the figure's
own mark, bracketed, because no terminal prints it. */
.rp-restart { margin: 0; color: var(--t-dim); font-style: italic; display: none; }
.rp[data-play][data-restart] .rp-restart { display: block; }
/* -- the working indicator ------------------------------------------------
The part a still frame cannot show. One blank line above it, column 1, and
it sits under the transcript for the whole turn. It is aria-hidden: it
carries no fact, and read aloud it would be noise between the sentences that
do. One line of room is kept whether or not anything is in it, so the input
box below never moves when the turn ends.
WHAT IS NOT IN IT: the elapsed clock and the token count the interface
prints beside the verb. Both are real and both were dropped -- a number
climbing while nothing else moves is the figure saying "this took effort".
What the turn cost is said once, at the end, in the past tense. */
.rp-work {
visibility: hidden; min-height: 1.4em;
margin: .5rem .8rem .2rem; color: var(--t-assistant);
}
.rp[data-play][data-working] .rp-work { visibility: visible; }
/* The frame cell is always two columns wide, whatever glyph is in it. That
fixed box is what stops the verb twitching when a frame measures wider. */
.rp-frame { display: inline-block; width: 2ch; text-align: left; }
.rp-verb { white-space: pre; }
/* Three cells of brighter ink crossing the verb, one whole cell at a time. A
gradient would be smoother and therefore wrong: the real one can only
address whole character cells. */
.rp-verb .lit { color: var(--t-shimmer); }
/* Two full-width rules and nothing else: no verticals, no corners. Drawn as
1px borders in base.css, never as box-drawing characters -- on a fallback
font those stop tiling and the column drifts. */
.rp-input { margin: .2rem .8rem 0; flex: none; }
.rp-line {
padding-left: 2ch; text-indent: -2ch;
white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;
}
/* The chevron's gap is the literal space after it plus the negative indent,
as it was captured. `.mt-input .ps` brings .6ch of margin for the crop on
the other two pages, where there is no indent to answer it. */
.rp-line .ps { color: var(--t-dim); margin-right: 0; }
/* The hint row under the lower rule, and WHICH hint belongs when. A finished
session that still offers to interrupt something is a line no session ever
printed: while a turn runs the row reads `esc to interrupt`, and when
nothing is running it reads `? for shortcuts`. With the script off nothing
is running, so the idle hint is the one the static transcript carries. */
.rp-hint { margin: .1rem .8rem .55rem; color: var(--t-dim); font-size: 12px; }
.rp-hint .busy { display: none; }
.rp[data-play][data-working] .rp-hint .busy { display: inline; }
.rp[data-play][data-working] .rp-hint .idle { display: none; }
/* What a turn leaves behind when it ends. The indicator does not simply
vanish -- it is replaced, IN PLACE, by a line saying how long the turn took,
and that line stays in the scrollback. They used to be stacked, and the
figure grew by a line at the exact moment it was supposed to be settling.
The number is not chosen: the script writes the elapsed time its own
timeline produced, floored the way the counter above it floors. */
.rp-worked {
display: none; min-height: 1.4em;
margin: .5rem .8rem .2rem; color: var(--t-dim);
}
/* U+273B, and it is one of the twelve the indicator actually draws -- which
matters, because this line REPLACES that indicator in the same cell. Its
predecessor was in no frame of it, and at 12px on a phone it painted nothing
at all. */
.rp-worked .g { display: inline-block; width: 2ch; color: var(--t-assistant); }
.rp[data-play][data-worked] .rp-worked { display: block; }
.rp[data-play][data-worked] .rp-work { display: none; }
/* The block cursor is not a separate box that could push the line about: it is
the NEXT cell, painted. It stays solid while characters are arriving -- a
caret that blinks through its own typing is the tell. */
.rp[data-play] .rp-line .ch { visibility: hidden; }
.rp[data-play] .rp-line .ch.on { visibility: visible; }
.rp[data-play] .rp-line .ch.cur {
visibility: visible; background: var(--t-text); color: transparent;
display: inline-block; width: 1ch;
}
.rp[data-play][data-idle] .rp-line .ch.cur { animation: rp-blink 1s steps(1, end) infinite; }
@keyframes rp-blink { 50% { opacity: 0; } }
/* Nothing appears until the script says so, and only then. */
.rp[data-play] [data-step] { display: none; }
.rp[data-play] [data-step].on { display: block; }
@media (max-width: 700px) {
.frame.rp { font-size: 12px; }
.rp[data-play] .rp-flow { height: 26rem; }
}
/* -- under a figure ------------------------------------------------------- */
.fig { margin: 0; }
/* NOTHING IS WRITTEN UNDER A FIGURE ANY MORE -- the pictures say it, and a
line repeating them scored zero. What is left is the button, and the button
is itself hidden unless the reader has asked for no motion or the figure has
run out. So the strip carries NO margin of its own: an empty caption that
still pushed the next step down would be spacing for nothing. The margin
arrives with the button, in the same rule that reveals it. */
.fig-foot {
display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: .8rem 1.2rem; flex-wrap: wrap;
}
/* THE LOOP HAS TO LOOK LIKE A LOOP. Both figures run for ever now -- they are
the content of this page, not decoration beside it -- and a restart that
simply swaps the screen reads as a glitch: somebody looking away for a second
cannot tell whether they missed something or whether the figure moved on its
own. So the frame dims while it rewinds, and comes back up half a second
before it starts again: you see it RETURN, then go.
Opacity and not display: the box keeps its size, so nothing below it jumps.
And it is a transition rather than an animation, so the reduced-motion block
further down can stop it with the rest -- there, neither timeline arms at
all, and a figure that never rewinds never dims. */
/* Named on the class and not on an id, because two pages carry a replay now
and an id cannot be in two places. The usage page's gesture figure keeps its
own pair beside this one: it rewinds the same way and is not a session. */
.rp { transition: opacity .52s ease; }
.rp[data-rewind] { opacity: .16; }
/* AND THE RESTART IS SAID, NOT ONLY SHOWN. Reviewed on the live site: the
dim-and-return reads as a restart once you already know the figure loops,
and not before. So a badge appears in the middle of the frame for exactly as
long as the frame is dimmed, and disappears with it.
IT IS OUTSIDE THE FRAME IN THE MARKUP, and it has to be: opacity applies to
a whole subtree, so a badge inside the frame would fade to .16 along with
everything it is there to explain.
The circular arrow is the retry glyph of every icon set there is -- the
wrong drawing for a deploy, which is why the marker between two steps uses
an arrow out of a line, and exactly the right one here. Same two paths,
drawn by us, owed to nobody.
Nothing appears for a reader who asked for no motion: neither figure ever
rewinds there, so neither ever carries the attribute this hangs off. */
.fig { position: relative; }
.restart {
position: absolute; left: 50%; top: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
display: flex; align-items: center; gap: .6rem;
padding: .55rem 1.05rem .55rem .8rem;
border-radius: 999px;
background: var(--bg); border: 1px solid var(--line);
box-shadow: var(--shadow);
color: var(--dim); font: 600 .95rem/1 var(--sans);
opacity: 0; transition: opacity .3s ease;
pointer-events: none; white-space: nowrap;
}
.restart svg { flex: none; width: 1.25rem; height: 1.25rem; color: var(--accent); }
.fig > [data-rewind] ~ .restart { opacity: 1; }
/* IT HAS TO BE READ, NOT GLIMPSED. Reviewed on the live site: a badge that
appears and goes inside a second is not understood, it is only noticed. So
three things, and the three of them are the answer to that one remark: the
gap between two passes goes from 1.6s to 2.6s, the badge SAYS the word
instead of leaving a glyph to carry it alone, and the arrow turns once --
one turn, at the speed of the pause, not a spinner. A spinner would say
"wait"; this says "it is going round again", which is the truth.
The turn is an animation, so the page's own reduced-motion rule stops it
with everything else -- and there, no figure ever rewinds, so nothing of
this is ever on screen anyway. */
@keyframes ap-restart-turn {
from { transform: rotate(0deg); }
to { transform: rotate(360deg); }
}
.fig > [data-rewind] ~ .restart svg { animation: ap-restart-turn 1.6s ease-in-out; }
.replay {
display: none; flex: none;
font: 600 .85rem/1 var(--sans); color: var(--text);
background: var(--bg-soft); border: 1px solid var(--control-line);
border-radius: 999px; padding: .5rem .95rem; cursor: pointer;
}
.replay:hover { border-color: var(--accent); color: var(--accent); }
/* Shown when the figure has finished, and shown at once when the reader has
asked for no motion -- in that case nothing plays unless they press it. */
[data-done] ~ .fig-foot .replay,
[data-quiet] ~ .fig-foot .replay { display: inline-block; }
/* THE COPY BUTTON IS NOT A REPLAY: it is always there, because what it copies
is always there. Same shape, so the strip reads as one kind of thing.
It lives in the caption and NOT in the frame, because the frame is
aria-hidden -- a control inside it would be a control nobody using a screen
reader could reach. */
.fig-foot .copy {
display: inline-block; flex: none;
font: 600 .85rem/1 var(--sans); color: var(--text);
background: var(--bg-soft); border: 1px solid var(--control-line);
border-radius: 999px; padding: .5rem .95rem; cursor: pointer;
}
.fig-foot .copy:hover { border-color: var(--accent); color: var(--accent); }
.fig-foot .copy:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid var(--accent); outline-offset: 3px; }
.fig-foot:has(.copy) { margin-top: .95rem; }
@media (min-width: 48rem) {
.fig-foot:has(.copy) { margin-top: 1.7rem; }
}
[data-done] ~ .fig-foot,
[data-quiet] ~ .fig-foot { margin-top: .95rem; }
@media (min-width: 48rem) {
/* Clear of the mat the frame paints around itself. */
[data-done] ~ .fig-foot,
[data-quiet] ~ .fig-foot { margin-top: 1.7rem; }
}