fix: align interface ellipses and cron shutdown

.changeset/stop-cron-after-close.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@pymodel/pythinker-code": patch
+---
+
+Prevent cron ticks from continuing after an agent shuts down.

.changeset/use-unicode-ellipsis.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@pymodel/pythinker-code": patch
+---
+
+Use the Unicode ellipsis in terminal status and truncation text.

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/commands/plugins.ts

@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ async function installFromPanel(
   if (official) {
     panel.setInstalling(truncateForStatus(label));
   } else {
-    host.showStatus(`Installing or updating ${label} from marketplace...`);
+    host.showStatus(`Installing or updating ${label} from marketplace…`);
   }
   host.state.ui.requestRender();
   try {

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/compaction.ts

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ export class CompactionComponent extends Container {
       return `${bullet}${label}`;
     }
     const bullet = this.blinkOn ? currentTheme.fg('text', STATUS_BULLET) : '  ';
-    const label = currentTheme.boldFg('primary', 'Compacting context...');
+    const label = currentTheme.boldFg('primary', 'Compacting context…');
     const tip = this.tip ? currentTheme.fg('textDim', ` · Tip: ${this.tip}`) : '';
     return `${bullet}${label}${tip}`;
   }

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/question-dialog.ts

@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ export class QuestionDialogComponent extends Container implements Focusable {
         appendWrapped(lines, '   ', '   ', bodyLine, renderWidth, dim);
       }
       if (bodyLines.length > visibleBodyLines.length) {
-        lines.push(dim(`   ... ${String(bodyLines.length - visibleBodyLines.length)} more lines`));
+        lines.push(dim(`   … ${String(bodyLines.length - visibleBodyLines.length)} more lines`));
       }
     }
 

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/dialogs/session-picker.ts

@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ export class SessionPickerComponent extends Container implements Focusable {
     if (this.loading) {
       lines.push(currentTheme.boldFg('primary', truncateToWidth(title, width, ELLIPSIS)));
       lines.push(
-        currentTheme.fg('textMuted', truncateToWidth('Loading sessions...', width, ELLIPSIS)),
+        currentTheme.fg('textMuted', truncateToWidth('Loading sessions…', width, ELLIPSIS)),
       );
       lines.push(currentTheme.fg('primary', '─'.repeat(width)));
       return lines;

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/agent-dynamic-workflow-progress.ts

@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ const AGENT_DYNAMIC_WORKFLOW_LEFT_INDENT = ' ';
 const AGENT_DYNAMIC_WORKFLOW_RIGHT_GAP = 1;
 const AGENT_DYNAMIC_WORKFLOW_NON_GRID_LINES = 6;
 const COMPACT_TERMINAL_MARK_WIDTH = 1;
-const ORCHESTRATING_LABEL = 'Orchestrating...';
-const PROMPTING_LABEL = 'Prompting...';
-const WORKING_LABEL = 'Working...';
+const ORCHESTRATING_LABEL = 'Orchestrating…';
+const PROMPTING_LABEL = 'Prompting…';
+const WORKING_LABEL = 'Working…';
 const COMPLETED_LABEL = 'Completed.';
 const FAILED_LABEL = 'Failed.';
 const ABORTED_LABEL = 'Aborted.';
 const CANCELLED_LABEL = 'Cancelled.';
-const QUEUED_LABEL = 'Queued...';
-const SUSPENDED_LABEL = 'Rate limited...';
+const QUEUED_LABEL = 'Queued…';
+const SUSPENDED_LABEL = 'Rate limited…';
 const RESUMED_ITEM_LABEL = '(resumed)';
 const CANCELLED_LABEL_DARKEN_FACTOR = 0.72;
 const AGENT_ID_TOKENS = [

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/shell-run.ts

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const TIMER_INTERVAL_MS = 1000;
 const MAX_COMBINED_CHARS = 256 * 1024;
 const KEEP_COMBINED_CHARS = 64 * 1024;
 
-const TRUNCATED_RUNNING_NOTICE = '... (output truncated)';
+const TRUNCATED_RUNNING_NOTICE = '… (output truncated)';
 
 /**
  * Live view for a user-initiated `!` shell command. Two phases:

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/thinking.ts

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export class ThinkingComponent implements Component {
         rendered = [];
       } else {
         const contentLines = this.renderContent(width);
-        const hint = `... (${String(contentLines.length)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`;
+        const hint = `… (${String(contentLines.length)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`;
         const prefix = this.showMarker ? currentTheme.fg('textDim', STATUS_BULLET) : MESSAGE_INDENT;
         const styledHint = currentTheme.fg(
           'textDim',

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/tool-call.ts

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ function truncateArgValue(key: string, value: string): string {
     // still tell which file is being touched.
     return '…' + value.slice(value.length - (MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 1));
   }
-  return value.slice(0, MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 3) + '...';
+  return value.slice(0, MAX_ARG_LENGTH - 1) + '…';
 }
 
 function makeWorkspaceRelativePath(filePath: string, workspaceDir: string | undefined): string {
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
     if (this.result !== undefined || text.length === 0) return;
     this.liveOutput += text;
     if (this.liveOutput.length > MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS) {
-      this.liveOutput = `[...truncated]\n${this.liveOutput.slice(
+      this.liveOutput = `[…truncated]\n${this.liveOutput.slice(
         this.liveOutput.length - MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS,
       )}`;
     }
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
     const existingOutput = options?.replace === true ? '' : (activity?.output ?? '');
     let output = existingOutput + text;
     if (output.length > MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS) {
-      output = `[...truncated]\n${output.slice(output.length - MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS)}`;
+      output = `[…truncated]\n${output.slice(output.length - MAX_LIVE_OUTPUT_CHARS)}`;
     }
     this.upsertSubToolActivity(id, name, args, activity?.phase ?? 'ongoing', output);
     this.rebuildContent();
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
       const suffix = this.hiddenSubCallCount > 1 ? 's' : '';
       this.addChild(
         new Text(
-          currentTheme.italic(currentTheme.dim(`    ${String(this.hiddenSubCallCount)} more tool call${suffix} ...`)),
+          currentTheme.italic(currentTheme.dim(`    ${String(this.hiddenSubCallCount)} more tool call${suffix} …`)),
           0,
           0,
         ),
@@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
         this.addChild(
           new Text(
             currentTheme.dim(
-              `... (${String(remaining)} more lines, ${String(allLines.length)} total, ctrl+o to expand)`,
+              `… (${String(remaining)} more lines, ${String(allLines.length)} total, ctrl+o to expand)`,
             ),
             2,
             0,
@@ -2130,7 +2130,7 @@ export class ToolCallComponent extends Container {
       const elapsedSeconds =
         startedAtMs === undefined ? 0 : Math.max(0, Math.floor((Date.now() - startedAtMs) / 1000));
       const target = filePath.length > 0 ? ` for ${filePath}` : '';
-      const progress = `Preparing changes${target}... ${formatByteSize(bytes)} · ${formatElapsed(
+      const progress = `Preparing changes${target}… ${formatByteSize(bytes)} · ${formatElapsed(
         elapsedSeconds,
       )} elapsed`;
       this.addChild(new Text(currentTheme.dim(progress), 2, 0));

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/messages/tool-renderers/truncated.ts

@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ export class TruncatedOutputComponent implements Component {
     if (this.tail) {
       const shown = contentLines.slice(contentLines.length - this.maxLines);
       return [
-        this.renderHint(width, `... (${String(remaining)} earlier lines)`),
+        this.renderHint(width, `… (${String(remaining)} earlier lines)`),
         ...shown,
       ];
     }
 
     const shown = contentLines.slice(0, this.maxLines);
     const hint = this.expandHint
-      ? `... (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`
-      : `... (${String(remaining)} more lines)`;
+      ? `… (${String(remaining)} more lines, ctrl+o to expand)`
+      : `… (${String(remaining)} more lines)`;
     return [...shown, this.renderHint(width, hint)];
   }
 }

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/components/panes/btw-panel.ts

@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export class BtwPanelComponent implements Component {
       lines.push(...this.renderTurn(turn, width));
     }
     if (this.turns.length === 0) {
-      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Ready for a side question...'));
+      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Ready for a side question…'));
     }
     lines.push(...this.renderTransientNotices(width));
     return this.fitBodyLines(lines);
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ export class BtwPanelComponent implements Component {
           : thinkingLines;
       lines.push(...visibleThinking);
     } else if (turn.error === undefined) {
-      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Waiting for answer...'));
+      lines.push(chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.textDim)('Waiting for answer…'));
     }
     if (turn.error !== undefined) {
       const error = chalk.hex(currentTheme.palette.error)(turn.error);

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/utils/background-agent-status.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ function normalizeBackgroundField(value: string | undefined): string | undefined
   const collapsed = value.trim().replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ');
   if (collapsed.length === 0) return undefined;
   if (collapsed.length <= MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH) return collapsed;
-  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH - 3)}...`;
+  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_BACKGROUND_FIELD_LENGTH - 1)}…`;
 }
 
 export function formatBackgroundAgentTranscript(

apps/pythinker-code/src/tui/utils/background-task-status.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function truncate(value: string | undefined): string | undefined {
   const collapsed = value.trim().replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' ');
   if (collapsed.length === 0) return undefined;
   if (collapsed.length <= MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH) return collapsed;
-  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH - 3)}...`;
+  return `${collapsed.slice(0, MAX_DETAIL_LENGTH - 1)}…`;
 }
 
 export type BackgroundTaskTranscriptPhase = 'started' | 'updated' | 'terminal';

apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/activity-pane.test.ts

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ describe('updateActivityPane terminal progress', () => {
       expect(state.activitySpinner).not.toBeNull();
       expect(state.activityContainer.children).toHaveLength(0);
       const rendered = strip(progress.render(80).join('\n'));
-      expect(rendered).toContain('Working...');
+      expect(rendered).toContain('Working…');
       expect(BRAILLE_SPINNER_FRAMES.some((frame) => rendered.includes(frame))).toBe(true);
 
       state.activitySpinner?.instance.stop();
@@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ describe('updateActivityPane terminal progress', () => {
       expect(state.activitySpinner).not.toBeNull();
       expect(state.activityContainer.children).toHaveLength(1);
       const output = strip(progress.render(80).join('\n'));
-      expect(output).toContain('  Working...');
-      expect(output).not.toContain('⣷ Working...');
+      expect(output).toContain('  Working…');
+      expect(output).not.toContain('⣷ Working…');
 
       state.activitySpinner?.instance.stop();
       driver.sessionEventHandler.clearAgentDynamicWorkflowProgress();

apps/pythinker-code/test/tui/components/dialogs/compaction.test.ts

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const lines = component.render(120).map(strip);
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
-      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context...');
+      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context…');
       expect(text).toContain('  keep the recent files only');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const lines = component.render(120).map(strip);
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
-      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context... · Tip: ctrl+s: steer mid-turn');
+      expect(text).toContain('Compacting context… · Tip: ctrl+s: steer mid-turn');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
     }
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
       const text = lines.join('\n');
 
       expect(text).toContain('Compaction cancelled');
-      expect(text).not.toContain('Compacting context...');
+      expect(text).not.toContain('Compacting context…');
     } finally {
       component.dispose();
     }
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ describe('CompactionComponent', () => {
 
     try {
       const headerOf = (): string => {
-        const line = component.render(120).find((l) => strip(l).includes('Compacting context...'));
+        const line = component.render(120).find((l) => strip(l).includes('Compacting context…'));
         if (line === undefined) throw new Error('header line not found');
         return line;
       };